Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been obscured by its weakness in the South-east , where leaders such as Ken Livingstone were reduced to trying cobble together the rainbow coalition . |
| 2 | At one stage the waters of Oulton Broad were reported to be rising at a rate of eight inches an hour . |
| 3 | And second prizes of Nintendo games were awarded to Andrew of Lindford and Sarah-Jane from Bordon . |
| 4 | Similar periodicities of proline residues are evident when the largest basic domain within the amino terminal region of CHO nucleolin is compared to Xenopus histone H1A ( Fig. 3B ) . |
| 5 | In the ensuing proceedings custody of Miss T. was granted to her mother , which is not altogether surprising as she was still very young and was a girl . |
| 6 | The repair of Whitley bombers was allocated to Wolverton Works in January 1941 , and to accommodate these repairs , two bays in the Road Vehicle Shop and part of the Hair Carding Shop were used . |
| 7 | But what I do say is I am a trustee I am a trustee not of farmer 's land not of your land Mr , not of your land Mr not of your land Mr every person in Leicestershire owns that land , they have got a mark and I 'll tell you sir four thousand five hundred signatures made in one weekend are saying to us you are a trustee of our land , it 's not your land , our land I keep hearing , it 's our land it 's not our land it 's the people of Leicestershire 's land and what the people of Leicestershire land are saying to us sir , they 're saying to us you can not continue this barbaric killing of foxes . |
| 8 | Commander Tom Laidlaw of Scotland Yard is attached to Judge Richard Goldstone 's commission investigating political violence , and three officers are attached to the new European Task Force in South Africa and the commonwealth team . |
| 9 | The key role of PNP coordinator was applied to a variety of tasks , of which staff development , curriculum development and special needs were pre-eminent over the evaluation period as a whole . |
| 10 | Their affair could be described either as ‘ passionately discreet ’ or as ‘ discreetly passionate ’ , the relative anonymity of Wenlock Manor being preferred to the sodium-lit splendour of the Grand Hotel . |
| 11 | Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 . |
| 12 | After primary dispersal by a range of vertebrates in a dry-seasonal forest in Costa Rica , the fruits of F. hondurensis are known to be re-arranged by several ant species . |
| 13 | But the path of political progress has become deadlocked following the breaking off of reform talks with de Klerk in June after the attack on the Boipatong township in which dozens of ANC supporters were hacked to death . |
| 14 | The sixty seven year old chairman of Thames water is said to be depressed after he was diagnosed as having Parkinsons disease . |
| 15 | At the meeting which adopted the constitution , Ken Banks of AUEW TASS was added to the executive committee ; he was close to the CPNI , although not actually a member . |
| 16 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 17 | Main users of AlphaWindows terminals are expected to be the mid-ranking clerical and administration staff of organisations who have several tasks they need to perform using different applications . |
| 18 | Just recently the case of Malcolm MacKinnon was brought to my attention after you published his story . |
| 19 | It was also paralleled abroad , where a French production of Queen Elizabeth was imported to the US by Adolph Zukor . |
| 20 | ON THIS DAY : In 1843 , the 17ft statue of Lord Nelson was hauled to the top of the column in London 's Trafalgar Square . |
| 21 | Previous popes had been in France , and the teaching of the school of St Victor in Paris and of Peter Abelard was known to them , but Innocent III may have been the first pope to have studied at the Paris schools . |
| 22 | Men of the standing of Peter Elliott were relegated to B races — it was that kind of night . |
| 23 | Sherif ( 1977 ) describes how the status hierarchy of US psychology is related to experimental rigour , and how women are excluded from this hierarchy . |
| 24 | A number of US citizens were airlifted to Abidjan ( Côte d'Ivoire ) in mid-June when a first round of peace talks proved unsuccessful [ see below ] . |
| 25 | THE children of Headley Playgroup were treated to a fancy dress Easter party on Friday of last week . |
| 26 | Anthony Emm of York Street is reckoned to be the doyen . |
| 27 | On 6 November what was left of HMS Impregnable was sold to a merchant in Portsmouth . |
| 28 | He laughed , a quotation of Ch'eng Yi 's coming to mind . |
| 29 | The war memorial tablet on the wall of Brigstock Villa was removed to a place of safe keeping before tram operation from Thornton Heath ceased , but as soon as the depôt was cleared of cars , demolition contractors moved in . |
| 30 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |