Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these are given to us as actual temptations , there is no less of temptation in the resounding sentence that is the last but one of the portrait . |
| 2 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 3 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 4 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 5 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 6 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 7 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 8 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 9 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 10 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 11 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 12 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 13 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |
| 14 | Each term is usually given together with terms which are related to it in one of a number of ways . |
| 15 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 16 | Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’ |
| 17 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 18 | You 're talking to it at this very moment , you 're talking it out , you 're talking it down , and you want my help . |
| 19 | We 're broadcasting to you between ten and twelve every day this week , Thursday erm being our final day of course . |
| 20 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 21 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 22 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 23 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Waugh acknowledged that he was once again freezing the Ayr Road project even although money had been allocated to it in 1991 . |
| 25 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 26 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 27 | People are coming to us in great distress . |
| 28 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 29 | In his report Layfield concluded that there was only a one in forty chance that a coal station would be cheaper than Sizewell B. By the time that the then Energy Minister , Peter Walker , gave his seal of approval to the project in 1987 the odds had been reduced to one in seven . |
| 30 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |