Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 2 | For practical reasons , therefore , damages have been limited to disgorgement of profits . |
| 3 | While little detailed work has been undertaken to date on the nature of these population movements , preliminary research carried out by the investigator in Costa Rica in 1987 with support from the Nuffield Foundation suggests that migration patterns have been strongly differentiated along lines of gender : whereas men have tended to migrate out of Guanacastle , at least on a temporary basis , many women appear to have moved permanently to towns within the region itself . |
| 4 | The lad on its back , dolled up as King William , had been crushed to death against the wall . |
| 5 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 6 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 7 | The newspaper Sovietsky Sport reported on July 8 , 1989 , that up to 340 people had been crushed to death in a stand of the Lenin Stadium in Moscow during a football match on Oct. 20 , 1982 . |
| 8 | The issues are limited to interpretation of the words of the expert clause or other relevant parts of the original contract , or the interpretation of terms of reference or other agreed procedure . |
| 9 | More recently , however , such theories have been extensively criticized ; the concept of development has been broadened again to take account of social and cultural , as well as economic , features ; and more attention has been given to development as a world-wide process in which there is a close interrelationship between events in different regions . |
| 10 | It is possible a feeling existed that too much attention had been given to development in the western and most populous counties in the District . |
| 11 | In this case , however , a clue has been given to declarer in the earlier bidding . |
| 12 | Civil mobile systems are at an early stage of development but a low power band has been proposed , centred on 3.455GHz , and consideration has also been given to operation of future land mobile systems around 3.4GHz . |
| 13 | In terms of the future of formal education , priority has been given to achievement of non-racial education , and neither questions of female access and achievement , nor the gendered content of educational materials , have been given much attention . |
| 14 | Several groups of Communes are in the LFA Zone de Montagne ; in the Rochefort-Montagne Commune of Puy-de-Dome much encouragement has been given to remembrement by M. Giscard d'Estaing who resides in the area and is in favour of ‘ progressive ’ agriculture . |
| 15 | Juvenile lawlessness , he thought , represented ‘ a serious challenge , the difficulty of which is intensified by the extension of freedom which , for better or worse , has been given to youth in the last generation ’ . |
| 16 | In published series of patients with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain there is an excess of womeh who have had a hysterectomy but this may be because women who are referred to hospital with these disorders tend to be anxious and polysymptomatic . |
| 17 | Reference to Table 13 indicates that almost as many males as females are referred to hospital after self-cutting . |
| 18 | They are aroused to activity by others , by friendship , by relating . |
| 19 | The structurally equivalent residues in rat CD2 may be identified by sequence alignment and Fig.5 b indicates the sidechain positions for those that are exposed to solvent in the sCD2 structure . |
| 20 | The most important feature is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of the cow , with subsequent milk-borne transmission ensuring that calves are exposed to infection from the first day of life . |
| 21 | Some of the Phocaeans had been stoned to death by the Etruscans of Caere , traditional philhellenes ; some had to move to Elea in southern Italy . |
| 22 | Also , while being transported by wind , it will have been exposed to sunlight for a considerable time prior to deposition . |
| 23 | People in northern climes , on the other hand , are unlikely to have been exposed to leprosy in every-day life and a positive result in the test is bound to be due to vaccination . |
| 24 | Let it get gamey and he 's erm Chinese assistant the person who has been assigned to sort of look after him and do his do his translating and things like that took it down and buried it cause they did n't eat rotten meat they did |
| 25 | POLICE hunting the killer of a champion Ayrshire cow believe it may have been slashed to death by a jealous farmer . |
| 26 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 27 | On 18 February 1791 Granville Penn ( chairman ) supported by Rev Mr Cook , John Gretton , William Stone , Edward Topham and Huntingford , received information from Vial ( who had been confined to bed with a cold and fever , and had been unable to meet the committee 's delegation ) that he supported the amalgamation of the two plans , and that he would consult his patrons and subscribers accordingly . |
| 28 | Player-manager Roy McDonough , who has been confined to bed with flu for the past couple of days , is happy with the likes of Robert Hopkins , Steve McGavin , Gary Bennett , Paul Abrahams and himself from which to choose as the U's bid to launch a late bid for the end of season play-off phase . |
| 29 | In Essex , the District would have been confined to provision in Colchester , Chelmsford , Clacton , Halstead , Braintree and Maldon . |
| 30 | The effect has been to deny the right of employers to a proper say in the educational process because their interest has been confined to recruitment after the event rather than as participants in provision . |