Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we are to be fixed to the Deutschmark , that should be an agreed and acknowledged policy . |
| 2 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 3 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 4 | Sid , being unlikely to be displayed to the company , had been excused Dickensian dress . |
| 5 | Move the cursor onto the very first letter of the paragraph which is to be joined to the end of the paragraph above it . |
| 6 | He expects the effort to eliminate duplicated research and development efforts and allow resources to be transferred to the development of middleware technologies . |
| 7 | Arms began to be transferred to the BKR under local arrangements ; they even acquired some tanks . |
| 8 | If the Walled Garden and Garden Cottage were to be transferred to the ownership of Oatridge Agricultural because of the previous set out in the above piece of legislation this would have very serious consequences to the capital value of what can only be described as the department 's most valued property asset . |
| 9 | The King , having word of this in advance , provided him with a signet ring which he showed and which entitled the matter to be transferred to the King 's presence , where the accusers were roundly rebuked . |
| 10 | The working hypothesis reached by the counsellor has to be transferred to the counsellees , not through direct transmission , but by helping them achieve their own insights . |
| 11 | Some patients have had to be transferred to the R-A-F hospital at Wroughton . |
| 12 | In summary , the ideal situation is to be transferred to the US by your employer . |
| 13 | On-going contracts at Warren Spring are likely to be transferred to the NETC , ensuring that work currently underway will continue , including Government contracts such as those for air pollution monitoring . |
| 14 | Mr Mason 's fountain had to be transferred to the centre of Bondgate and replaced by the Tubwell torrentor as featured in the inaugural Fountain of the Week . |
| 15 | He was glad to be transferred to the Army Education Corps after about a year , to discourse , with the rank of sergeant , to soldiers on topics such as ‘ why Turkey will remain neutral ’ , ‘ why Japan has entered the war ’ and so on . |
| 16 | However , where a defendant does not reside or carry on business within the district of the court and he desires the action to be transferred to the court for the district in which he resides or carries on business , he may , after delivering a defence , counterclaim , or request for time for payment , apply ex parte in writing for an order to transfer the action to that court . |
| 17 | It is possible for some urethral discharge from the penis to be transferred to the seat if the male is sitting down ; and if a second male should accidentally touch the same part of the seat soon afterwards with his penis , then infection could be acquired . |
| 18 | The Lithuanian party leader complained similarly of the ‘ administrative diktat' of higher bodies and called for more economic , social and especially ecological powers to be transferred to the republics . |
| 19 | One of the common problems encountered in assets sales is determining how the customer and supplier contracts entered into by the vendor are to be transferred to the purchaser . |
| 20 | So when he was told he was going to be transferred to the Sheriff 's Wayside Honor Farm at Castaic , he told reporters , ‘ I 've been pretty happy in the tank here . |
| 21 | Were such laws to be extended to the treatment of humans as well as animals , as suggested by the Williams Committee , the international community might find such an example more appealing . |
| 22 | The combination of the two policies , which are likely to be extended to the rest of Britain , means that land which can support far greater numbers and variety of trees will be available to foresters . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister was heard in silence , and I expect the same courtesy to be extended to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 24 | Announcing that Scottish companies and local authorities had raised more than £230,000 , George Hunter , the Games Council secretary , said that this would allow the time limit for achieving qualifying standards to be extended to the end of December . |
| 25 | Fitness rates in the test schools have already been raised and the project is to be extended to the city 's 50 other primary and special schools . |
| 26 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council a request was made by local residents for the 30 mph speed limit in village to be extended to the section of Gubberford Lane beyond the railway bridge to take in the group of dwellings ending with Woodlands . |
| 27 | President Mitterrand inaugurated France 's high-speed train service between Paris and Lille , soon to be extended to the Channel tunnel . |
| 28 | Lord Donaldson is expected to be flown to the Flotta oil terminal in Scapa Flow where he will be shown a range of pollution fighting equipment which is kept on permanent standby . |
| 29 | BY SUGGESTING that women have a monopoly on being civilised , does Tony Parsons not open the door for double standards of judgment to be applied to the behaviour of women and men ? |
| 30 | We could specify in which hand the draw-sheet is to be held , which arm the nurse is to use to support the patient , the degree of tension to be applied to the draw-sheet to make it taut and smooth . |