Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern that some areas ( typically the sigmoid colon ) had been inadequately visualised led to colonoscopy and the discovery of four more patients with small adenomas ( <5 mm ) . |
| 2 | Embryologists are sensitive about issues relating to animal experimentation and the vast majority of experiments are done on very early embryos which are rarely allowed to develop to maturity . |
| 3 | Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience . |
| 4 | Some of the other writers in this book , and a number of other researchers are also seen to contribute to knowledge in this area . |
| 5 | Crews are fairly divided according to age and experience , and all 130 competitors had to raise £14,850 for their berth — Justine is jointly sponsored by Price Waterhouse and Blackburn-based accountancy firm Porter Matthews and Marsden , for which she has been working . |
| 6 | The US Senate foreign relations committee chairman , Claiborne Pell , had warned on Nov. 8 that the President " would be badly advised to go to war without a clear prior expression of congressional support " and should not " establish an offensive capacity in advance of a UN resolution authorizing offensive action " . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , they stressed that any sampling design should be rigorously stratified according to site conditions and the stage of regeneration of the forest , and that measurements of parameters such as stand height , basal area and tree density in the areas around plots should also be taken . |
| 8 | Therefore , long-term measures to promote sales are not feasible , and the manufacturer would be better advised to look to product improvement as part of long-term strategy . |
| 9 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
| 10 | The transitions between word ending states and word beginning states are then modified according to word boundary phonological rules . |
| 11 | Different nouns are sometimes used to refer to female and male members of the same species : cow/bull , sow/boar , doe/stag , mare/stallion , ewe/ram . |
| 12 | For this reason , the patients were also stratified according to stone free intervals of > , or < , two years and biased randomisation performed as described above . |
| 13 | The bodies of a couple and their 16 year old son were earlier found battered to death at Beckonsfield . |
| 14 | Each sector and the separate segments were then analysed according to performance — pre-tax and turnover — and market valuation . |
| 15 | These were then classified according to impact on the business and ease of solution . |
| 16 | Item 4 of the same Schedule specifies the ‘ place where the property is situated ’ for an appeal where there is a dispute over a valuation , but this statement is only intended to apply to property within the UK — the authorities can not be compelled to travel to Portugal to hear the appeal ! |
| 17 | This does not mean , however , that the Commissioner is always determined to go to court . |
| 18 | In immune deficient states Cryptosporidium is also found attached to crypt epithelium within the crypt lumen , indicating differences in the extent of colonisation of the mucosal surface in the two conditions . |
| 19 | It is also expected to lead to student transfers between the two centres , distance learning through new technologies and Kirkcaldy running franchised courses for at least the early years of Dundee 's courses . |
| 20 | It is stress causing hostility and aggression that is now thought to contribute to cholesterol deposits in arteries . ’ |
| 21 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 22 | Work was highly differentiated according to sex . |
| 23 | Mrs Johnson also suffered a reduction in net pay and increased travelling time and was therefore deemed entitled to redundancy pay by the tribunal . |