Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 2 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 3 | Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death . |
| 4 | Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Type in a filename and the graph template will be saved in memory and will only be stored to disk when you save it again . |
| 10 | In contrast to neighbouring Cuxton , where a most important Palaeolithic site was discovered in 1962 , the prehistory of Hailing as known at present can only be shown to date from Neolithic , or New Stone Age , times . |
| 11 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 12 | The new symbols NT , USE need not necessarily be transferred to library catalogues where traditional entries can still be made . |
| 13 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 14 | Cows and calves inside were led to safety , and it was some hours later that firemen discovered a body in the debris . |
| 15 | At one point the driver slammed on the brakes causing the police car behind to run into the back of the vehicle … the car was badly damaged … the two officers inside were taken to hospital for treatment to whiplash injuries . |
| 16 | Robert Spence 's Swordfish C-GEVS ( see the August issue ) had not gained its Permit to Fly on August 31 so was restricted to taxi-ing at Muirkirk , Ontario , during the Labour Day fly-in . |
| 17 | Aretha Franklin she was not — but the myth that her voice was never an ingredient on any of her hits had finally been laid to rest . |
| 18 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that the doctrine of fundamental breach , as a rule of law , has finally been laid to rest by Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , and it would now appear that fundamental breach is relevant only as a factor to be considered in the construction of the contract . |
| 19 | From the records of the Crown Court , Bradford , comes news that Mr D BOWIE has finally been brought to book for his current misdemeanours . |
| 20 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |
| 21 | According to the study , Brits generally are addicted to shopping preferring it even to sex ! |
| 22 | The financial allocations for 1992-93 have already been given to member states and plans and programmes are being prepared on a minimum change basis . |
| 23 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 24 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 25 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 26 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 27 | The show has already been sold to Sky Television , a couple of cable networks and a European Satellite channel . |
| 28 | Hitherto , provision of adult deaf organisations had largely been confined to church services and other pastoral services , but in 1871 , a most important step was taken with the founding of Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Football Club , the first sports dub for the deaf in this country . |
| 29 | Do they do this purposely cos that man 's just been sent to prison the same thing is n't it ? |
| 30 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |