Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Fat Bloke who supports Man U informs us at length about some 5-year rule under which English Welshmen called Speed are deemed by UEFA to be Not Foreign , a rule which the management of Stuttgart Internazionale are strangely ignorant of . |
| 2 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 3 | The change of allegiance on the part of individual scientists from one paradigm to an incompatible alternative is likened by Kuhn to a ‘ gestalt switch ’ or a ‘ religious conversion ’ . |
| 4 | One seat was lost by UUUC to an independent in Fermanagh and South Tyrone as a consequence of an arrangement by which the anti-Unionist vote was not split between SDLP and Unity . |
| 5 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 6 | A village case study was conducted during July to September 1984 based on two villages in the Chittagong division . |
| 7 | There are accounts of dogs of Mastiff type being exported from Britain to Rome through an agent known as the Procurator Pugnacium ( provider of dogs ) . |
| 8 | Marriage is designed by God to be a lifetime 's commitment . |
| 9 | In the years immediately before the Reform Act , frequent reference is made in Scotland to Boroughmongers , although , as the spelling shows , the term was of English origin . |
| 10 | The same insincere welcome is used by Macbeth to Macduff : ‘ The labour we delight in physics pain' ( II.iii.48f. ) , and at the news of Duncan 's murder Lady Macbeth is given one of the most brilliant pieces of hypocrisy Shakespeare ever invented : ‘ Woe , alas ! /What , in our house ? ’ |
| 11 | This work was subcontracted by EEG to John Whitney Jr and his Digital Productions — John Whitney Sr was a pioneer of computer animation whose abstract films inspired Con Pederson and Douglas Trumbull to try slit-scan . |
| 12 | At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes . |
| 13 | Medeghino was exiled from Milan to Lake Como for killing a man , and there he took over a castle on the natural fortress of the Sassoi di Musso near the village of Musso at the northern end of the lake , killing the castle 's governor . |
| 14 | The 114 deputies who had supported the independence move were understood in August to be facing possible criminal charges , together with all those who had struck in their support . |
| 15 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 16 | The role of the novel at this juncture is seen by Brooke-Rose to be crucial . |
| 17 | Government approval was given in September to a development scheme to transform Leith into a deep water Port with impounded water . |
| 18 | The truth was revealed by Eden to the British cabinet when he indignantly reported : They [ Truman and Acheson ] are polite ; listen to what we have to say , but make ( on most issues ) their own decisions . |
| 19 | In 1874 the Loco Establishment was removed from Wolverton to Northampton , on completion of the loop line from Rugby to Northampton ( opened 1 December 1881 ) and from Northampton to Roade ( opened 3 April 1882 ) . |
| 20 | Even so , in 979 a body was moved from Wareham to the nunnery at Shaftesbury , and in 1001 transferred again from the churchyard to inside the abbey . |
| 21 | The executed legal charge was sent to Warrens to be held , in escrow , pending completion . |
| 22 | Such stress inoculation in the form of graded exposure to increasing levels of stress is believed by Epstein to be a natural healing process of the mind . |
| 23 | as if to seal off the barbarians and leave them to their own devices , Hadrian 's Wall was built from Solway to Tyne between AD 122 and 127 . |
| 24 | The convoy was moved through BLEIBURG to LAVAMUND from where they were to be taken by march route to MARIBOR — a distance of some 53 miles . |
| 25 | The school health service was transferred from LEAs to area health authorities , but LEAs were required to provide facilities for dental and medical inspection of pupils . |
| 26 | My wife was flying from Tel-Aviv to London and who should be in front of us at the airport … |
| 27 | In 1927 , the first veteran car rally was held from London to Brighton . |
| 28 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 29 | The implementation of health policy is devolved by DHSS to regional and district health authorities ( DHAs ) . |
| 30 | Most movement is noted from June to September , and nestlings ringed in Sussex have been recovered on the Continent as early as June in the same year . |