Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The C.-in-C. of the CIS Armed Forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , who met US Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow on Jan. 29 , said in London on Jan. 30 that tactical nuclear weapons located in all former Soviet republics , except Ukraine and Byelarus , would be withdrawn to Russia by July . |
| 2 | The court held that no offence was committed in that case , since the person at whom the conduct was directed was an undercover policeman who was unlikely to be provoked to violence , and no offence would be committed under the Act either , for the same reasons . |
| 3 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 4 | Having recently been involved in the revision of about 20 standards dealing with the analysis of iron , steel and ferro-alloys for the British Standards Institution ( BSI ) , I have just learned that in all these documents the spelling of sulphur is to be altered to sulfur , for the element and in the names of all its derivatives . |
| 5 | This was that a proportion of the pool funding for General Medical Services would be redirected to practices in high demand , deprived areas . |
| 6 | The girl was to be guarded until she delivered , at which time she was to be stoned to death . |
| 7 | Such blasphemers by the Mosaic law were to be stoned to death and for his part he could freely consent to it . |
| 8 | In some countries in the world you would be stoned to death . |
| 9 | But how , after the Foxley Wood decision , is the pressure going to be eased to London 's south-west , along and around the M4 and M3 motorways ? |
| 10 | The whys and wherefores of these procedures need to be explained to students , otherwise they might conclude that proper parking is not really important and that it is alright to leave a glider with either wing down . |
| 11 | The situation needs to be explained to parents in terms of : |
| 12 | Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty . |
| 13 | To move quickly into the management of new policies in a school carries the advantage that an innovation can be explained to others , defended or modified by the decision only of the initiator himself . |
| 14 | What does not need to be explained to Vogts , however , is the determination possessed by Scottish players . |
| 15 | In short , the origin of ‘ civilisation ’ might well be traced to man 's dawning understanding that the ‘ joie de vivre ’ experienced in childhood was being lost to the individual as his life went on . |
| 16 | In a heady essay written over thirty years ago , Giorgio de Santillana argued that some of the key ideas of the Scientific Renaissance were to be traced to developments in the arts . |
| 17 | Library workbooks are particularly popular in academic libraries in the US and their widespread use can be traced to developments of Miriam Dudley 's workbooks used at the undergraduate library at the University of California at Los Angeles . |
| 18 | The fact that such an ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ is not unrelated to other , much more obviously parricidal ones , and that all of these insurrections against cultural restraint can be traced to childhood failures in the acquisition of the superego is nicely illustrated by an Italian terrorist who , having put his revolutionary ideology into practice by murdering seventeen people and kidnapping an American general , justified his activities at his trial by proudly explaining that ‘ My challenge began from the school benches of Centocelle [ his home town ] . |
| 19 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 20 | It can possibly be traced to Taps in 1981 . |
| 21 | Indeed , the dilemmas for professionals in their ‘ multi-professional approach ’ could be traced to paradoxes within their different understandings of the meaning of ‘ disability ’ . |
| 22 | Personally , I think that the trouble in Manchester could be traced to inadequacies regarding the stewarding arrangements . |
| 23 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 24 | England 's failure may be traced to irresolution at the society 's centre , the Queen herself . |
| 25 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 26 | It was just as likely , therefore , that any revelation to Anna — by word or expression — might be relayed to Sam and , perhaps unintentionally , onward to Luke . |
| 27 | Then it can be relayed to listeners . ’ |
| 28 | Colour pictures monitored in a control room enable instructions to be relayed to police on the spot ( ibid.:68–9 ) . |
| 29 | Lucy felt that the message should be relayed to Silas at once , so she went in search of him . |
| 30 | All other claims abroad involving correspondence must be referred to H.O.Claims . |