Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All my friends were going to college or getting jobs . |
| 2 | And , for hundreds of years , workers who were thought to be failing in their duties were subjected to imprisonment and other penalties . |
| 3 | Conscious of their position as women artists operating within a patriarchal society none of the women I spoke to believed their concerns were limited to gender ; factors of race and class , in addition to those of gender , informed the work . |
| 4 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 5 | Suspects were arrested and sometimes killed , while their families were subjected to intimidation . |
| 6 | Without training , all its efforts were doomed to failure . |
| 7 | We knocked them out of their rhythm and never allowed them to settle or sustain any momentum and I felt their frustrations were beginning to surface . |
| 8 | Many studies have correlated features of social organizations with ecology and shown that the strategies of their members are adapted to habitat conditions , often in very elaborate ways . |
| 9 | Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps , along with bureaucrats doing two weeks ' hard labour . |
| 10 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 11 | His shoes were shined to perfection . |
| 12 | his abilities are known to management and team alike and he is a man refreshed . |
| 13 | His grandparents were taken to hospital with fractures and burns after the accident on the A35 near Dorchester , Dorset . |
| 14 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
| 15 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 16 | The real advantage of all this is that if your fingers are trained to type /FS in order to save a file , the same command will still work in 1-2-3 for Windows . |
| 17 | Our proposals are confined to attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 18 | After the briefing our visitors were entertained to lunch and presented with a plaque to commemorate the visit . |
| 19 | Why is it , then , that so many of our constituents are coming to advice surgeries about bills that they can not afford to pay ? |
| 20 | There is another area in which our ways are beginning to part and that is weekly journalism — current affairs . |
| 21 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 22 | It 's not a big deal in the scheme of things but you get an awful lot of hassle when all your mates are going to university , or start bringing home the bacon . |