Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE proceeds of a vintage vehicle rally being held in Toomebridge this Saturday are going to the Cardiac Unit of the Waveney Hospital , Ballymena . |
| 2 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 3 | In golf 's World Matchplay Championship quarter-finals at Wentworth , Seve Ballesteros beats the American , Chip Beck , 9 and 8 , but Nick Faldo is taken to the 38th hole by South Africa 's David Frost before winning a sudden-death play-off . |
| 4 | The crisis at Speywood is linked to the growing uncertainty about the future of the British Technology Group . |
| 5 | A marquis , Ridolfi was related to the Medici family through the marriage of one of his ancestors to a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent ; another member of the family , Cosimo Rodolfi , was a leading figure of the 19th century Risorgimento and the founder of Florence 's first savings bank . |
| 6 | In a reshuffle on June 14 ( i ) Aguinaldo Jaime replaced Augusto Teixeira de Matos as Minister of Finance ; ( ii ) Boavista da Silva Cardoso was appointed to the new portfolio of Information ; and ( iii ) José de Franca Dias Van Dúnem was appointed Minister of Planning in place of António Henriques da Silva . |
| 7 | After a period supporting Coastal Command based at Predannock , Cornwall , in 1943 Braham was switched to the experimental task of escorting bomber streams over Europe . |
| 8 | Soper was displeasing to the Free Presbyterians for a number of reasons — his commitment to ecumenism , his left-wing politics — but more than anything it was his rationalism which provoked the ire of conservatives . |
| 9 | Leader of the State Council Eduard Shevardnadze was elected to the latter position — effectively a presidential role — with over 95 per cent of the vote . |
| 10 | Kuwait was admitted to the Arab League and to the United Nations . |
| 11 | Fifty-eight year old Daniel Brady from Northfield Avenue was admitted to the Southern General suffering from head injuries , but died last night . |
| 12 | After getting physically very weak as the result of being unable to eat without extreme discomfort , a few weeks ago Molly was admitted to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital Great Ormond Street where doctors found and dealt with a severe restriction in her stomach . |
| 13 | Senior Conservatives Sir Peter Hordern , Sir Peter Emery and Sir John Wheeler are appointed to the Privy Counsel . |
| 14 | Representatives from every college in Scotland were invited to the latter . |
| 15 | So let's see SSG and FQS being used to the full in 1993 . |
| 16 | Thus great areas of central Spain were condemned to the extensive farming of cereals for low yields at great expense of labour . |
| 17 | Gould is writing to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Sport to express his concern after he was banned from working for BSkyB at Albion 's Cup match with Wycombe on Tuesday . |
| 18 | Gould is writing to the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister to express his concern after he was banned from working for BSkyB at Albion 's Cup match with Wycombe Wanderers on Tuesday . |
| 19 | In formal terms , the Labour Party in North Tyneside was committed to the central role of council housing in urban development after 1974 . |
| 20 | Although the couple lived in poverty , through Modigliani Jeanne was introduced to the high point of the Montparnasse adventure . |
| 21 | The Turner was given to the Royal Holloway — which occupies a 800-room Grade I listed building — in 1883 by its founder , Thomas Holloway , a Victorian philanthropist who bought it for £3,675 . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , Hammond was appointed to the corresponding post in the New Model Army from the spring of 1645 . |
| 23 | The Greek ambassador to Albania was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on March 10 to receive a complaint concerning pamphlets in Greek expressing " chauvinist and nationalist " sentiments which had been distributed illegally in southern Albania . |
| 24 | Miss Stott was taken to the Medical Centre of Louisiana , where she died at 7.30am on Wednesday . |
| 25 | If the absurdity of the present position of the Death Grant were exposed to the public gaze , would not reform become easier ? |
| 26 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. announced that for reasons to be given later the court would order that W. be transferred to the proposed specialist unit and there receive treatment without her consent . |
| 27 | Dr Apps is going to the Arctic with the British Schools Exploration Society to research the Ozone layer . |
| 28 | Education minister Baroness Emily Blatch is promoted to the Privy Counsel . |
| 29 | It could be that Matthew is referring to the greatest text to be found in the Old Testament concerning the coming of the Messiah : ‘ Then a shoot shall grow from the stock of Jesse , and a branch shall spring from his roots . |
| 30 | Made jittery by the successes of the Republicans , the CSU is pandering to the far right by questioning the legitimacy of Germany 's post-Second World War frontiers . |