Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 2 | Despite that , surprisingly few complaints about discrimination are made to industrial tribunals each year . |
| 3 | Learning to value the skills they have developed through running a home and family was just one of thousands of options for change being offered to women at Colchester Town Hall on an Education Day organised as part of this year 's Adult Learners ’ Week . |
| 4 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 5 | Further , land inside the older towns was acquiring a scarcity value , above all in the towns that were surrounded by open fields , so that they could not grow outwards ( see Chapter 9 ) , and a steady rise in the price of land for building was added to the rise in the price of borrowed money . |
| 6 | When the estimated value of £472.6 million for whisky is added to the total of £351.3 million for other exports , the cumulative total comes to £823.9 million for Grampian exports — 9.6% of all Scottish exports . |
| 7 | One reason why she brought Michael Heseltine in as Secretary of State for Defence is said to be his ability as a public-relations man . |
| 8 | Although Meyer remained Minister of Communications , his responsibilities for Defence were given to a Gene Louw , hitherto Home Affairs Minister , who was also named as Minister of Public Works . |
| 9 | The tact that the effect survives a contextual change so readily encourages acknowledgement of the possibility that a non-associative process ( such as differentiation is presumed to be ) may be in part responsible for it . |
| 10 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 11 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 12 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and are stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 13 | In May 1976 the first exploration licences specifically for uranium were issued to Maugh Ltd , a subsidiary of the French company Minatome , a company which in turn was partly owned by Total , the French state-owned oil company . |
| 14 | Paper rolls for printing are delivered to a 1,200 sq m storage area at the lower level and finished newspapers are packed into bundles and dispatched by lorry from the top level . |
| 15 | A third of all prescriptions for cimetidine were given to patients with unproven peptic ulceration , and furthermore , half of these had used the drug for more than five years . |
| 16 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 17 | Since the demand for money is related to several variables , according to Friedman and the monetarists , then it may be difficult to measure the precise effect of a change in one of these variables on the demand for money . |
| 18 | A petition calling for action was sent to Middlesbrough Council seven years ago . |
| 19 | The union request for recognition was referred to ACAS which sent questionnaires to union members at Grunwick 's but not to the rest of the workers because the employers would not supply ACAS with their names and addresses . |
| 20 | An internal system of control of a business should be designed to ensure that the policies of the management are being followed , that financial records are accurate , that the assets of the company have been safeguarded and that the opportunities for fraud are kept to a minimum . |
| 21 | Whether in fact any such obligations have been created depends on the construction of the lease ; and there is nothing which requires the lease to be constructed in such a way as to avoid , if possible , the creation of such obligations ( Bradshaw v Pawley [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 10 , where liability for rent was held to be retrospective ) . |
| 22 | Claims for bereavement are restricted to a narrower class ( see 2.15 below ) . |
| 23 | In this case a terminal branch containing appropriate written and syntactic information about tea is attached to the node containing the pronunciation of teacher , at the point where the input word ended . |
| 24 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 25 | The three sessions allocated to the project after Christmas were reduced to two by other unavoidable activities in both schools . |
| 26 | Some specialists will both advise on which sherds are to be drawn and will do the drawings required , but otherwise the selected sherds are sent to an archaeological illustrator while the reports for archive and for publication are returned to the excavator . |
| 27 | I think the best place for Tyrion is attached to a cavalry unit such as the Silver Helms or Dragon Princes . |
| 28 | Their request for assistance was referred to a circuit judge who in turn referred it to Ward J. who was sitting in the same circuit centre . |
| 29 | In June the 1992 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture was presented to Peter Rice . |
| 30 | This needs a good deal of confidence on the part of the teacher , but is very productive as real responsibility for decision-making is transferred to the children . |