Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rather like the American system of presidential elections except that in the American system , the people who are voted for are tied to a particular candidate , so it 's really just erm a convoluted way of having a direct system rather than a genuinely indirect system here . |
| 2 | A MENTALLY handicapped patient choked to death after being tied to a toilet pipe while nurses went to lunch , an inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 3 | Sgt Forth died of his injuries after being called to a disturbance at a house in Gateshead , 12 days ago . |
| 4 | Peter Barron , 19 , of Lancefield Avenue , Newcastle , was remanded in custody for five days by city magistrates yesterday charged with attempting to murder PC Keith Richardson , who was stabbed after being called to a house burglary . |
| 5 | Another five were said to be ‘ very poorly ’ after being transferred to a hospital specialising in infectious diseases . |
| 6 | He was educated at Babbacombe School , Torquay , which he left at fourteen to join the office of George Bridgeman , an architect in Torquay , to whom he returned after being apprenticed to a quantity surveyor in London . |
| 7 | City were looking to make the effort for a promotion spot when entertaining a side from the bottom half of the table , after being held to a draw last week . |
| 8 | I witnessed the entire episode during injury time and Bassett showed commendable restraint after being subjected to a torrent of personal abuse by Chelsea 's yob element . |
| 9 | After being shown to a seat on the balcony , she spent a fascinated five minutes watching three couples on the sunken dance floor . |
| 10 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 11 | After being sold to a Leeds scrapyard in about 1920 the crane became derelict until 1988 when it was salvaged and restored by Dorothea Restoration Engineers . |
| 12 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 13 | Capital values at least have the benefit of being related to a market , although I am sure that many owners will seek to convince their bank managers that their property should be in band H while they seek to convince the rating authorities that their property should really be in band F. |
| 14 | The report states that those who have lived on state pensions , income support or low pay , are most likely to live in the most energy-inefficient homes which are incapable of being heated to a minimum comfort standard . |
| 15 | Since the 1981 Education Act ( see Chapter 4 ) came into force in 1983 , children assessed as having special educational needs are given an individual ‘ statement ’ of these needs instead of being assigned to a category of handicap ( see Chapter 3 , 1978 Warnock ) . |
| 16 | No one will experience the satisfaction of occupying a high social status ; no one will suffer the indignity of being relegated to a position which commands little respect . |
| 17 | In both Europe and the USA we know that patients are too often relegated to palliative care instead of being referred to an oncologist for possibly curative treatment . |
| 18 | This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) . |
| 19 | The Tidemills and Crumbles are both used by industry , the former in the process of being converted to a lorry park , and the latter to provide housing and recreational areas . |
| 20 | This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling . |
| 21 | Since vehicles have been banned for most of the waking day local shoppers and visitors can enjoy a pleasant lead-free atmosphere without fear of being pinned to a wall . |
| 22 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 23 | This repudiation of language is often associated with the more romantic forms of political radicalism , the idea being that language is one of several devices by which the ruling elite manipulates cognitive structures to its own advantage , and that it is only by storming the Bastille of linguistic tradition that human beings have any hope of being restored to a state of primaeval egalitarian fellowship . |
| 24 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |
| 25 | Throughout any individual 's life , relationships and feelings of being attached to a number of significant people are important for our good emotional health . |
| 26 | Bad temper could be either a cause or effect of being admitted to a residential home . |
| 27 | The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed . |
| 28 | R&D is such a system and is capable of being described to a useful extent in catastrophe terms . |
| 29 | Agriculture , the remaining industry to be considered , presents the paradox of being subjected to an enormous apparatus of state regulation while landowners have remained firmly among the leading cadres of the Tory Party . |
| 30 | Diana , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , hopes the boat will encourage more disabled people onto the water . |