Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun pl] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the liquids are said to be partially miscible . |
| 2 | In every such case the parties are referred to as " plaintiff " and " defendant " . |
| 3 | With a fight the frames were changed to white and yellow which reflects the heat rather than absorb it . |
| 4 | In due course the conspirators were taken to Edinburgh , subjected to protracted torture , and finally beheaded . |
| 5 | In the region permeated by the magnetic field the charges are subjected to radial forces and as a consequence eddy currents will flow . |
| 6 | The level of work the children are introduced to is also being assessed . |
| 7 | In addition to the other help the Saudis were providing to Iraq in different forms , including loans of oil , they allowed Iraq to construct a 500,000 b/d spur line to link up with Petroline and thence the Red Sea . |
| 8 | After lunch the delegates were treated to a talk from Irene Thomas , who is a regular panelist on Radio Four 's Round Britain Quiz . |
| 9 | In the pub cellar the kegs are connected to gas cylinders and the gas pushes the chilled beer to the bar . |
| 10 | In conclusion the payments were held to be capital . |
| 11 | When Joseph Parker paid his first visit to America in 1873 it was for an Alliance conference : on that occasion the delegates were presented to General Grant , the President . |
| 12 | But since on this occasion the words were dictated to the child it is more likely to be the child 's efforts to repeat the sound to herself and to write down her idea of a phonic equivalent . |
| 13 | Journalist Victor Guzev , who travels with CSKA , said : ‘ In our society the players are considered to be wealthy and able to afford most things in life . |
| 14 | For reasons of space the diaries are limited to those of the school secretary , school social worker , head of primary department , supply class teacher ( juniors ) and welfare assistant ( infants ) . |
| 15 | Despite presiding over large-scale unemployment the Conservatives were returned to office by huge majorities . |
| 16 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 17 | The Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction clause was not binding on B. The way the documents were presented to him for signature was misleading : B was entitled to assume that the two copies of the terms were identical . |
| 18 | Earlier in the year the awards were given to the winners of the Swan Stabilo/Arguati Disappearing Britain competition . |
| 19 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 20 | The film is not primarily a combat movie : no attempt is made to fully identify the kind of unit the protagonists are attached to , nor is there any attempt to locate the central act in time or place . |
| 21 | As a final step the agreements were adjusted to local conditions via negotiations between managements and the workplace union organisations . |
| 22 | It is not clear to what extent the planets were exposed to a common population during this late bombardment . |
| 23 | It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer . |
| 24 | At the same time the fees were raised to £4 a year to pay for this , and Book-keeping as a subject was dropped . |
| 25 | The most crucial factor to have emerged from the recent research into language learning is not what language the learners are exposed to but what the learner does with the language . |