Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He further averred that the fact that he had not instructed Macfie & Alexander to send the offer to sell was known to the pursuer 's agents , Ferguson & Forster , since Mr Rae and Mr Alex D. Forster , the partners of Macfie & Alexander , were also the whole partners of Ferguson & Forster . |
| 2 | If taken over an extended period , however , patients may start to prove these remedies but fail to realize that new symptoms which they are beginning to experience are linked to the remedy which they are taking . |
| 3 | Reaction time has been found to be extended in cases of brain damage ( Costa , 1962 ) and it may reasonably be thought that latency to respond is related to the degree of damage . |
| 4 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've taken scrapings of those areas where the Scapegoat appears to have been secured to the frame . |
| 6 | A mortgage by Bishop Eadnoth of Crediton from 1018 ( S 1387 ) is said to have been declared to the borough meetings of Exeter , Totnes , Lydford and Barnstaple . |
| 7 | The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled . |
| 8 | The only member of the former Board of Guardians to have been appointed to the committee was William Lansberry , who had been its chairman , and he was immediately put on a sub-committee to appoint a Public Assistance Officer . |
| 9 | If it is that the Court of Appeal should have relisted his case , then his application would have to have been made to the Commission by March 1991 . |
| 10 | Ellwood et al. ( 1980 ) , however , argued that when the maximum depth of burial ( estimated at 12 km ) and age are taken into account , the sediments underlying the Piedmont , though not as altered as the surface rocks , are likely to have been raised to the greenschist phase of metamorphism and so presumably have little remaining hydrocarbon potential . |
| 11 | The earlier and well-known technique of framing up a loose panel appears to have been sacrificed to the whimsy of fashion . |
| 12 | But if today Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the few women to have been admitted to the art historical canon under the banner of ‘ greatness ’ , in her day she never won the critical acclaim she sought . |
| 13 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 14 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 15 | One can hardly put it stronger than that , because a certain imprecision appears to have been attached to the word from the beginning . |
| 16 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 17 | After the initial failure to sell Austin Rover and Leyland Vehicles the government continued to negotiate for the sale of Leyland Bus , which was to have been sold to the Laird Group , the second largest UK bus manufacturer . |
| 18 | In these same excavations a square external tower was also examined ; it was thought to have been added to the wall at a later date . |
| 19 | The ‘ right ’ of orgasm for women ( as well as for men ) seemed to have been added to the list of the ‘ natural rights of man ’ which the fathers of the Enlightenment seemed to have overlooked ! |
| 20 | a capital sum may be paid directly to the settlor ; 2. a capital sum may be paid indirectly to the settlor ; 3. a capital sum may be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if a sum is paid to any third party at the settlor 's direction ; 4. a capital sum shall be deemed to be paid to the settlor if the sum is paid to any third party by virtue of an assignment by the settlor of his right to receive it ; and 5. a capital sum shall be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if it is otherwise paid or applied by them for the benefit of the settlor . |
| 21 | a capital sum may be paid directly to the settlor ; 2. a capital sum may be paid indirectly to the settlor ; 3. a capital sum may be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if a sum is paid to any third party at the settlor 's direction ; 4. a capital sum shall be deemed to be paid to the settlor if the sum is paid to any third party by virtue of an assignment by the settlor of his right to receive it ; and 5. a capital sum shall be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if it is otherwise paid or applied by them for the benefit of the settlor . |
| 22 | Little heed seems to have been paid to the argument that before stepping into an airliner everyone knows a slight risk is involved . |
| 23 | Also , one of the sums said to have been paid to the enemy in either 991 ( £10,000 ) or 994 ( £16,000 ) may be wrong , as a surviving treaty which almost certainly belongs to one of these years ( and most likely to 994 ) gives a figure of £22,000 . |
| 24 | Even quarrelsome members of the leadership , like William Joyce , appear to have been attracted to the movement by such motives . |
| 25 | McCoist looked to have been hauled to the ground at the beginning of the second half , though not in the eyes of the official who also booked John Brown and the Belgian , Creva . |
| 26 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that Zhu Rongji , the reformist Vice-Premier and former mayor of Shanghai , Zou Jiahua , the conservative Vice-Premier and Minister in charge of the State Planning Commission , and Yang Baibing , secretariat member , Central Military Commission secretary-general and younger brother of President Yang Shangkun , were all to have been promoted to the politburo . |
| 27 | Percentage identity to pou[c] is shown to the right of each sequence . |
| 28 | The matter was thrown into further confusion , however , when leave to appeal was granted to the minority shareholders . |
| 29 | Originally the class of persons entitled to claim was limited to the wife , husband , parent and child of the deceased but over the years the classes have been extended to enable all those classes mentioned in the 1976 Act to claim . |
| 30 | Whether a particular chemical reaction is likely to occur is related to the change in free energy involved . |