Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career . |
| 2 | Their contents had mostly been removed to Germany . |
| 3 | Many of their descendants have since been presented to zoos around the world . |
| 4 | She developed courses on child abuse for senior police officers , and distributed a list of ‘ satanic indicators ’ , or signs and symptoms to look out for , which have since been circulated to police forces and social workers across the country . |
| 5 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 6 | Although the art treasures had long since been taken to Moscow , many of the palaces were in ruins after the fearful fighting between the Russians and the Germans . |
| 7 | Three jets recently handled include Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN685 from the British Aerospace Apprentice School at Hawarden , which was moved to the Midland Air Museum , Coventry , and a pair of Folland Gnats T.1s , XP511 and XS109 , which were moved from RAF Halton initially into a storage area at Portsmouth , and have since been exported to Seattle in the USA . |
| 8 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 9 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 10 | As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings . |
| 11 | According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] . |
| 12 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 13 | Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death . |
| 14 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 15 | Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction . |
| 16 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 17 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 20 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |
| 21 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 22 | He was out of breath , had obviously been dispatched to Heathrow in a hurry in case Adam turned up there . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The solution procedure for TRPs can obviously be applied to TPs but certain special features arise from the extra structure . |
| 26 | During the debate , I shall obviously be referring to matters that come within my hon. Friend 's remit , although I shall also be speaking about some of the important issues relating to regional economic and industrial policy which fall within the remit of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 27 | After much haggling , approval was only obtained for those four out of the seven sets which could meet the much higher rate of return which would henceforth be applied to BR investment . |
| 28 | Reference will constantly be made to sections of this Act . |
| 29 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 30 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |