Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun sg] in " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In this case , however , a clue has been given to declarer in the earlier bidding . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In Essex , the District would have been confined to provision in Colchester , Chelmsford , Clacton , Halstead , Braintree and Maldon . |
| 9 | If you are returning to work in your thirties or later , it is very likely that your boss could be younger than you . |
| 10 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 11 | He said South Africa 's security forces were unable to deal with the violence , adding : ‘ We are calling for the formation of an internal peace force … the only qualification should be that the peace force be composed of people who are committed to democracy in this country . ’ |
| 12 | An alternative — and theoretically the more sound approach — is a ‘ demand-led ’ strategy in which general managers are committed to investment in development because they can see its importance . |
| 13 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 14 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 15 | In a ‘ desperate struggle in a drunken crowd ’ a police officer had been stabbed to death in Wilmer Gardens , Hoxton , said to be ‘ a low neighbourhood infested by a very dangerous class ’ . |
| 16 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 17 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 18 | Dec. 14 Three Israelis are stabbed to death in Jaffa by Hamas guerrillas [ ibid . ] . |
| 19 | Many references have been made to phonology in this course , with the purpose of making use of the concepts and analytical techniques of that subject to help explain various facts about English pronunciation as efficiently as possible . |
| 20 | If no data has actually been written to disk in the meantime , further speed increases are gained . |
| 21 | No a f a fossil is something that 's been turned to stone in the ground . |
| 22 | Michael Sams has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering the teenager , Julie Dart . |
| 23 | Having been sentenced to death in the mid-Morrissey period for the hanging offence of reinventing laddishness ( see The Farm , Flowered Up ) , they bowl on stage like men released from the Tower . |
| 24 | Azhar had been sentenced to death in 1982 for his part in the 1981 hijacking by IIRC guerrillas of a domestic airliner to Thailand [ see pp. 32256-57 ] . |
| 25 | Although Jiang had been sentenced to death in 1981 for " counter-revolutionary crimes " [ see pp. 30833-36 ] , her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983 [ see p. 32505 ] . |
| 26 | He had been sentenced to death in March by a Palestinian military tribunal sitting in Sana'a , Yemen . |
| 27 | Having been sentenced to death in the mid-Morrissey period for the hanging offence of reinventing laddishness ( see The Farm , Flowered Up ) , they bowl on stage like men released from the Tower . |
| 28 | If you 're committed to trial in this court you will be committed to Preston . |
| 29 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 30 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |