Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 2 | Note how blacks are invested with vastly exaggerated powers of social combination whilst the ethnic majority are reduced to minority status — ‘ just our lot from the estate ’ . |
| 3 | A number of teachers have of course been exposed to discovery methods , the principles of new maths and new science ; there is , however , a strong countervailing trend in which pupils know from their CPE texts what are the answers , the definitions of the scientific laws , and increasingly regard as a waste of time proving by rudimentary experiments what they already know . |
| 4 | The eleven faculty members who made the decision are sworn to secrecy . |
| 5 | This fact , and the decay-rate restrictions discussed below , lie behind the paucity of experimental evidence on Ikeda instabilities : only in two all-optical systems ( both pulsed rather than continuous-wave ) has 2tR oscillation and chaos been observed to date . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the first year , students who have made satisfactory progress are transferred to M.Phil or Ph.D . |
| 7 | Does he agree that it would be an act of the most amazing folly to tamper with the provisions that currently apply , and yet that is exactly what the Opposition are committed to doing if they win the general election ? |
| 8 | Although most patients who are brought to the attention of their doctors after an attempt are referred to hospital , a proportion are dealt with by general practitioners ( p. 10 ) . |
| 9 | Essentially all previous studies of the Prisoners ' Dilemma are confined to individuals or organized groups who can remember past encounters , who have high probabilities of future encounters ( with little discounting of future pay-offs ) , and who use these facts to underpin more-or-less elaborate strategies of cooperation or defection . |
| 10 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 11 | Every new partner should ensure that his terms of partnership are reduced to writing . |
| 12 | It is not known whether retrovirus can be assembled in which all the subunits of the viral envelope protein are fused to antibody , and if so whether the virus would infect cells . |
| 13 | They will be based on MUMPS database and programming language , using DataTree 's client/server software and Greystone 's host-based system software which wlil be adapted to Sequoia 's systems ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 14 | Advantage : the toilet is within the house and could in the future be connected to sewers rather than a soakway . |
| 15 | Although the two companies hinted that further products might in future be ported to Solaris , nothing appears to have been agreed so far . |
| 16 | It recommends that workers in the nuclear and radiological industries should in future be limited to exposure of 20 millisieverts a year , as opposed to 50 at present . |
| 17 | Why should the same weight be given to Harry 's second preference or Dick 's fifth as to Tom 's first " ? |
| 18 | His lawyer made a further complaint , alleging harassment , and urged that those responsible for the torture be brought to justice . |
| 19 | An arrestable offence is defined as one for which a person may by virtue of any statute be sentenced to imprisonment for at least five years , or an attempt to commit such an offence . |
| 20 | So , too , is the workload being devolved to Cabinet committees . |
| 21 | Rudder speaks of the manor being given to Flaxley Abbey by the Earl of Hereford , and that the ‘ Abbat had a grant of an iron forge and of two oaks every week out of the Forest of Dean , for the maintenance of the forge , of King Henry the Second ’ . |
| 22 | In man , X could be a newly acquired possibility ( e.g. human cloning or hang-gliding ) , perceived by some individuals as being socially undesirable , the perception being communicated to others linguistically . |
| 23 | I entirely agree with er my honourable friend , er not only er is the lower non-wage cost a reason for inward investment being attracted to Britain but it 's also why together with our general economic policy , why workers in Britain enjoy in real terms , some of the best take home pay packets in Europe . |
| 24 | Starting with the categories of information used in this form individual comments from both the description and potential risks condition were assigned to categories . |
| 25 | Certificates of Recommendation were awarded to Thomas Mundy , aged 60 , for the rescue of a boy aged 3 from a mill lode at Hull on 4th April 1906 ; Charles Pain in 1920 for saving a woman attempting suicide , and to Howard Swinbourne , aged 34 , for saving a suicidal woman from the River Trent at Nottingham on 20th May 1985 . |
| 26 | Mr Fallon , a junior education minister , puts the figure being lost to Darlington schools at around £700,000 each year . |
| 27 | I thought ‘ oh no , not all the way back to the east end of London and risk my car being smashed to bits ’ , but there was Jim and Paul Simpson on the left , dazzling , running rings around those irons . |
| 28 | Offering being made to temple idol by attending priest . |
| 29 | 22 non-sick inmates of the institution were sent to Ampthill , and 88 to Biggleswade , while six children were transferred to the Kempston Children 's Home . |
| 30 | In the unlikely event of an alternative Administration being returned to power and seeking to get talks started , on the basis of my experience over the past two years I wish the hon. Gentleman well . |