Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to [noun prp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was out of breath , had obviously been dispatched to Heathrow in a hurry in case Adam turned up there . |
| 10 | The solution procedure for TRPs can obviously be applied to TPs but certain special features arise from the extra structure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was constantly being compared to Brando , and vice-versa , which outraged him , and now Jimmy Dean was being hailed as the new Clift and the new Brando . |
| 13 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 14 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 15 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 16 | He has eliminated a whole ‘ study section ’ , which included works after , and attributed to , Ribera ; there are no prints , and a number of paintings , which in Naples were hung as autograph , have not been invited to Spain . |
| 17 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 18 | Parliamentary sovereignty had not been ceded to Brussels but merely delegated . |
| 19 | Would Jennifer Jones have won five nominations and one Oscar ( The Song of Bernadette , 1943 ) , if she had not been married to David O Selznick ? |
| 20 | The epidemic had not been confined to Bedford . |
| 21 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 22 | And why has King James 's body not been returned to Scotland for burial ? ’ |
| 23 | Dexel , a cellulose acetate moulding compound , manufactured at the Little Heath , Coventry , plant in the UK , had not been exported to America for three years . |
| 24 | Will the right hon. Gentleman stop juggling and manipulating figures and pretending that large-scale assistance has already been given to Lanarkshire ? |
| 25 | They had converted them into a fine house , which had been requisitioned by the Germans : the officer in charge was a Captain Foghel who , by the time we were taken to Tabiano , had already been transferred to Bologna . |
| 26 | Developed for MVS mainframes , Huron has already been ported to Intel 80486 machines , with an IBM RS/6000 version due in the first half of this year . |
| 27 | Sales have already been made to Abu Dhabi and Egypt and for several other projects in Saudi Arabia , and ESP expects the Middle East to be an increasingly important market for their products and services in the future . |
| 28 | This will emable 35mm film to be used together with video , sound and animation in many sorts of software.The Photo-CD technology has already been licensed to Fuji and Agfa . |
| 29 | By this time , Bauthumley had probably returned to Leicester , where the tract had already been sent to London as ‘ very dangerous … a very wide door to atheism and profaneness ’ . |
| 30 | However , messages had already been sent to Kinghorn instructing the purveyor to be on the beach with horses ready for the King , hours before the Council convened . |