Example sentences of "and be [vb pp] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his day a College of Advanced Technology , it has since grown in size and been raised to the status of a university , but without putting on any airs and graces . |
| 2 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 3 | John Leacock had been educated at Christ 's Hospital in London and been apprenticed to a firm of British merchants in the island , Catanach & Murdoch . |
| 4 | Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years . |
| 5 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 6 | The two girls had been fetched by car , the Prince 's car , from the salon and been taken to the river at Beni Suef , where the dahabeeyah had called in for them . |
| 7 | The two 10-tonne rams came from an old Volvo dump-truck and are connected to a cross-shaft at the top . |
| 8 | Pipe clips come in different sizes depending on the size of pipe to be supported and are connected to the wall with a single screw ( often round-head ) passed through the centre and screwed into a wall plug . |
| 9 | The base and emitter pins of the transistor go through the board holes where shown and are soldered to the foil . |
| 10 | To create databases that contain local statistics and are tailored to the needs of particular units of work within the curriculum . |
| 11 | The savings deposited in the NSB are called ‘ national savings ’ and are lent to the government . |
| 12 | Places are allocated on a strictly first come first served basis , and are limited to a maximum of 16 places , some of which are already allocated . |
| 13 | The interest rates on the deposits are fixed for the term and are related to the London Interbank Bid Rate ( LIBID ) of the same term . |
| 14 | In the French LFAs , subsidised loans are the more common incentive for capital developments ; capital grants are fixed at a lower level than in the UK and are related to the degree of handicap . |
| 15 | Meerkats are a kind of Mongoose and are related to the civets and genets . |
| 16 | Killer whales and pilot whales belong to the group known as ‘ toothed whales ’ ( and are related to the dolphins ) and both are seen from time to time around Shetland . |
| 17 | Capital grants are treated as deferred credits and are credited to the profit and loss account on the same basis as the related tangible assets are depreciated . |
| 18 | You play on and are transported to the mountains where you start tramping through the ranges . |
| 19 | Sterling CDs have a minimum value of £50 000 and are issued to the value of £1 000 000 in increasing multiples of £10 000 . |
| 20 | Parts of the moorland — some would say too many — are used as military training areas and are closed to the public at certain times . |
| 21 | The fangs are hollow and are linked to a venom gland . |
| 22 | These nets are about the diameter of a bicycle wheel and are attached to a rope so that they can be lowered over the edge of jetties and into deep pools . |
| 23 | The indirect muscles are usually the largest in the body , and are attached to the thorax and not to the wing-bases . |
| 24 | The continuous lines then come straight out from the pole and are pegged to the ground forming a triangle shape . |
| 25 | Children also identify the use of cigarette brand imagery for other products or services , eg Silk Cut Holidays , as advertisements for cigarettes and are attracted to the imagery conveyed [ 8 ] . |
| 26 | Some areas of intellectual property discussed in this Part of the book have little , if any , international scope and are restricted to the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Once the cells leave this position they cease to be stem cells and are committed to a pathway leading to maturation and death . |
| 28 | She was the first of a line of ‘ nymphets ’ who would also include Carroll Baker in Baby Doll and be raised to the permanence of art in Nabokov 's Lolita . |
| 29 | The method used ( and you may well think of a better one ! ) is to drive two brass gimp or panel pins into the panel on each side of each of the l.e.d.s such that the l.e.d. wires can be looped around ( no tightness here ) and be soldered to the pins rather as Fig. 6 shows . |
| 30 | Many pilots will drift into other careers and be lost to the industry for good . |