Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 2 | The Murray 's Handbooks to India are punctuated with references to stations much used by pilgrims . |
| 3 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 4 | But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so . |
| 5 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 6 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 7 | We found a similar trend in a previous study in Hertfordshire , the only other study in which a group of people has been traced from birth to death . |
| 8 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 9 | None of them had been treated before admission to hospital , and none had any other medical disorders . |
| 10 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 11 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 12 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
| 13 | This requirement has already been explained in relation to section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act ( paragraphs 10–19 to 10–21 above ) . |
| 14 | It has been developed in response to customer demand and requests from Branch Banking Division for a more streamlined system . |
| 15 | The singer 's life contained enough misbehaviour to make director Oliver Stone 's job easy ( pace that notorious gig in Miami when Jimbo bared more than his soul ) ; his songs are riddled with references to drugs and sex ; and — making the film a dead cert — he obligingly took an early bath in Paris in '71 . |
| 16 | All this concerns Aquitaine because Earl Reginald 's eldest daughter , Sarah , had been given in marriage to Aimar of Limoges while he was a minor in Henry II 's custody . |
| 17 | The receipted Form 53 is likely to follow a little while later , and the undertaking in respect thereof will have been given in replies to requisitions on title . |
| 18 | As payment for this help Sisenand promised a gold dish , weighing five hundred pounds , which had been given by Aëtius to king Thorismund in the fifth century . |
| 19 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 20 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 21 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 22 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 23 | These issues are addressed in relation to media coverage of disorderly episodes referred to in earlier chapters . |
| 24 | The following year 's prediction has been slashed from £314m to £270m . |
| 25 | The cost of a 25MHz 486SX has been slashed from £1,240 to £990 ; a 386SX from £845 to £710. 50MHz and 66MHz 486DX machines have also been introduced to the range , and the warranty on all computers now extends to three years instead of one . |
| 26 | Peter went next to the Latymer School which had been evacuated from Hammersmith to High Wycombe . |
| 27 | A few months later I saw two who 'd been evacuated from Sarajevo to Zagreb so they were still alive . |
| 28 | Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time . |
| 29 | at Maldon has been recommended for approval to BS 5750 Part 2 ( ISO 9002 ) . |
| 30 | Hughes and Wilkin ( 1985 ) point out that the move towards integration in the community of mentally handicapped and mentally ill people has not been paralleled in relation to dementia . |