Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 3 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 4 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 5 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 6 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 7 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 8 | Everything has always been referred back to mother . |
| 9 | Near to the time of operation specific measures are carried out to safeguard patients . |
| 10 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 11 | Roadside checks have been carried out to try to discover the identity of a baby found dead in a ditch . |
| 12 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 13 | Research in the USA , however , has shown that the HIV virus can survive , in insufficiently treated sewage which has been pumped out to sea , for up to 12 hours . |
| 14 | Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden . |
| 15 | This is because the length of the production cycle and the rhythm of the work in agriculture continue to be governed by the seasons of the year except in those branches of the industry which have been turned over to factory farming methods . |
| 16 | Like so many others , by this time Millend had left the cloth trade and , in this case , been turned over to corn and saw milling . |
| 17 | Nearly all of that has been turned over to animal feed . |
| 18 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 19 | We 're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day . |
| 20 | They 're farmed out to East Peckham or Chertsey for five years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 're invited out to dinner tomorrow evening , ’ said Alexandra . |
| 22 | Chemicals that in the Common Market are not allowed to travel by road , they 're forced on to rail . |
| 23 | It 's different if the wind 's offshore because then it can be deceptively close into the shore and further out bigger waves and if you get into trouble you 're lost out to sea . |
| 24 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 25 | Based on a series of works by Picasso collectively known as the Antipolis cycle , made in 1946 to 1947 , the images have been engraved on to metal plates by Claude Rodrigues and printed uninked ( a technique known as gaufrage ) . |
| 26 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |
| 27 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 28 | Returns are kept in the Public Record Office at Chancery Lane , London , under the classification E179 , but an enquirer should first check the availability of those which have been printed on a county basis or have been copied on to microfilm . |
| 29 | This occurs when markets , previously served by the public sector monopolies and governed by regulations , are opened up to competition from the private sector . |
| 30 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |