Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gas prices in the Netherlands are linked to the price of heating oil and have fallen due to the generally over-supplied nature of the oil products market . |
| 2 | How far Marx and Engels were wedded to the idea is not clear and Engels did note that this sequence did not apply to the New World . |
| 3 | The earldoms granted by Edward III in 1337 were all granted in tail male , and in the course of the century the earldoms of Oxford , Warwick , Arundel and Surrey were surrendered to the king and regranted in tail male . |
| 4 | In the following year Malta and Constantinople were added to the number . |
| 5 | When Bonnie Prince Charlie left after a brief visit during his march on England in 1745 , the Earl of Traquair vowed that the resplendent Bear Gates ( the ‘ Steekit Yetts ’ ) should not be opened again until the Stuarts were restored to the throne . |
| 6 | LASMO is committed to the welfare of its employees , the protection of the environment in which it operates and to making an active contribution to the local communities where the Group 's operations are located . |
| 7 | Dr Barnardo 's benefited to the tune of £260 recently after Torness clerical assistant Murray Brunton , Peter Cotton from Information Systems and Ian Kilpatrick from Ops , walked through Lairig Ghru in the Cairngorms . |
| 8 | No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid . |
| 9 | In 1963 Earp returned to England , Lawrie was transferred to the North Lowlands Unit and Johnstone became the District Geologist for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 10 | Dr. Goldsmith did n't want to certify the man at first , but later relented , and Sabey was sent to the asylum . |
| 11 | Kathleen was called to the phone and discovered her mother crying and laughing all at once , with all the family , it seemed , lined up behind her waiting to talk . |
| 12 | Leule Selase Tamamum was appointed to the Cabinet , but it was unclear what portfolio he was to hold . |
| 13 | When the raids died down after May 1941 Scott was moved to the Ministry of Home Security , first as deputy ( 1941–2 ) and then as permanent secretary ( 1942–3 ) . |
| 14 | When the human teacher of the chimpanzee Nim Chimsky could no longer afford to continue his researches , Nim was returned to the community of zoo chimpanzees from which he had originally come . |
| 15 | Donald P. Brennan was appointed to the Board on 22 May 1991 and to the board of Waterford Wedgwood U.K. plc on 14 June 1991 . |
| 16 | In June 1917 Maitland was appointed to the DSO for ‘ extremely valuable and gallant work in connection with airships and parachutes ’ . |
| 17 | The debt problem was solved by someone he hardly knew paying his debt and Seawright was elected to the Assembly where he turned out to be a thorn in the DUP 's flesh . |
| 18 | Mr George Daszczuk was pinned to the ground and mauled for 15 minutes as he was set upon by the two dogs , which had chewed their way through the wooden door of a garage they were guarding . |
| 19 | A major disaster occurred in the next month , when the Crystal Palace was burned to the ground on the night of 5 December , when over 500 firemen were required . |
| 20 | Mr Samson was taken to the Duchess of Kent military hospital in Catterick , where doctors discovered he had internal bleeding . |
| 21 | Mrs Fellows was referred to the physiotherapist for teaching and practice of leg exercises before the operation . |
| 22 | Mrs Fellows was admitted to the ward the day before her planned surgery . |
| 23 | MacArthur was dedicated to the extirpation of militarism and did not favour the development of defence forces . |
| 24 | Hair samples collected by Dr are sent to the institute of biophysics at the Federal University at Rio de Janeiro . |
| 25 | One day Victoria and Alexander were called to the drawing room after tea and saw a strange woman in a dress printed with yellow lemons sitting on the fender beside their father . |
| 26 | A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration . |
| 27 | In recognition of this growing business orientation , the weapons activities of AEA were transferred to the Ministry of Defence in 1973 , at which time AEA staff numbered 16,000 . |
| 28 | The more the eyes of Canada and Australia and England were directed to the train , the more Filmer might want to discredit it . |
| 29 | My researches into Tristram 's time in Spain were geared to the effect it had on his poetry . |
| 30 | Petrol prices in Russia were deregulated to the extent of allowing prices to rise by a factor of about five from April 19 . |