Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] another " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , if two persons enter into an arrangement for the sale of any particular property , and try to settle the terms , but can not agree , and after dispute and discussion respecting the price , they say , " We will refer this question of price to AB , he shall settle it " , and thereupon they agree that the matter shall be referred to his arbitration , that would appear to be an " arbitration " , in the proper sense of the term … ; but if they agree to a price to be fixed by another , that does not appear to me to be an arbitration . |
| 2 | The row culminated in the headteacher , Jim Nind , asking to be transferred to another post and four of the seven teachers , apparently exhausted by the events , going on sick leave for a week . |
| 3 | This associative procedure is achieved by first stating the model to be attached and then indicating which of its nodes have to be positioned upon another specified node ( on another model ) . |
| 4 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 5 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 6 | The trial is expected to be heard before another jury in the near future . |
| 7 | They know the way that the wind is blowing , and would be only too pleased to be redeployed into another trade . |
| 8 | One spokesman initially described the plants as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ , only to be contradicted by another — IBM Europe has made noises about a 12-month period in which the plants have to prove profitability , while others deny that there is any particular timescale . |
| 9 | The rats had to be kept in another part of the building . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Or maybe you 'd prefer to be invigorated by another stalemate argument with me on the subject . ’ |
| 11 | In the preceding year 28 December fell on a Sunday and as the coronation took place on that day of the week it had to be repeated on another day ! |
| 12 | The defendant , it seems to their Lordships , would in those circumstances have to be rearraigned before another court and if he again pleaded not guilty would have to be retried . |
| 13 | Their stated wish was for him to be moved to another mainstream school . |
| 14 | " You could ask to be moved to another convent . " |
| 15 | The family contacted the villa 's owner who took the gun away , but the family , worried at what they else they may find , demanded to be moved to another villa |
| 16 | Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition . |
| 17 | Canon Atkinson regarded the word as indisputedly Old Danish , and the idea that ‘ horn ’ was something to be blown as another absurdity ; ‘ horn ’ meant horned stock and ‘ garth ’ meant fence , so we have ‘ horned-stock fence ’ — but for keeping animals out rather than in . |
| 18 | The Charge Code to be assigned to another LIFESPAN user . |
| 19 | Thus the system of exogamy prevailed , according to which a bride had to be obtained from another clan , ‘ bride-price ’ and dowry being given according to an agreement between the parents . |
| 20 | ‘ People who have skills in one authority are likely to be accepted in another unless they have higher standards of training and qualifications , but it is too early to see any pattern , ’ he says . |
| 21 | English speaking students may wish to be assessed in another European language as an aid to employment in the European labour market . |
| 22 | This facility enables students from other European countries to take SCOTVEC modules in their own language and English-speaking students have the opportunity to be assessed in another European language as an aid to employment in the European labour market . |
| 23 | You can link them to show that one task has to be completed before another can be started , and rearranging tasks if you make a mistake is no problem — you simply drag them to where you want them . |
| 24 | For once she took notice and Wyatt faded from the scene … only to be replaced by another . |
| 25 | However , one set of simplicities is dismissed only to be replaced by another . |
| 26 | The bolt you tighten on the factory floor vanishes to be replaced by another : but the clean kitchen floor is tomorrow 's dirty floor and the clean floor of the day after that . |
| 27 | Because of the peculiar restricted hours that banks open I am unable to visit the branch where the account is held and any over-the-counter transactions — usually only 2 per year — have to be made at another branch . |
| 28 | If the licence does not provide for extra vehicles application for variation of the O licence has to be made on another form ( GV 81 ) . |
| 29 | IN Chapter 4 we described the transition into marriage , that process of disengagement from family , friends and the single state of mind that is necessary to enable a lifelong commitment to be made to another person . |
| 30 | Here there was no need for closure to hover behind the death-rate , or for one mental hospital to be engorged for another to shut . |