Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally , an animal sanctuary threatened with closure because of a cash shortage has been saved thanks to Central South viewers . |
| 2 | The total area of the site which has been developed runs to about 60,000 sq ft . |
| 3 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 4 | Secondly , Parliament provided machinery for administration in the situation where the power to appoint a receiver does not exist , or where the power does exist but has not been exercised , or where the power has been exercised , but the person by whom or on whose behalf the receiver has been appointed consents to an order being made . |
| 5 | I understand that Ove Arup has been appointed consultants to the Welsh Office to evaluate various options/routes , and that you are a member of the company 's team assigned to this task . |
| 6 | A firm , such as a firm of accountants that has been appointed auditors to a company , can be an expert : see 3.4 . |
| 7 | ‘ In ophthalmology there have been some problems but a new consultant has been appointed thanks to increased funding made available by this government . |
| 8 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 9 | He has been given instructions to this effect . |
| 10 | THE secret night-life of salmon has been revealed thanks to infra-red cameras . |
| 11 | The new post at the polytechnic 's School of Science and Technology has been created thanks to Mr Richard Lines , executive chairman of MTM , the Hutton Rudby firm . |
| 12 | But since 1987 there has been added impetus to the development of the Taurus programme , triggered largely by the post-Big Bang boom in share dealing and the subsequent crash in 1987 . |
| 13 | Under section 7 of the Act of 1980 , the parent of a child who has been refused admission to an aided school is given a right of appeal to an appeal committee against ‘ any decision made by or on behalf of the governors refusing … the child admission to ’ the school . |
| 14 | Gosatomnadzor , the regulator which was given responsibility for civil and military materials last June , has been refused access to some military inventories . |
| 15 | Aprlow , Buckinghamshire-based SynOptics Communications UK Ltd has cut the price of its LattisNet family of FDDI intelligent hubs : the list price of the Model 2912A Workgroup Hub has been reduced 36% to £9,950 and the FDDI Fibre Optic Host module is down 27% to £5,535 ; the FDDI Network Management Module now costs £9,950 , a 33% reduction . |
| 16 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 17 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 18 | For example , a retailer may have been refused access to a selective distribution network on grounds which his lawyers advise the retailer are inadequate . |
| 19 | On Sept. 19 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , appointed by Pérez de Cuéllar to take charge of humanitarian aid , abandoned an attempt to assess the humanitarian needs of foreign refugees in Iraq and Kuwait , having been denied entry to Iraq . ) |
| 20 | Sunday morning say the start of the ladies ' competition with St Albans A and Mutineers going through to the semis to play St Albans B and Woodmill respectively , the latter two having been given byes to this stage . |
| 21 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |
| 22 | ‘ ABSOLUTELY delighted ’ is how David Taylor , Manager of Telford Branch described his reaction on hearing that his Branch had been appointed bankers to the Princess Royal Hospital , due to become a NHS Trust on 1 April . |
| 23 | John Glynn of Morval had been appointed Under-Steward to the Duchy of Cornwall during the disturbed days of the Wars of the Roses . |
| 24 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 25 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 26 | Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you . |
| 27 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 28 | Moreover , once health authorities had been granted powers to ‘ buy in ’ services , then the question of the accountability to local publics of their purchasing decisions was raised . |
| 29 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 30 | And then later he had been bound apprentice to Ninereeds the Masteraccount , who in his grey-mindedness was everything that dragons were not , and there was no time for dreaming . |