Example sentences of "be [verb] to one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the cast are assigned to one of two completely different speaker systems depending on the particular qualities of their voice . |
| 2 | Participants are assigned to one of the College 's Faculty Groups . |
| 3 | " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas . |
| 4 | The call had been traced to one of a bank of three public booths in Saffron Walden , a market-town in western Essex , just off the M11 motorway from London to Cambridge . |
| 5 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 6 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 7 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 8 | Numbers are limited to one applicant per token . |
| 9 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 10 | One such example given is Polynesia , and the evidence depends on the fact that in Polynesian kinship terminology , only differences of generation and sex are recognized , so that all males of the generation directly preceding one 's own are referred to by one and the same word , which was glossed by Morgan as ‘ father ’ ; similarly , all females of this same generation are referred to one term , which can be glossed as ‘ mother ’ . |
| 11 | Under the scheme enquiries are referred to one of 700 qualified independent financial advisors who are able to offer local advice . |
| 12 | Thus , utilities and heating are coordinate to one another , as also are wood and slate . |
| 13 | The plot boundaries defining the crofts on which these houses stood also changed , although the early impression of great change and lack of order has now been revised to one of combination and division of consistent units . |
| 14 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 15 | Once a patient is deemed incapable , having been assigned to one of these categories , his powers of self-determination are taken from him . |
| 16 | Darwin used several criteria for distinguishing sexual characteristics selected in this way : ( 1 ) the features acquired by sexual selection are confined to one sex ; ( 2 ) the features develop fully only at sexual maturity ; ( 3 ) the features often appear only during the reproductive season ; and ( 4 ) males are in most species the most active in courtship . |
| 17 | ‘ Once they have decided that they are committed to one man , they seem to want to acknowledge this publicly and to receive public approval in return . |
| 18 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 19 | For example , if a first-generation hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse is crossed back to an albino , the offspring will be in the ratio 1 brown to 1 albino : if two hybrids are mated to one another , the ratio will be 3 brown to 1 albino . |
| 20 | A Medieval campanile has been added to one end of the Mausoleum and a Choir at the other . |
| 21 | An environmental health officer from Liverpool City Council visited the company 's bakery in Lorenzo Drive , West Derby , and found insects could get into the building through ‘ voids ’ around the pipework , and an insect screen had been nudged to one side . |
| 22 | As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 23 | A , b , This classification assumes that the fossil groups are related to one or other of the Recent agnathans ( galeaspids were not known at this time ) . |
| 24 | The events of the novel involve a number of key characters who are related to one another in a variety of ways . |
| 25 | This is a very important page for telling you what is covered by the book and , if it is subdivided , how the topics are related to one another . |
| 26 | You can also use it to see how cells are related to one another and to discover circular references . |
| 27 | The first question of interest is whether the various measures of risk are related to one another , this is initially addressed by calculating correlations between the four measures . |
| 28 | In these situations , the characters are related to one another by a basic set of human relationships : desire , friendship , hatred and rivalry . |
| 29 | All animal organisms are related to one another , closely or remotely , and the study of the complex systems of inter-relationship is called systematics . |
| 30 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |