Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [vb pp] [adv] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 2 | Indeed , many of the indigenous plants and remedies , such as quinine , which were brought back to Europe by the conquistadores , contributed to the fundamental changes taking place in European medicine at the time . |
| 3 | Without being told , he knew that as fast as the payments were made into five Swiss bank accounts , the money was transferred into five different accounts — the numbers of which were known only to Adam . |
| 4 | By the early decades of this century English was being called upon to sustain a " national ideal " — an ideal which was traced back to Matthew Arnold . |
| 5 | A staggering quantity of it related to the Daleks , most of which was farmed out to Terry Nation or Raymond Cusick , but the four main characters got their share as well . |
| 6 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 7 | They 've collected some of the six thousand signatures on a petition which was handed in to Downing Street . |