Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mr and Mrs Bloggs are eventually summoned to the teacher 's desk they are asked what they thought of the work . |
| 2 | Russian Turkomans are normally marketed as either Bokharas or Beshirs , depending on their design , and those made in Afghanistan are generally referred to as Afghans or Bokharas , although they may be named after the specific weaving village or tribe ( Kundous , Beshir , etc ) . |
| 3 | Our two Vice-Chairs , Barbara , and Kay are well known to all of you . |
| 4 | The activities of the NL were primarily restricted to private meetings in 1938 , although it was connected with the Militant Christian Patriots at the end of the Munich Crisis when it urged Chamberlain not to get Britain involved in Jewish designs for a world war . |
| 5 | After the collapse of their authoritarian dictatorships in the mid-1970s , Spain and Portugal were also admitted to membership . |
| 6 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 7 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 8 | Northamptonshire is often referred to as the County of ‘ Spires and Squires ’ , but village churches often have towers . |
| 9 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 10 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
| 11 | TI is also thought to be working with Sybase , another Cooperative partner . |
| 12 | Another early theorist was W Raymond Drake , whose 1964 book Gods or Spacemen is heartily recommended to those in search of innocent mirth . |
| 13 | NEC is also said to be negotiating with various US relational database vendors to put their products up under NEC 's version of Unix System V.4 . |
| 14 | NEC is also expected to OEM CDS and SGI/MIPS products for the Japanese market . |
| 15 | Moving right up to date , Johnny is now signed to Virgin 's Point Blank label , and his first release — titled ‘ Let Me In ’ — has already been nominated for a Grammy award . |
| 16 | DEF is well known to us and would be a different sort of purchaser giving you the German influence . |
| 17 | The marketability of Freud is also thought to be suffering due to the artist 's recent penchant for painting the backside of performance artist Leigh Bowery , a subject of seemingly little appeal to traditional Freud collectors . |
| 18 | Freud is often referred to as the grandfather of psychoanalysis , and his research and theories changed the way we think about ourselves . |
| 19 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 20 | OSF is now believed to be looking for a commercial partner to take over and productise the technology , which is much-needed within the industry . |
| 21 | LASMO 's interest in Syria is now confined to the Al Bishri block . |
| 22 | It was not until Lady Diana Spencer was formally engaged to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales that she was given permission to call him ‘ Charles ’ . |
| 23 | Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter-connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . |
| 24 | ‘ David Markham was once engaged to my sister Jennifer , that 's all . ’ |
| 25 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 26 | Here we have the notion that as the system of technology ( the domestication of animals and the formation of herds ) develops , it becomes incompatible with the social system , especially the system of inheritance and familial authority , This growing incompatibility , or contradiction , then leads to a revolutionary change in the social system , in this case the change to father right , a system which according to Morgan and Engels was better adapted to pastoralism . |
| 27 | A bishopric was not re-created at Ripon ( perhaps because a papal privilege was now recognized as protecting the monastery there ) , but Wilfrid was never restored to York during Aldfrith 's reign . |
| 28 | But it has been seen that Picasso was also attracted to tribal sculpture because he admired its conceptual quality . |
| 29 | Unlike his father , Richard was genuinely committed to the crusading cause . |
| 30 | He told reporters the United States was still committed to getting enforcement of the no-fly zone but he left the impression US allies were still opposed . |