Example sentences of "and [be] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Issues are managed by domestic security dealers or by merchant banks and are largely sold to investors resident in the UK . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The new conditions of sale have been drafted for both domestic and commercial transactions and are not restricted to transactions where the National Protocol is followed . |
| 4 | The benefits of massage are endless and are n't confined to body alone . |
| 5 | Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity . |
| 6 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 7 | They are unpopular since they are regressive and are poorly related to income . |
| 8 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 11 | It should lead to more understanding of language diversity , including multilingualism , and be closely related to pupils ' experience in their own communities , and therefore be treated with great sensitivity to pupils ' home backgrounds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gibraltar and Minorca remained in British hands throughout the war , and were formally transferred to Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 17 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 18 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 19 | Phages from plaques that gave rise to identical signals on both filters were purified by another round of plating and screening and were then subcloned to Bluescript plasmids according to the manufacturer 's ( Stratagene ) instructions . |
| 20 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 21 | This section of the Act is of general application and is not limited to London . |
| 22 | Moreover , the test applies to all unusual or unreasonable terms , and is not limited to exclusion and limitation clauses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Lexical variation of this type is widespread in Durham and is not restricted to items belonging to any particular grammatical class ; Kerswill reports that it is particularly salient as a sociolinguistic marker sensitive both to the age and social class of the speaker ; but unlike either CSPs or other phonological variables , it is affected very little by speech style . |
| 25 | But Aristotle is not just making a sociological point about what is and is not permitted to women in his society . |
| 26 | The House held , agreeing with the Court of Appeal , that there is a tort of intimidation , but they also held , reversing the Court of Appeal , that the tort extends to threats by A to break his contract with B and is not confined to threats of criminal or tortious conduct . |
| 27 | A disclaimer can be used in relation to any trade description of any goods and is not confined to odometers on motor cars . |
| 28 | The sanding plate wo n't rip or tear , and is simply attached to tools with a self-adhesive backing . |
| 29 | It also gets to 60mph in 5.9secs and is artificially restricted to 157mph . |
| 30 | 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 . |