Example sentences of "and [be] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits of massage are endless and are n't confined to body alone . |
| 2 | They are unpopular since they are regressive and are poorly related to income . |
| 3 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 4 | They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic . |
| 5 | I could be trapped here at the top of the tower and be either forced to jump or killed like a rat trapped in a barn . |
| 6 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 7 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 8 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 9 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 10 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 11 | Moreover , the test applies to all unusual or unreasonable terms , and is not limited to exclusion and limitation clauses . |
| 12 | If the selling shareholder is a corporation , the Revenue takes the view that , because the distribution element is franked investment income and is not charged to corporation tax in the company 's hands , the full amount of the sale price should be brought into account in the company 's computation of chargeable gains . |
| 13 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 14 | Infrequently , a refractory pouchitis ( RP ) presents with certain clinical , endoscopic , and pathological features resembling Crohn 's disease and is often ascribed to misdiagnosis of the initial colitis . |
| 15 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 16 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 17 | Jazz gave little away , and was not given to complaint . |
| 18 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 19 | Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos . |
| 20 | He began banging his head against the wall , vomiting up his food , lost a great deal of weight and was eventually taken to hospital . |
| 21 | She had an unhappy childhood in Weston-super-Mare , and was briefly sent to boarding-school in Devizes at the age of eight . |
| 22 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 23 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 24 | Hammond changed his status from professional to amateur partly through taking a directorship of a tyre company in 1938 — he liked to drive fast cars — and was then selected to captain England . |
| 25 | He did his basic training at Warrington and was then posted to officer training school at Grantham . |
| 26 | JUDITH CANNON has recently been promoted to operations director public sector , a new senior position that reflects the continued growth of our public sector division , which caters for schools and hospitals across the UK , Judith joined CCG in 1984 as senior area manager for the Earling schools and social service contract , and was then promoted to business development manager and latterly general manager . |