Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] be [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE employees than ever are committed to Courtaulds ' aim of being faster , better , more distinctive . |
| 2 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 3 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a subject on which judges need , and should have , expert assistance from a clinical psychologist and not be left to flounder through what may be an ill-informed and perfunctory form of inquisition before the child gives evidence . ’ |
| 5 | When considering how demographic change may affect the demand and supply of health care it is important to remember that such changes in demand will affect all the major medical specialisms and not be confined to departments dealing exclusively with older people . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nasser 's father belonged to this growing social stratum , running a post office in Alexandria when Nasser was born and later being transferred to Khatatba , a poor village on the edge of the delta . |
| 10 | Yes , what 's , what 's happened if we were at Sandhurst Auction it would go to Reading and then be re-directed to Aldershot and then |
| 11 | Lore went as a receptionist to an army hospital in Abergele and then was posted to Canterbury , where she worked for Personnel Selection . |
| 12 | As these plateaus are more buoyant than normal oceanic crust they would tend to resist subduction and therefore be accreted to continents lying along plate margins . |
| 13 | 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. ] , |