Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is rather like the American system of presidential elections except that in the American system , the people who are voted for are tied to a particular candidate , so it 's really just erm a convoluted way of having a direct system rather than a genuinely indirect system here .
2 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 .
3 ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County .
4 Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week .
5 The report states that those who have lived on state pensions , income support or low pay , are most likely to live in the most energy-inefficient homes which are incapable of being heated to a minimum comfort standard .
6 So her performance could n't be too low either — especially with the risk of being relegated to the brain-dead clerk-level .
7 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 .
8 One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims .
9 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 .
10 This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling .
11 My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib .
12 It has the unique distinction among school magazines of being confined to the closed case of the British Library .
13 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
14 Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it .
15 Bad temper could be either a cause or effect of being admitted to a residential home .
16 The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed .
17 R&D is such a system and is capable of being described to a useful extent in catastrophe terms .
18 Agriculture , the remaining industry to be considered , presents the paradox of being subjected to an enormous apparatus of state regulation while landowners have remained firmly among the leading cadres of the Tory Party .
19 Sick of being subjected to the Argentinian 's taunts Johnson simply replied ‘ Come near me sunshine and you 'll be swallowing your teeth . ’
20 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 .
21 The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma .
22 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 .
23 To prevent women from being relegated to a secondary role .
24 If the objects of the society are not charitable , the rule against perpetuities ( see p. 42 ) , from which charities , provided that they are to begin within the perpetuity period , are exempt , will make void any gift of property by way of permanent endowment , whether made by will or otherwise ; but there is nothing to prevent gifts or bequests from being made to a non-charitable society in such terms that it can , at any time , dispose of the capital at its pleasure .
25 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 .
26 First , it revived international concern over what had often been called the ‘ forgotten war ’ — although it had by then lasted longer than the Second World War , it was still far from being brought to a formal end .
27 That influence , far from being confined to the former graveyard of St Giles ' , has spread and is spreading in every corner of the world .
28 Pin 3 waveforms are inverted before being applied to the switching transistor ( TR1 ) .
29 New tenants , particularly from non-conforming households such as single parents , tend to be given the poorer standard housing and are expected to prove their ability to look after and improve their home before being transferred to a better property .
30 The labelled cells were washed once with cell free plasma before being transferred to a heparinised plastic syringe for reinjection .
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