Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 2 | But er this is how they they wanted the work done and it was n't a question of one man had to learn the lot you just had to do work away where you were sent to work . |
| 3 | Erm or they 're related to attendance at meetings you know er no |
| 4 | You get the feeling that nothing is left to chance . |
| 5 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 6 | After the fourth week I saw , however , that we were doomed to failure because the supply of strike breakers was inexhaustible . |
| 7 | ‘ I also remember that some of us were individually handed pigeons that we were meant to cradle in our hands and then throw into the air in the centre-circle . |
| 8 | The aim was ‘ to make sure that all their employees are well-versed with the terms of the Race Relations Act , 1976 , and also that they are committed to multi-culturism , anti-racism and the provision of equal opportunities for all . ’ |
| 9 | The aim was ‘ to make sure that all their employees are well-versed with the terms of the Race Relations Act , 1976 , and also that they are committed to multi-culturism , anti-racism and the provision of equal opportunities for all . ’ |
| 10 | So an insistence on the importance of principle in no way denies the value of experience or customary practices but simply requires that they are subjected to evaluation , and not just taken on trust . |
| 11 | The subjects with influenza B were not so ill that they were confined to bed , so influenza could possibly endanger people 's safety at work . |
| 12 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 13 | ‘ Kids kept insisting on actually meeting ‘ The Raisins ’ , so they were brought to life for celebrity appearances in New York 's Thanksgiving Day Parade — and even for the presidential inauguration , ’ said Ms Wood . |
| 14 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 15 | The design process must be managed so that it is completed to quality within cost and time targets and with all necessary decisions having been taken and expressed fully and clearly in specifications and drawings . |
| 16 | The third problem with the existing legislation is that it is confined to gold and silver only , giving archaeologists no control over accompanying objects in other materials which are often of equal archaeological importance . |
| 17 | ‘ We do nothing , except make sure that it is drawn to friend Cawthorne 's attention . ’ |
| 18 | I believe that it was attached to leather or wood ; perhaps a harness decoration or cabinet . |
| 19 | He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred . |
| 20 | In a separate development on Jan. 27 , nearly 1,000 students attempted to storm the villa where Ershad was being detained , demanding that he be transferred to prison within 24 hours . |
| 21 | It is also vital that any incident or accident involving the emergency services ( police , fire or ambulance ) is notified to Peter Bateman at Felcourt as soon as possible so that he is briefed to dal with consequent media enquiries . |
| 22 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 23 | The authorities have not responded to widespread allegations that he was beaten to death . |
| 24 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 25 | ‘ She discovered a problem with a blood test and I was admitted to hospital . ’ |
| 26 | Mum just wrapped her up , rang the ambulance , and I was taken to hospital . |
| 27 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 28 | If I am seconded to industry ( or " host " an industrialist ) how can I disseminate what I have learned to colleagues and students ? |
| 29 | I was perfectly happy until I was sent to school at the age of five . |
| 30 | The rate of vibration of the vocal cords — something which is physically measurable , and which is related to activity on the part of the speaker — is the fundamental frequency of voiced sounds , and should not be called ‘ pitch ’ . |