Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we are to be fixed to the Deutschmark , that should be an agreed and acknowledged policy . |
| 2 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 3 | Sid , being unlikely to be displayed to the company , had been excused Dickensian dress . |
| 4 | Move the cursor onto the very first letter of the paragraph which is to be joined to the end of the paragraph above it . |
| 5 | He expects the effort to eliminate duplicated research and development efforts and allow resources to be transferred to the development of middleware technologies . |
| 6 | If the Walled Garden and Garden Cottage were to be transferred to the ownership of Oatridge Agricultural because of the previous set out in the above piece of legislation this would have very serious consequences to the capital value of what can only be described as the department 's most valued property asset . |
| 7 | The King , having word of this in advance , provided him with a signet ring which he showed and which entitled the matter to be transferred to the King 's presence , where the accusers were roundly rebuked . |
| 8 | On-going contracts at Warren Spring are likely to be transferred to the NETC , ensuring that work currently underway will continue , including Government contracts such as those for air pollution monitoring . |
| 9 | Mr Mason 's fountain had to be transferred to the centre of Bondgate and replaced by the Tubwell torrentor as featured in the inaugural Fountain of the Week . |
| 10 | He was glad to be transferred to the Army Education Corps after about a year , to discourse , with the rank of sergeant , to soldiers on topics such as ‘ why Turkey will remain neutral ’ , ‘ why Japan has entered the war ’ and so on . |
| 11 | However , where a defendant does not reside or carry on business within the district of the court and he desires the action to be transferred to the court for the district in which he resides or carries on business , he may , after delivering a defence , counterclaim , or request for time for payment , apply ex parte in writing for an order to transfer the action to that court . |
| 12 | It is possible for some urethral discharge from the penis to be transferred to the seat if the male is sitting down ; and if a second male should accidentally touch the same part of the seat soon afterwards with his penis , then infection could be acquired . |
| 13 | One of the common problems encountered in assets sales is determining how the customer and supplier contracts entered into by the vendor are to be transferred to the purchaser . |
| 14 | So when he was told he was going to be transferred to the Sheriff 's Wayside Honor Farm at Castaic , he told reporters , ‘ I 've been pretty happy in the tank here . |
| 15 | Were such laws to be extended to the treatment of humans as well as animals , as suggested by the Williams Committee , the international community might find such an example more appealing . |
| 16 | The combination of the two policies , which are likely to be extended to the rest of Britain , means that land which can support far greater numbers and variety of trees will be available to foresters . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister was heard in silence , and I expect the same courtesy to be extended to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 18 | Announcing that Scottish companies and local authorities had raised more than £230,000 , George Hunter , the Games Council secretary , said that this would allow the time limit for achieving qualifying standards to be extended to the end of December . |
| 19 | Fitness rates in the test schools have already been raised and the project is to be extended to the city 's 50 other primary and special schools . |
| 20 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council a request was made by local residents for the 30 mph speed limit in village to be extended to the section of Gubberford Lane beyond the railway bridge to take in the group of dwellings ending with Woodlands . |
| 21 | President Mitterrand inaugurated France 's high-speed train service between Paris and Lille , soon to be extended to the Channel tunnel . |
| 22 | BY SUGGESTING that women have a monopoly on being civilised , does Tony Parsons not open the door for double standards of judgment to be applied to the behaviour of women and men ? |
| 23 | We could specify in which hand the draw-sheet is to be held , which arm the nurse is to use to support the patient , the degree of tension to be applied to the draw-sheet to make it taut and smooth . |
| 24 | By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother . |
| 25 | Is there an opportunity for an offshore trust structure to be applied to the vendor 's advantage ? |
| 26 | The parsing algorithm specifies the manner in which lexical information is to be retrieved , which grammar rules are to be applied to the input and how the information obtained is to be stored . |
| 27 | The Commission proposes a margin scheme , i.e ; VAT to be applied to the margin between the selling and the purchase price , not to the full price . |
| 28 | At one stage , Labour sheds crocodile tears for the decline in the merchant fleet , yet in the next breath , it says how much more regulation it would like to be applied to the merchant fleet . |
| 29 | On the outside of the barrel , to be turned to the colour you want and slid down to push the lead into the tip . |
| 30 | Is it not short-sighted for both Opposition parties to be pledged to the abolition of this scheme ? |