Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the King indeed , Ken was one of the least unacceptable of the Anglican bishops , and he continued to be invited to preach at court — not , indeed , in the presence of the Roman Catholic king , but in that of his daughter Princess Anne . |
| 2 | For many viewers to be invited to stare at a naked child is too complex and disturbing . |
| 3 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 4 | They refused to examine particular complaints or cases , did not examine branch files and did not interview rank-and-file officers ; in other words , they did none of the things that would have had to be done to get at the truth . |
| 5 | To be asked to deputise at the age of 22 for soloists as prestigious as Zimerman and Argerich is in itself evidence of Goerner 's rapidly growing reputation in pianistic circles . |
| 6 | ‘ I was delighted to be asked to speak at the opening of this exhibition to mark the Centenary of the Diocesan Vestment Guild . |
| 7 | That is the signal to get the diary ready because you are going to be asked to speak at a dinner . |
| 8 | In Cambridge , Mr Rushdie said it was an honour to be asked to speak at the college , where he was a student in the 1960s . |
| 9 | Cabinet was to be asked to look at the probable growth in the economy , and the amount of tax revenue it wished to generate , and then decide what in total it could afford to spend . |
| 10 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 11 | Following on this discussion , the shop decided that it needed to have a policy on career development and it was suggested that ACTS and Staff Council should produce a joint paper. ; A group is to be formed to look at the paper with Sarah Hughes , Bridget Middleton and Peter West in consultation with colleagues ; they will consult with Staff Council concerning a joint paper . |
| 12 | Herculaneum suffered equally badly , except that there underground shafts and tunnels had to be driven to get at the antiquities . |
| 13 | The Rev. Thomas Tolming said that the Relieving Officer refused aid to deserving poor families who had children , considering that they ought to be put to work at the mine . |
| 14 | The rain passed and we took off , only to be forced to land at the military airbase at Butterworth . |
| 15 | Officials of the inquiry and MPs immediately called for the extradition of Klebeck to be considered and for the inquiry to be reconstituted to look at wartime crimes in the Channel Islands . |
| 16 | Accordingly , he suggested separate facilities at each exchange for dealing with juveniles ; notices with information about the exchanges were to be displayed in schools ; lists of prospective school-leavers to be sent to the local exchange with details of their ‘ ability , tastes and desires ’ ; and each school-leaver to be told to call at the exchange for an interview . |