Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an experimental study of a case management service for homeless mentally ill people only two out of 94 people referred in a year reported having been admitted to hospital for a year or longer . |
| 2 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 3 | WE can see from the definition of a tackle that : ‘ If the ball carrier is on one knee , or both knees , or is sitting on the ground or is on top of another player who is on the ground , the ball carrier is deemed to have been brought to ground ’ . |
| 4 | He says all the studies show sunburning is linked to cancer . |
| 5 | He went on , ‘ You were actually on your way to this place — which almost amounts to insult being added to injury . ’ |
| 6 | A BABY is thought to have been scalded to death in the bath when his brother turned on the hot tap . |
| 7 | Membership of PWI is reportedly a condition of taking a WABI licence — all licencees are understood to have been sworn to secrecy under the direst of threats for disclosure . |
| 8 | Membership of the Public Windows Initiative is said to be a condition of taking a WABI licence — all licensees are understood to have been sworn to secrecy under the direst of imprecations . |
| 9 | So this is an example of both scaremongering having been laid to rest and also modern scientific technology having produced safer medicines . |
| 10 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 11 | Whilst there has been some confusion as to exactly what ‘ remoteness ’ consists of ( it seems to have been equated to distance from London whereas it would seem to be psychological remoteness in the sense of inaccessibility of decision-makers which really matters ) , the lesson nevertheless seems clear . |
| 12 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 13 | high % of blame seems to have been related to boy 's age . |
| 14 | Much of his career in fact seems to have been devoted to Amazon-slaying , but it is significant that if heroes like Heracles represent the revolt of the son against the phallic mother then they also give evidence of their dependency on her when we find our hero forced to don women 's garb and do women 's work as proof of his love for the Lydian queen Omphale , while she wears his lion 's skin , brandishes his club and spanks him with her slipper if his handiwork does not please her . |
| 15 | All are believed to have been sentenced to death for criminal offences but a warrant had not been signed for their executions and some were still appealing against their conviction . |
| 16 | When , in the mid-Eighties , Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons stated that ‘ red is the new black ’ ( narrowly beating Diana Vreelands ' ‘ pink is the navy blue of India ’ observation in the Pretentious Fashion Statement stakes ) , it appeared to have been taken to heart by the designers of football kits . |
| 17 | The above effects are likely to be important only at or below the glass transition temperature but they do not seem to have been analysed to date , nor is there yet a molecular interpretation of the frictional forces between chains arising from these and other causes . |