Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was followed by a second resolution , proposed by Dent ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) and seconded by J Paul ( Ayrshire ) to the effect : That the matter of this Association be referred to a special committee consisting of the President of this Conference ( the Rev W B Sleight ) as Chairman , and twelve gentlemen ( six deaf and dumb and six hearing ) . |
| 2 | When might such a file be preferred to an inverted file for multiple-key processing ? |
| 3 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 4 | ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) . |
| 5 | Scargill hoped for a ‘ domino effect ’ , to be promoted if necessary by the type of mass picketing which had been perfected a decade earlier , and the National Executive supported him ; only three members voted for a proposal that the demand for a national strike be put to a national ballot . |
| 6 | Will their rights be transferred to a commercial company or will some other arrangement be made through the Government or CalMac ? |
| 7 | We have suggested a position close to the kitchen window and it could of course be converted to a raised bed or pool at a later date . |
| 8 | Both parties wish to enter into an agreement whereby category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings which include the most significant paintings of the Collection be loaned to a Spanish Foundation for their maintenance and public exhibition for a period of up to ten years . |
| 9 | In response to the new revelations and to the government 's reaction to the scandal , the ANC president Nelson Mandela renewed his call for the State President 's resignation and demanded that control of the security forces be surrendered to an interim government of national unity . |
| 10 | A fifth Summer of Love be confined to a four-day binge in August . |
| 11 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 12 | Not only will children be introduced to a broader range of thought and feeling , but — through looking at literature from different points of view — pupils should also be in a position to gain a better understanding of the cultural heritage of English literature itself . |
| 13 | Only differences between classes of individuals can in principle be attributed to a single cause . |
| 14 | Agreed that discussion be deferred to a later meeting , but the view was expressed that a register of RBGE EC research interests should be held by RMG through CW . |
| 15 | The letter demanded that air cleaning equipment be installed in coal-fired power plants in North Bohemia within two years and that power production be cut to a minimum whenever air pollution levels deteriorated . |