Example sentences of "be [verb] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | These , again , are pre-set to a small selection , but , noticeably , they include only those colours that normally print well with a three colour ribbon , which , given the price and target audience of the program , is a sensible move . |
| 3 | All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom . |
| 4 | The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm . |
| 5 | But Adrie van Tiggelen , the Anderlecht defender who missed the Wales game because of suspension , has been recalled to a 16-man squad which also includes AC 's Frank Rijkaard . |
| 6 | Mohinder Amarnath , the all-rounder who angered the Indian selectors last year by labelling them a ‘ bunch of jokers ’ , has been recalled to the Indian team for the three-nation Sharjah Cup cricket tournament from 12 to 20 October . |
| 7 | Fulham defender Jeff Hopkins has been recalled to the Welsh squad for the World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands as a replacement for Kevin Ratcliffe . |
| 8 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 9 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 10 | Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document . |
| 11 | However , in broad terms , one credit is assigned to one 40-hour module ; two credits are assigned to an 80-hour module , etc . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , the results are not always convincing : lyric poetry , for example is labelled as non-fictional even when it includes references to non-existing objects ( such as blue deer in Georg Trakl 's poems ) , while narrative and nonsense poetry are assigned to the fictional domain . |
| 13 | Since the Library 's collections are dispersed throughout three buildings , it is necessary to have a more or less continuous programme of transferring stock from one floor to another , and from one building to another , in order to create space for expansion and to ensure that the printed collections are placed to the maximum advantage as far as distribution , access and preservation are concerned . |
| 14 | In acts chapter two and verse thirty two , this Jesus , God raised up again to which we are all witnesses , therefore , having been exulted to the right hand of God , and having receiving from the father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured forth this which you both see and hear . |
| 15 | Will the Minister make sure that such assurances are given to the hard-working community in Hong Kong ? |
| 16 | Crimes of Tazir are given to the appropriate authority to determine punishment . |
| 17 | At each stage of the Award , a certificate , identity card and badge , are given to the successful junior to testify to his or her achievement . |
| 18 | Against this background , Conservatives should say : too many prison sentences are given to the wrong people ( eg alcoholics ) ; prison regimes are too often wrong , with prisoners staying inside in relatively soft conditions for relatively long sentences ; too often violent criminals do not get sent to prison as they should ; for young thugs short spells are advocated in glasshouse-type detention centres with a very tough physical regime ( but good food ) ; otherwise there should be a greater emphasis on fines , representing a more humane and economical approach . |
| 19 | Instead , we are treated to the Gaelic language stuck on the culture of others like Thomas the Tank Engine or pastiche gardening programmes about how to grow runner beans against a breeze block wall ! |
| 20 | He 'd been posted to the Far East in the 1930 's and as a police office , he was captured at the fall of Singapore and imprisoned in the Japanese death camps . |
| 21 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 22 | The tilt problems so far have all been traced to the electric control systems . |
| 23 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 24 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 25 | As a result , the general equilibrium analysis of tax incidence has , for the most part , been limited to the competitive equilibrium framework described in Lecture 7 . |
| 26 | It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 27 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 28 | Finally , a monitoring system needs to be put in place to see that the work specified in the contract has been undertaken to the required standard within the agreed financial amount . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And as a result we have been treated to the delightful sight of Princess Diana in a variety of stunning swimming costumes . |