Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 3 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 5 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 6 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 7 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 8 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 9 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 10 | A number of test cases on Sunday trading and the possible conflict with the treaty of Rome have already come before the European Court and all have been referred back to the various countries involved . |
| 11 | Project management , incorporating information management , within these programmes will ensure that they are carried out to the same high standard as our taxonomic and floristic research . |
| 12 | The once-scarlet , once-thick carpet in the foyer had been trodden down to a greasy thinness the exact shade of hard , encrusted blood . |
| 13 | First built at the time of Edward I , it has been occupied through to the present day . |
| 14 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 15 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 16 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | The execution of these ideas with regard to graphical presentation and production of an addictive shoot-em-up arcade game have been carried out to the highest professional standard . |
| 18 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 19 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 20 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 21 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |
| 22 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 23 | Contrary to speculation , the house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925 , but remains where it was designed to stand , the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence , a permanent record of a way of life between the wars . |
| 24 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to the full-time programme . |
| 25 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 26 | Work already done on ANDF has been turned over to the European Commission 's Open Microprocessor Initiative — a £40m effort to develop next-generation microprocessor and software technology ( UX Nos 381 , 315 ) . |
| 27 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 28 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 29 | The operating side of BR will continue to provide passenger services until they are franchised out to the private sector . |
| 30 | A NATIONAL treasure has been tracked down to a German museum after it was allegedly stolen by a man using a metal detector . |