Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the art treasures had long since been taken to Moscow , many of the palaces were in ruins after the fearful fighting between the Russians and the Germans . |
| 2 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 3 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 4 | I understand that these applications have only just been submitted to Midlothian District Council as the local planning authority and I have to advise you that it would not be appropriate for Regional Council officials to comment publicly at this stage . |
| 5 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 6 | The Royal Year and Christmas numbers of the ILN have always been successful extra issues each year , and they will henceforth both be sent to subscribers , giving them in total six issues of the ILN each year . |
| 7 | Prizes for painting have so far been awarded to de Kooning and Hockney ( jointly ) , to Tàpies , Balthus and this year to Soulages ; in sculpture Mastroianni , Pomodoro , Chillida and this year Caro ( did Signor Fanfani think Caro a third Italian , I wonder ? ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Much here is owed to Holbein engraving , ’ said the guide , to show off her knowledge . |
| 9 | N are index terms ( that is , descriptors ) and B and C and so on are related to A via some hierarchy of relationships . |
| 10 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 11 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 12 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 13 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 14 | This year 's cruise will visit the Norwegian fjords ; all profits will once again be donated to Enterprise Neptune . |
| 15 | With the help of genetic finger-printing and the composite embryo techniques the experiment involved , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life from tissue preserved in museums . |
| 16 | With the help of genetic finger-printing , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life |
| 17 | Rhinos are also now being relocated to sanctuaries which are surrounded by high voltage fencing . |
| 18 | Pattern recognition techniques that have most often been applied to script include spatial analysis methods ( where strokes are coded by a numbering system on a grid ) which are easy to implement but are only suitable for unconnected characters , and will be user dependent in order to keep the database of character codings small and accuracy high . |
| 19 | The thought of what they might even now be doing to Ruggiero Miletti took the sparkle and warmth out of the morning and made Zen realize how exhausted he was . |
| 20 | The kind of help that museums can give to adults can equally well be given to schoolchildren , and to teachers who bring parties of schoolchildren for specific purposes . |
| 21 | The economic status of an individual will almost certainly be communicated to others in a variety of ways , for example by the choice of neighbourhood for purchase of a house , the choice of social circle and the type of occupation — at least in Western cultures . |
| 22 | This occurred for a number of reasons : laparoscopy became a widely used diagnostic tool , with diagnosis no longer being restricted to patients with disease severe enough to warrant laparotomy , and gynaecologists became aware of the myriad visual appearances of endometriosis which represent evolution of the disease through visually distinct stages to the relatively inactive classic blue-black lesions . |
| 23 | For example , the requirement that companies and firms not registered in Denmark obtain prior authorisation from the Ministry of Justice if they wished to acquire land was clearly incompatible with the right of establishment , and could no longer be applied to companies registered in other member states when Denmark joined the EC . |
| 24 | With the introduction of the new syllabus it has been decided that the Specialist level papers and reports will no longer be sold to members . |
| 25 | The RSPCA has always been in favour of whips being carried for the reasons outlined by Luhnenschloss , but its assistant chief veterinary officer , Alastair Mews , said : ‘ Future decisions can no longer be left to tradition , habit , or hearsay but must be based on good science . |
| 26 | Medical Referrals and other Referrals will therefore now be sent to Lothian Health Board with myself as the Contact Officer . |
| 27 | These freedoms could not very well be limited to men of the directing classes . |
| 28 | Props for drama and serial sets : Sets have to be dressed with contemporary articles and some products can very usefully be supplied to studio property rooms . |