Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 2 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 3 | The central issue which underlies the continuing pattern of human rights violations is that members of the armed forces are rarely brought to justice for the crimes they commit and therefore act with impunity . |
| 4 | These perceptions , far from being simple or accidental , are intimately related to issues of authority and control and the need to concentrate power in the hands of certain groups of people . |
| 5 | Those speakers whose ties are weakest are those who approximate least closely to vernacular norms , and are most exposed to pressures for change originating from outside the network . |
| 6 | These algorithms are most suited to tasks with small branching ratios and reversible operators , and with simple states so that the algorithm can remember several states at a time . |
| 7 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 8 | The Government generally take the view that matters of pay and hours are better left to negotiation between employers and employees , or by their representatives , and that they should certainly not be dealt with in legislation or in codes of practice provided for in statute . |
| 9 | In the cutical-chitin chains are apparently joined to proteins by covalent linkages involving aspartic acid and histidine ( Rudall , 1963 ) . |
| 10 | According to reliable sources in the Northern Ireland Prison Service , weapons are only issued to officers from the armoury after careful consideration of a written request . |
| 11 | These are normally presented to Parliament in the previous December , along with the winter supplementary estimates for the previous year . |
| 12 | I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders , just their cobwebs . |
| 13 | Identifiable links between the Mycenaeans and Egyptians have until now been largely confined to deposits of Mycenaean pottery in Egypt , and sporadic finds of Egyptians objects in Greece.If this papyrus does show Mycenaean warriors fighting alongside Egyptians , perhaps as mercenaries , it provides the first evidence for more direct interaction between these two major Bronze Age cultures of the Mediterranean . |
| 14 | A few works , such as Jesus the Magician and The Gnostic Gospels , have been widely reviewed , discussed and distributed , but their readership has been largely confined to people with a particular interest in their subject matter . |
| 15 | Moreover the differences are not related to differences in trade proportions between the UK and the EC and the rest of the world . |
| 16 | It is therefore possible that the changes found in the study of Beardshall et al are not related to suppression of H pylori although this remains the most likely explanation . |
| 17 | It has the additional advantage that every subject can be shown identical films , thus interpretations of differences in performance are not limited to comparisons between junctions . |
| 18 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 19 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 20 | For example , in addition to the road-traffic offences , there are offences under sections 32 and 33 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of endangering railway passengers ; there are the offences under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 of endangering the lives of others by causing damage to property ( usually by fire ) ; the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 penalizes employers for failure to ensure that employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety ; and there are offences , such as that under section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , of selling goods in contravention of safety regulations . |
| 21 | The Health and Safety at Work ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1978 requires the University to ensure , as far as is reasonably practicable , that students are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 22 | The leaf-people are not linked to humans in such a direct way , but structurally the relationships are analogous . |
| 23 | And , in this modern era , the squad sessions are not restricted to instruction on technique . |
| 24 | These narratives consistently address material conditions and contradictions in women 's lives ; and the international sales figures indicate that those contradictions are not restricted to women in the western cultures of Britain and America . |
| 25 | For instance , temporal relations are not restricted to sequence in real time ; they may reflect stages in the unfolding text . |
| 26 | Will the Minister give us an assurance that genuine applications that are encouraged by take-up campaigns are not subjected to discrimination in terms of the length of time taken for their assessment ? |
| 27 | I think er it 's got to be er linked certainly to the rate of inflation , er and in some way linked to the way that the fire service er has their pay formula , and they 're actually linked to 25% of the top 25% of schooled manual workers , er we 'd be looking at some sort of deal like that , or if it was n't er tied up with percentage rates I think we need , definitely need an independent pay review body for the ambulance service . |
| 28 | HARMONY IN MY HEAD Brian May I spoke to Brian May on the day the news broke that his guitar had been mistakenly despatched to France by a roadie , to await an uncertain fate at the hands of ‘ lost and found ’ … |
| 29 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 30 | The scents are possibly modified to pheromones in mating , for bees carrying scent apparently attract other males , so that about five display together whereupon the female chooses her mate . |