Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair .
2 Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) .
3 For at least half a century , as outlined in Chapter 1 , the dominant movement of population and employment at this ‘ two Britains ’ scale has been from North to South .
4 Determined to arrange a meeting to discuss it ( postponed as it has been from summer to autumn , autumn to December , December to ‘ early in the the New Year ’ and so on … ) , she rang the Scottish Office direct in an attempt to find out the proposed date of revelation and publication .
5 It can , therefore , be seen that the first test which the pursuer must meet is in relation to liability .
6 He had been under pressure to water down the doctrine of collegiality .
7 Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . "
8 Accordingly , I do not derive much assistance from the definitions of natural justice which have been from time to time used , but , whatever standard is adopted , one essential is that the person concerned should have a reasonable opportunity of presenting his case .
9 Again these changes have been in response to legislation and have taken a number of forms .
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