Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 2 | For example , we are treated to the results of a 10-year study of the foraging activity of a laboratory colony of Atta , information on the biology of the immense carpenter ant genus Camponotus and unique insights into the alkaloidal pharmacopoeia of fire ants . |
| 3 | He had been posted to the police in Asyut and had hated his time there . |
| 4 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 5 | The design had been calculated to the blocks of internal wall . |
| 6 | ‘ the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard , pestiferous and obscene , where malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed … where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate — here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here sow him in corruption , to be raised in corruption : an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , when Dickens alludes in Bleak House to ‘ a hemmed-in churchyard , pestiferous and obscene , whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed ’ , he is not being metaphorical . |
| 8 | More thought has also been given to the products on offer . |
| 9 | 2.11 If the Inspection does not take place or if following the Inspection the relevant Certificate is not issued the Landlord shall procure that the same is not subsequently issued unless notice has again been given to the Surveyors in accordance with clause 2.10 ( which procedure shall be repeated as often as necessary until the relevant Certificate is issued ) |
| 10 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 11 | In designing it , special consideration has been given to the needs of the disabled visitor . |
| 12 | Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ . |
| 13 | Further , the court can now rescind a reference of its own motion , notice having been given to the parties by the court of an intention to do so , giving the parties 14 days in which to lodge written objections . |
| 14 | In dry parts of the world , such as Australia , forest and bush fires are an important natural hazard and some attention has been given to the ways in which GIS might help examine their potential impacts . |
| 15 | As should have become clear , however , the main explanations within this shifting strand of thinking about politics and elites have been conducted primarily in the broad social and economic spheres : little attention has been given to the relations between states and people . |
| 16 | And an award has been given to the developers of Gloucester Docks . |
| 17 | Consideration has been given to the methods of disposal of land open to a vendor . |
| 18 | The future of the Cossacks had also been referred to the Chiefs of Staff by AFHQ on 17 May , and on the same day AFHQ had appealed to SHAEF to take them over . |
| 19 | The future of " Chetniks " and " Croats " had been referred to the Chiefs of Staff by AFHQ on 17 May , and on the same day AFHQ had issued the " Distone order " to Eighth Army . |
| 20 | Learners are exposed to the voices of children and adults , native and non-native speakers , and a number of different regional and national accents . |
| 21 | So it is important to remember that schools are not factories — however frequently we are told that they have to ‘ deliver ’ the curriculum , and however deliberately we are exposed to the pressures of competition and market forces . |
| 22 | All farmers are exposed to the vagaries of the weather and the ever-present risks of disease ; their economic viability depends on the natural advantages and disadvantages of terrain , position and climate . |
| 23 | Henk Vlug of the Dutch Plant Protection Service has suggested that the beetles are attracted to the fields by the odour of manure and lay their eggs in the slits . |
| 24 | About 200 horse attacks had been reported to the police by the time the mystery was brought to national attention by journalist Siewert Oholm 's TV programme Svar direkt on 25 February 1992 . |
| 25 | After disappearing for 48 hours the matter has been reported to the police in Punta del Este and Montevideo . |
| 26 | On a minor point about insurance , if you should be unfortunate in having money stolen from you , this will not be paid back by insurers unless the theft has been reported to the police in the particular country . |
| 27 | Section 312 Companies Act 1985 makes it unlawful for any compensation for loss of office to be made to a director of a company in connection with the transfer of all or any part of the company , unless the nature and particulars of the proposed payment have been disclosed to the members of the company and have been approved by the company . |
| 28 | As Brightman J said in United Sterling Corp Ltd v Felton and Mannion [ 1974 ] RPC 162 " This contractual obligation of fidelity … may prevent a skilled employee from giving his assistance to a competitor despite the fact that such assistance is provided by the employee in his own time and despite the fact that no information has been disclosed to the employees in confidence " . |
| 29 | There is no reason to suppose that such effects are confined to the victims of rape as traditionally defined : although sexual assaults vary in their degree , there may be many other forms of sexual assault which are serious enough to create such profound physical and psychological after-effects . |
| 30 | In contrast , the side chains of MeLeu9 and Abu2 are located to the sides of the binding pocket ( Fig. 2 ) and can accommodate a variety of side chains consistent with the structure/activity relationships . |