Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] to [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polyethylene terephthalate is , it could be argued , the ideal bottle-making material — immensely strong , very light in weight , with glass-like clarity and excellent gas barrier properties , pure and inert , capable of being produced to any desired shape and in any colour . |
| 2 | They 're also tied by a covenant which prohibits the stadium from being put to any other use . |
| 3 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 4 | Later an affadavit was presented to the High Court in London supporting an application by the foundation for injunctions freezing all Aberdour 's assets to be extended to any overseas holdings . |
| 5 | This has to be applied to most archaeological deposits . |
| 6 | Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone made Willie Ormond 's period as Scotland manager into a nightmare of infuriating incidents and in the '60s , the city of Turin was to be treated to some memorable scandals when Denis Law and Joe Baker both signed for the Italian League side Torino . |
| 7 | I am deeply honoured to be invited to this momentous and lavish occasion by my esteemed friends , Martha and George . |
| 8 | Their stated wish was for him to be moved to another mainstream school . |
| 9 | I find it to be an irritating reminder that the solid rail service taken for granted by this part of the country , the one that provides an essential lifeline spring , summer , autumn and winter , is eventually going to be lost to these seasonal theme-park trucks full of florid , truffle-guzzling lounge lizards . |
| 10 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |
| 11 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 12 | Wealthy ladies , doing a little charitable slumming , as well as a few shopkeepers ' wives , bought the pretty baby clothes , and the doll she had dressed went for a fabulous price , to be given to some little girl more fortunate than those for whom the money was being raised . |
| 13 | It is convenient to refer at this point to section 83 of the Act , which makes provision for an indemnity to be given to those suffering loss by reason of the rectification of the register and , in certain circumstances , to those suffering loss where rectification is refused . |
| 14 | The Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 ( ‘ the Executive Scheme ’ ) provides for share options to be granted to those senior employees who are most in a position to affect the fortunes of the Company . |
| 15 | He was involved in the successful campaign to get Skoal Bandits removed from sale in the UK and in preparing information to be sent to all prospective Parliamentary candidates in Scotland , as well as working on many other projects . |
| 16 | Gradually , in the novel , the friends of the Morgans grew up and ‘ acquired preferences which were not easily to be adapted to that sunny , untidy house … |
| 17 | Some of these remain , but most of the Central Government grant to local authorities is now in the form of the rate support grant and a grant known as a block grant , which involves the Secretary of State deciding the total sum to be paid to all local authorities ( after consultation with the local authority associations , and approval of the House of Commons ) and its apportionment . |
| 18 | Of course he was too old to be married to that young girl . |
| 19 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |
| 20 | A systematic approach to customer record-keeping is to be recommended to all repeat-call salespeople . |
| 21 | ‘ The whole cultural situation in Oxford is such that you have to have a certain degree of power or influence of money to be admitted to any social sphere , ’ he fumes . |
| 22 | Romanians would be given the chance to take up an ownership stake in a POF — a kind of embryonic mutual fund — by registering the privatization vouchers which were to be issued to all eligible citizens . |
| 23 | WFS did not publically declare itself to be affiliated to any independent grass roots campaigns who are actually working on the ground with ordinary people — for example , the Tottenham 3 Campaign , Birmingham 6 Campaign etc . |
| 24 | The Russian minister sent to Constantinople in 1724 was ordered to choose four students to be attached to his staff to learn the language ; while the establishment of 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which provided for two students to be attached to each Russian mission abroad , allowed that in the Turkish capital to have as many as eight . |
| 25 | Moreover , in order to establish the significance to be attached to any particular statement , it is necessary both to consider and to understand the context in which it was made . |
| 26 | Joyfully and thankfully reconciled with me , and having proved himself in a very arduous campaign , he might well have rested on his laurels in comfort and safety , waiting for the war to end or to be drafted to some new theatre of operations . |
| 27 | However , it is common ( especially on computers with short word-lengths ) for a pair of consecutive store locations to be allocated to each floating-point value , to allow increased Precision . |
| 28 | In this context , it means that the appropriate central planner must decree what total resources on a national or a local scale are to be made available , how much is to be allocated to each special service , and where units offering these services should be established , so as to maximize their effectiveness . |
| 29 | The positivist commitment to the achievement of empirical goals such as causally relevant variables and effective penal treatments ( rather than such nebulous things as ‘ justice ’ and ‘ desert ’ ) required it to be subjected to such empirical assessment . |
| 30 | One thesis I am arguing for claims that authoritative reasons are pre-emptive : the fact that an authority requires performance of an action is a reason for its performance which is not to be added to all other relevant reasons when assessing what to do , but should exclude and take the place of some of them . |