Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career .
2 Their contents had mostly been removed to Germany .
3 Many of their descendants have since been presented to zoos around the world .
4 She developed courses on child abuse for senior police officers , and distributed a list of ‘ satanic indicators ’ , or signs and symptoms to look out for , which have since been circulated to police forces and social workers across the country .
5 Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John .
6 Although the art treasures had long since been taken to Moscow , many of the palaces were in ruins after the fearful fighting between the Russians and the Germans .
7 Three jets recently handled include Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN685 from the British Aerospace Apprentice School at Hawarden , which was moved to the Midland Air Museum , Coventry , and a pair of Folland Gnats T.1s , XP511 and XS109 , which were moved from RAF Halton initially into a storage area at Portsmouth , and have since been exported to Seattle in the USA .
8 Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ?
9 He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation .
10 As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings .
11 According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] .
12 The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime .
13 Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death .
14 Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction .
15 In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church .
16 The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective .
17 Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization .
18 We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species .
19 The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction .
20 He was out of breath , had obviously been dispatched to Heathrow in a hurry in case Adam turned up there .
21 Kendall ( 1986 ) reminds us that accidents in infancy are related to what the child can do , so are related to stage of development , and quotes the relative incidence :
22 Do n't stuff yourself with doughnuts or chocolate , or anything to which you are unaccustomed , or indeed anything to which you are accustomed but which you might suddenly be tempted to gorge in distorted amounts .
23 The solution procedure for TRPs can obviously be applied to TPs but certain special features arise from the extra structure .
24 After much haggling , approval was only obtained for those four out of the seven sets which could meet the much higher rate of return which would henceforth be applied to BR investment .
25 Reference will constantly be made to sections of this Act .
26 There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW .
27 Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability .
28 Opinion on an individual 's functioning can only be given to others with that person 's consent .
29 Should only be given to babies that can be observed easily in a room in which staff are always present .
30 Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty .
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