Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] be [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 2 | In these days of high land values and intensive land use it is comforting to the conservationists among us to see areas such as Threipmuir Common being designated as a Site of Special Interest and thus being left to nature . |
| 3 | ( 1987 ) report that 20 per cent of Americans aged 65 and over were admitted to hospital in 1986 ; this represents 10.8 million hospital admissions . |
| 4 | It derives too from the emotional dynamic , the mood sinking into a black hole of a middle section with cries on the brass alternating with eerie undulating woodwind passages , and gradually being restored to serenity . |
| 5 | In 1609 or 1610 Larkin painted the only picture which can as yet be linked to documentary evidence : a portrait of Edward Herbert , first Baron Herbert of Cherbury [ q.v. ] , |