Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a word in their ears and it was left to the hospital to deal with them , ’ said the police spokesman . |
| 2 | GCHQ have analysed the signals and they are designed to completely confuse the whole system controlled from Bacton . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's part of the pattern , Charles ; society disintegrates before our eyes and we are expected to paper over the cracks . ’ |
| 4 | There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently . |
| 5 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 6 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 7 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 8 | We are creating a business which can think on its feet and we are committed to building a company of quality . ’ |
| 9 | He told her that she would not be able to let go of him , that his power was deep , deep in her bones and she was bound to him for ever . |
| 10 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 11 | His furniture was seized by the bailiffs and he was reduced to a demeaning game of hide and seek with process servers which eventually ended when they caught up with him in Belfast . |
| 12 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 13 | At the start of the Malvinas war he is with the Escuadrilla de Ataque based at Punta Indio , flying Aermacclu-339As and he is sent to Puerto Argentina — ’ |
| 14 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 15 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 16 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 17 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 18 | ‘ Bad dream , that 's all , ’ get it now and then , dream there 's this big black bag full of horrible squirming things and it 's tied to my heels . |
| 19 | The cards had nothing on them but apparently meaningless hieroglyphics and they were thrown to the ground to add to the litter that so distresses London Transport . |
| 20 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 21 | The mini and mainframe computer manufacturers were slow to realise the enormous potential of single board microcomputers based on these microprocessors and it was left to the electronics hobbyists and entrepreneurs , who responded by giving birth to the microcomputer industry . |
| 22 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 23 | That Monday , for some reason , my sisters and I were despatched to Fair View Road where Uncle Ernest , Dad 's brother , lived with his second wife , Aunt Ella . |
| 24 | Darwin was not specific as to why males should typically compete more strongly for access to breeding partners than females and it was left to biologists of this century to provide the answer ( Fisher , 1930 ; Bateman , 1948 ; Trivers , 1972 ) . |
| 25 | The mare shied violently , jumping with a sudden jerk to the left with such force that Lucy 's boots slid from the stirrups and she was thrown to the ground . |
| 26 | We are enjoined to transcend our bodily selves and we are enjoined to erm move to the level of intellect through contemplation , that is by pursuing philosophy we will withdraw ourselves from our mere bodily selves and be elevated to the realm of intellect . |
| 27 | Naltrexone is an anti-euphoriant which masks any pleasure from subsequent use of opiate drugs and it is said to be non-addictive . |