Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that an input signal with Fourier transform is applied to a four-terminal network for which the transfer function is . |
| 2 | When they 've been promoted to a high ranking job . |
| 3 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
| 4 | Why would a purchased straddle be preferred to a reverse butterfly ? |
| 5 | All four Darlington candidates have been invited to a political debate on the Tyne Tees TV 's Point of Order . |
| 6 | COMMUNITY leaders from both sides of the border have been invited to an ecumenical church service at Creggan in south Armagh today . |
| 7 | Parents have been invited to an open day at the Royal Opera House which includes a back-stage tour , as well as dance and make-up sessions . |
| 8 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 9 | New houses are to be built on the site of the former Cameron maternity hospital and its facilities have been transferred to a new unit at the town 's general hospital . |
| 10 | Ten prisoners have reportedly been released and two others , whose sentences have not expired , have been transferred to an undisclosed place of detention . |
| 11 | Second , it is possible to derive a single overall measure of test performance from all the subtest scores , once they have been converted to a common scale of measurement . |
| 12 | Bristol 's ambitious plans have been presented to a wideranging audience : the leaders of many of the largest companies in this country , including , for example , BT , Sainsbury 's , IBM and Hewlett Packard , Booker and United Biscuits , Smith Kline Beecham and ICI ; the Directors of the major charitable trusts , such as the Wellcome Foundation , the Leverhulme Trust , CRC and Action Research , and the Rayne and Nuffield Foundations ; Government and learned institutions including the Royal Society , the Advisory Board for the Research Councils , MRC and MAFF ; and the press and media such as The Economist , The Director and Nature , together with leading journalists ( not least Bristol graduates Sue Lawley , Rosemary Hartill and Liz Howells ) . |
| 13 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 14 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 15 | The inward grace is that we have been born to a new relationship with God . |
| 16 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |
| 17 | I have been banished to a windy concrete corridor far from everywhere . |
| 18 | The emotions have been likened to a musical instrument and it is a man 's task to play upon its uttermost strings . |
| 19 | As at the Beginning the gifts of Pentecost have been renewed to a parched Church , and It can happen to Anybody . |
| 20 | Beds that fold down from the wall when they are needed have lost their makeshift image and have been updated to a new smooth efficiency and now come complete with a wall of closets or wardrobes . |
| 21 | With ITV and long-time sponsors Pearl Assurance switching their allegiance to the attractive invitation meeting in Glasgow last week , the championships have been reduced to a sorry state . |
| 22 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 23 | It is also worth bearing in mind that data on the benefits of conventional antihypertensive therapy have been derived to a large extent from subjects less than 65 years of age ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | The previous two sections have been devoted to a single idea . |
| 25 | The metamorphic gneisses throughout the Hebrides have been eroded to a gentle , undulating landscape as can be seen in central Lewis . |
| 26 | During the past decade , the zealous attempt to rid public buildings in the United States of the flimsiest traces of asbestos , and the personal damage claims that have simultaneously multiplied , have been financed to a substantial degree by the people at Lloyd 's . |
| 27 | These circumstances ( unexpectedness and lack of a supportive network ) have been linked to a raised probability of disturbed conduct and emotional disorder among young children following bereavement . |
| 28 | Certain qualities of events have been linked to a raised probability that a particular psychiatric disorder will develop shortly afterwards . |
| 29 | These risk factors have been linked to a poor prognosis . |
| 30 | And erm a , a lot of the medicines that are passed er have been passed to a certain degree and then th th the we become the the animal . |