Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] to some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hastings has been subjected to some stern criticism since his unfortunate goal-kicking blunders on the far from immaculate surface at the Parc des Princes 16 days ago . |
| 2 | Sharpe remembered that Lucille , who had loyally left France to stay at his side , had been invited to some fashionable and expensive ball that was supposed to take place in Brussels this night . |
| 3 | Examination of records available on smoking related activity in the control schools indicated that pupils in half of the schools had been exposed to some incidental and unplanned smoking education through events such as No Smoking Day or through associated teaching in home economics or biology . |
| 4 | His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson . |
| 5 | By the turn of the year , Ellison , who had been linked to some big-name clubs , was looking jaded . |
| 6 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |