Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 2 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 3 | Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death . |
| 4 | Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |
| 6 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 7 | Kendall ( 1986 ) reminds us that accidents in infancy are related to what the child can do , so are related to stage of development , and quotes the relative incidence : |
| 8 | Do n't stuff yourself with doughnuts or chocolate , or anything to which you are unaccustomed , or indeed anything to which you are accustomed but which you might suddenly be tempted to gorge in distorted amounts . |
| 9 | Type in a filename and the graph template will be saved in memory and will only be stored to disk when you save it again . |
| 10 | In contrast to neighbouring Cuxton , where a most important Palaeolithic site was discovered in 1962 , the prehistory of Hailing as known at present can only be shown to date from Neolithic , or New Stone Age , times . |
| 11 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 12 | The new symbols NT , USE need not necessarily be transferred to library catalogues where traditional entries can still be made . |
| 13 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 14 | Cows and calves inside were led to safety , and it was some hours later that firemen discovered a body in the debris . |
| 15 | At one point the driver slammed on the brakes causing the police car behind to run into the back of the vehicle … the car was badly damaged … the two officers inside were taken to hospital for treatment to whiplash injuries . |
| 16 | Robert Spence 's Swordfish C-GEVS ( see the August issue ) had not gained its Permit to Fly on August 31 so was restricted to taxi-ing at Muirkirk , Ontario , during the Labour Day fly-in . |
| 17 | He welcomed the fact that VAT had not been extended to food and that there would be no increase in employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 18 | This provides not only a familiar and welcome face to people who have not been exposed to library services but also provides a medium of communication through the use of community languages . |
| 19 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 20 | The control lanes show mainly full-length transcripts arising from elongation of the initiated transcription complex which had not been subjected to drug treatment . |
| 21 | The ebenficial effect of this practice on activity of disease and linear growth has not been subjected to confirmation in a controlled trial . |
| 22 | Music without slurs and dynamics looks dead , because it has not been brought to life . |
| 23 | As the students have not been introduced to prepayment at this stage in any detail it is better if the former assumption is made . |
| 24 | His interests have not been confined to chest disease and smoking , however : Professor Fletcher has been a tireless campaigner for better communications between patients and doctors . |
| 25 | In Canada , for example , the Auditor General Act of 1977 requires the Auditor General to report to the House of Commons when : ‘ money has been expended without due regard to economy or efficiency , or satisfactory procedures have not been established to measure and report the effectiveness of programs , where such procedures could appropriately and reasonably be implemented ’ . |
| 26 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 27 | But the preservation of Iona 's unique qualities has not been left to chance . |
| 28 | Aretha Franklin she was not — but the myth that her voice was never an ingredient on any of her hits had finally been laid to rest . |
| 29 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that the doctrine of fundamental breach , as a rule of law , has finally been laid to rest by Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , and it would now appear that fundamental breach is relevant only as a factor to be considered in the construction of the contract . |
| 30 | From the records of the Crown Court , Bradford , comes news that Mr D BOWIE has finally been brought to book for his current misdemeanours . |