Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 2 | The platinum fabrication operations previously carried out in Brussels have been successfully moved to Royston , where we now have a single manufacturing site able to serve the whole of Europe . |
| 3 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 4 | Two bZIP proteins ( ATF-1 and CREM ) which are highly related to CREB are known to form heterodimers with CREB ( 28 , 29 , 30 ) . |
| 5 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 6 | Possibly , as someone new to The Smiths and their legacy , I simply am not used to Moz 's sense of humour but , really , that joke 's not funny anymore . |
| 7 | The territories beyond the Oder-Neisse line are already lost to Germany . |
| 8 | In Tolkien 's poem , accordingly , the words are not given to Beorhtwold but form part of a dream dreamt by the poet Torhthelm : |
| 9 | Third party treaty claims are not limited to States ; other participants in the international arena may make similar claims . |
| 10 | It is important to stress that Biraderi relationships amongst Pakistani immigrants are not restricted to Britain but serve to connect Britain with Pakistan . |
| 11 | Exchange possibilities are not restricted to ERASMUS ; currently a small number of Edinburgh students study in the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Georgetown University , Washington DC , Queen 's University , Ontario and the University of California ( restricted to students in the Faculty of Science & Engineering ) . |
| 12 | These fantasies are not confined to Britain . |
| 13 | Hawaiian-type eruptions are not confined to Hawaii , although in few other areas are fire fountains quite so beautifully developed . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're not allowed to Hana , it 's against the law ! ’ |
| 15 | HARMONY IN MY HEAD Brian May I spoke to Brian May on the day the news broke that his guitar had been mistakenly despatched to France by a roadie , to await an uncertain fate at the hands of ‘ lost and found ’ … |
| 16 | Your Board is supported by an able and dedicated team of executives who are totally committed to Palatine and its objectives . |
| 17 | The first of the preliminary sketches for the Demoiselles , on the other hand , suggest that at first Picasso may have been more drawn to Cézanne 's earlier , more romantic figure pieces . |
| 18 | It would be possible for it to be installed in Canterbury as the majority of calls coming into London are usually transferred to Canterbury anyway . |
| 19 | This new access , along with the proposed cross harbour road and rail bridges , shall ensure that all parts of the Harbour Estate are directly linked to Northern Ireland 's motorway system . |
| 20 | Once confirmed , transactions are automatically passed to Midland for allocation of funds to the relevant accounts . |
| 21 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 22 | FIFA president Joao Havelange and general secretary Sepp Blatter were holding a crisis meeting at the time with UEFA officials and French federation president Jean Fournet-Fayard , who had been urgently summoned to Zurich . |
| 23 | Readers are also referred to Smith ( 1985 ) for a full and very personal account of the broad ethical issues which he feels are raised when white academic researchers study poor non-white minority communities in Britain . |
| 24 | Frontline , produced quarterly , has 14,000 readers , mainly Dixons staff in Britain , through copies are also sent to Silo , the company 's American subsidiary , and to City analysts and stockbrokers . |
| 25 | Silvio Bedini has commented that ‘ although the invention of the candle timepiece has been traditionally ascribed to Alfred the Great of England , it obviously had an earlier history in the Orient ’ . |
| 26 | For example , scoter are mainly confined to East Sussex and mergansers to West Sussex , and most dabbling ducks are noted in Rye Bay , off Cuckmere Haven , and the Church Norton/Selsey area . |
| 27 | These are mainly confined to Afghanistan and north-east Persia , although some genuine Russian tribal items may also be found , and are predominantly the work of the Tekke , Yamut , Ersari , Chodor , Saryk and Salor tribes ( pl. 7 ) . |
| 28 | Evidence shows that people are often brought to Christ by membership of such a group . |
| 29 | Diplomatic bags are routinely sent to Wandsworth prison for laundering . |
| 30 | Those with a surplus gave to the English poor with the same mixture of motives with which donations are now made to Oxfam . |