Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 2 | So her performance could n't be too low either — especially with the risk of being relegated to the brain-dead clerk-level . |
| 3 | Most crucially it means identifying the population which is at ‘ risk ’ of being exposed to the noxious or infectious agent via proximity or because of certain characteristics which make them more vulnerable . |
| 4 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 5 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 6 | It has the unique distinction among school magazines of being confined to the closed case of the British Library . |
| 7 | of being shown to the remote valve arrangement , and the fact that they already want to carry over R eight onto R three with minimal changes |
| 8 | Sick of being subjected to the Argentinian 's taunts Johnson simply replied ‘ Come near me sunshine and you 'll be swallowing your teeth . ’ |
| 9 | Instead of being recuperated to the masculine gender , though , as has happened to words like astronaut , person has become a kind of euphemism for woman . |
| 10 | It is like being attached to the free end of a rope ; a gentle pull at one end means a vicious kick at the other . |
| 11 | It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions , so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages , demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter . |
| 12 | That influence , far from being confined to the former graveyard of St Giles ' , has spread and is spreading in every corner of the world . |
| 13 | Pin 3 waveforms are inverted before being applied to the switching transistor ( TR1 ) . |
| 14 | Spontaneous recovery occurred within one hour , during which time the animals were kept warm by infrared heat from a lamp before being returned to the standard conditions of the animal house . |
| 15 | Indeed , as the locomotive will have to be restored to its current green livery before being returned to the National Railway Museum the prospects for a change are not high . |
| 16 | As much as 85% of the materials should be on open access , and stock relegated to store should remain there for a trial period of five years before being returned to the main library , or transferred to a permanent back-up collection such as the British Library . |
| 17 | A new draft constitution was published on Dec. 30 for public comment before being submitted to the National Assembly for approval in March 1992 . |
| 18 | The Bath No 8 was asked to perform at openside flank before being switched to the tight side of the scrum . |
| 19 | All completed forms should be photocopied before being issued to the New OED Computer Group for actioning . |
| 20 | The remaining two seats were in doubt for several days before being awarded to the conservative coalition as a result of the distribution of preferential votes . |
| 21 | He attended Liverpool College before being apprenticed to the well-known Manchester engineering firm of Joseph Whitworth & Company . |
| 22 | For it is the increase in product wages ( the real cost to the employer of hiring workers ) which makes the old machinery unprofitable and permits labour to be transferred to the new . |
| 23 | It called for more powers to be transferred to the European Commission and to the European Parliament , which would have the power to veto with a majority vote legislation proposed by the Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | In early January the Planning Commission started a review of large industrial projects with a view to allowing resources to be transferred to the agricultural sector . |
| 25 | Dobry 's proposal , in essence , was that the simple should be distinguished and treated expeditiously , though with the opportunity for some participation and with a safety channel to allow them to be transferred to the major category if this should prove appropriate . |
| 26 | If the matrimonial home is to be transferred to the sole name of the wife the mortgagee may be content to re-assign a life policy on the life of the husband to him , the mortgage on the property reverting to a repayment mortgage . |
| 27 | After talks with BR 's Chairman , Peter Parker , we agreed that the sensible way forward was for a new company , British Rail Investments , to be formed and for the subsidiaries to be transferred to the private sector , with the proceeds going to British Rail . |
| 28 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 29 | Authority over the Chernobyl power station was to be transferred to the Ukrainian government , and deputies accordingly voted to create a Ukrainian government department for nuclear safety and research . |
| 30 | In the event , an RVF advantage was generally observed implying , according to Moscovitch , that the letters presented to the LVF had to be transferred to the left hemisphere for processing . |