Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being bound apprentice to the barber-surgeon Edward Nourse , he rose to become master of anatomy to the Corporation of Surgeons and , for nearly forty years , Surgeon to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 2 | THREE gravely ill patients died after being refused admission to a cash-starved intensive care unit . |
| 3 | He was in a Niagara Falls jail yesterday waiting to hear if he would be sent back to Britain after being refused entry to America . |
| 4 | This is especially true if the pilot turns out to be a young lady and the shock of what-might-have-been gives rise to tears during her interview with the investigator . |
| 5 | Curiously , his father had also been one of three captains in a series against West Indies ; he , though , had not suffered the indignity of being refused admission to the car park at the ground because the attendant did not recognize him . |
| 6 | He also ruled that Noriega 's lawyers must obtain the court 's approval before being given access to classified government documents connected with the case . |
| 7 | But the Clinton proposals were reported to be causing concern to Saudi Arabia , the world 's largest oil exporter , which may seek a dialogue with Western nations on issues of petroleum supply and taxation . |
| 8 | The losers were Liverpool citizens who continued to be denied access to a public facility . |
| 9 | Peter Jay , who was plucked from the economic editorship of The Times by his father-in-law , Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan , to be made ambassador to Washington , recalls the feelings clearly : |
| 10 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
| 11 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 12 | Lucky thing to be made love to by Drew on it , Daisy was appalled to find herself thinking . |
| 13 | You want to be made love to . |
| 14 | In the Ministry of all the Talents his reward was to be made secretary to the Board of Control , 1806–7 . |
| 15 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 16 | Mr. Beloff submits that the requirement of notice to bodies , such as Winchester , was necessary to ensure that they did not breach the intervention notice , but in my view the limitation of the category of those entitled to be given notice to persons who will be prejudicially affected can only mean that it is the prejudice which brings with it the necessity to serve . |
| 17 | Women , the working class , Black and ethnic minority communities were at last to be given access to the language and the medium of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | This gov this government should support an application for all British yards to be given access to the intervention funding or shortly there will be no major ship building facilities at all in the U K , and hopefully no John Ma the i John Major either . |
| 19 | An official opening of the new station is now being arranged and the old station is to be declared surplus to requirements . |
| 20 | A list of users who have to be granted access to DC information must be specified in the RDBI configuration file . |
| 21 | Edit the RDBI configuration file to include a DC ACCESS keyword ( and details of any users who have to be granted access to DC information ) . |
| 22 | A list of users who have to be granted access to module information must be specified in the RDBI configuration file . |
| 23 | Edit the RDBI configuration file to include a MODULE ACCESS keyword ( and details of any users who have to be granted access to module information ) . |
| 24 | A list of users who have to be granted access to user information must be specified in the RDBI configuration file . |
| 25 | Edit the RDBI configuration file to include a USER ACCESS keyword ( and details of any users who have to be granted access to user information ) . |
| 26 | We have already seen the difficulties of drawing a neat dividing line between semantics and pragmatics ; given the cross-cutting criteria of conventionality and non-defeasibility ( see again Table I.I ) , the best strategy seems to be to restrict semantics to truth-conditional content . |
| 27 | A statue in the round was surely conceived as in some sense a being to be met face to face , so was designed primarily to be seen from in front . |
| 28 | And then , because she did n't want to be saying goodbye to him any sooner than she had to , she took him for a wander through the main part of the Hall to see how the preparations were going . |
| 29 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 30 | A self-uglifying expression of humility — plus an elaborate show of stealthiness which is as good as saying ‘ Yes , I am late — and please pay attention to my performance of humbly not wishing to be paid attention to ’ , i.e. Here 's me entering as unostentatiously as I know how — so you can see how much I regret my rudeness ! ’ |