Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I 'd recovered I was skinnier than ever , having been rationed to an orange a day . |
| 2 | Charges against him were dropped in May 1988 after a meeting between the Crown Prosecution Service and the force complaints department , because his alleged confession had been given to an officer , Det Sgt James McManus , who was already under investigation in another case . |
| 3 | It is the first time that the Stylesetter Award has been given to an Axminster carpet range . |
| 4 | Sometimes technical disputes are referred to an expert , while all other kinds of disputes go to arbitration or litigation : this may be useful in giving an appropriate forum of dispute resolution for whatever dispute arises . |
| 5 | However , in cases where all technical disputes are referred to an expert for determination , and those where all disputes , technical and non-technical are referred , it is uncommon to find provisions allowing the parties to make representations to the expert . |
| 6 | The name does not transliterate into any other language , and the advertising has been assigned to an agency without a real European capability . |
| 7 | Referring to Figure 5 , it will be seen that there must be two places , one on either side of the tip of the extra sheet , where the atoms are distorted to an angle which approximates to the theoretical shearing strength of the crystal . |
| 8 | The jury had been confined to an hotel overnight and , in the judgment of Lord Lane , C.J. , any risk of prejudice was capable of being overcome by denying it access to radio and television . |
| 9 | It has been confined to an interpretation of the specific regulations . |
| 10 | Suppose that I am committed to an ideal of conserving areas of natural beauty or variegated wild life in my country . |
| 11 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 12 | Our observations are related to an issue that we believe has been unduly neglected — the question of how completely we interpret texts . |
| 13 | This will be particularly relevant where an EPO has been granted to an applicant representing another agency such as the NSPCC or to a private individual . |
| 14 | These signals are sampled , ourier transformed , and following data reordering , are presented to an image display device . |
| 15 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 16 | As in this condition , functional renal failure in acute liver failure has been related to an imbalance between neurohumoral factors with renal vasoconstrictive activity and renal vasodilators . |
| 17 | Then the n words beginning at the source address are transferred to an area beginning at the destination address . |
| 18 | Lights , camera , action — you 're invited to an audience in the Food & Drink studio , with the chance to win a super raffle prize |
| 19 | They were withdrawn almost immediately , but not before one of them had been sold to an unkown customer . |
| 20 | And she told me that , while working at another bank , she had once been summoned to an office four flights away . |
| 21 | Every single action the Profitboss performs , every single decision he makes and everything he says are geared to an end-result . |
| 22 | TULLYCARNET residents are invited to an information evening at the local primary school on Tuesday ( September 14 ) between 6–9pm . |
| 23 | Henry worked at the Foreign Office in London , where ambiguity had been raised to an art form . |
| 24 | The report , which was subsequently sent out to subscribers , has been compared to an auctioneer 's catalogue , and dismissed as uninformative and useless . |
| 25 | Midway between Borneo and New Guinea sprawls the great four-limbed landmass of Celebes , which has variously been compared to an orchid , or a spider , depending on your perspective . |
| 26 | This aircraft is reported to have been shipped to an East Coast workshop where work is currently under way with a view to making it fly again . |
| 27 | Finally , much work of research and exposition during the period had been devoted to an attempt to recover in full what each author meant through exhaustive biography , critical survey , and detailed examination of the author 's particular achievement . |
| 28 | Since 1985 profits growth in the division has been restricted to an average of less than 5 per cent a year and as 40 per cent of revenues come from the US the one third fall in the dollar over the period obviously affected the outcome as have rising R&D costs . |
| 29 | ‘ To my mind , it is a virtual certainty that the partnership 's operations would have been brought to an end , in one way or another , within a relatively short time after … |
| 30 | The Wars of the Roses had been brought to an end by the victory of Henry VII , and his dynasty was to last until 1603 . |