Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 3 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 4 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 5 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 6 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 7 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 8 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 9 | This has not been publicised elsewhere to date , and that is the one redeeming feature of this otherwise unwelcome and ill-considered arrangement . |
| 10 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 11 | There is widespread disbelief among Germany 's camp followers , then , that tonight 's match may not be a complete sell-out at Ibrox in spite of thousands of tickets having been given away to youth organisations . |
| 12 | Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture . |
| 13 | Everything has always been referred back to mother . |
| 14 | Near to the time of operation specific measures are carried out to safeguard patients . |
| 15 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 16 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 18 | The former Community Charge was payable on a variety of days depending on the payment method used and this procedure has been carried forward to Council Tax . |
| 19 | Roadside checks have been carried out to try to discover the identity of a baby found dead in a ditch . |
| 20 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 21 | Research in the USA , however , has shown that the HIV virus can survive , in insufficiently treated sewage which has been pumped out to sea , for up to 12 hours . |
| 22 | Well obviously unemployment is very high in the North East and er all the major health indicators are related directly to income . |
| 23 | Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden . |
| 24 | Reference has been made above to citation peaks — the period during which the largest number of citations is recorded . |
| 25 | This is because the length of the production cycle and the rhythm of the work in agriculture continue to be governed by the seasons of the year except in those branches of the industry which have been turned over to factory farming methods . |
| 26 | Like so many others , by this time Millend had left the cloth trade and , in this case , been turned over to corn and saw milling . |
| 27 | Nearly all of that has been turned over to animal feed . |
| 28 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 29 | Tigers in southern China formerly supplied much of the demand , but they have now been hunted virtually to extinction . |
| 30 | We 're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day . |