Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 2 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 3 | Michael Taylor has been appointed to the board of Northumbrian Water as finance director . |
| 4 | The contract to operate a mobile telephone service in West Germany has been awarded to the Mannesmann-led consortium , which includes Britain 's Cable & Wireless . |
| 5 | The contract to operate a mobile telephone service in West Germany has been awarded to the Mannesmann-led consortium , which includes Britain 's Cable & Wireless . |
| 6 | Eric Amann has been appointed to the new post of deputy manager at the Copthorne Slough-Windsor . |
| 7 | Down in the South-West , Simon Halliday has been elevated to the captaincy in the build-up to the December divisionals . |
| 8 | WALES 'S World Cup qualifying tie against The Netherlands tomorrow , deprived of three main attractions by the suspension of Ian Rush and Mark Hughes and injury to Ruud Gullit , recovered some of its box-office potential yesterday with the news that Marco van Basten had been added to the Dutch squad . |
| 9 | The rubies rumoured to have belonged once to Marie-Antoinette had been dispatched to the diva , who always wore scarlet . |
| 10 | The United States had been introduced to the combined system by Laurent Clerc , a deaf and dumb immigrant and former pupil of the Abbe de l'Epee . |
| 11 | Ferreting has been perfected to the point where it does a thorough job . |
| 12 | Mr Shoon has been appointed to the new South Korean cabinet of the recently-elected president , Kim Young Sam . |
| 13 | Gervase of Canterbury tells us that Edward objected especially to Henry 's renunciation of his rights to Normandy and to the infeudation of Gascony : although Edward had agreed to its terms by 25 July 1259 , he was to change his mind in 1260 and allege that Normandy had been sold to the French . |
| 14 | Bond took over at Turf Moor shortly after Burnley had been relegated to the old Third Division . |
| 15 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 16 | But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others . |
| 17 | Eric Connor has been appointed to the new post of director of resources at Northern Electric 's operational director 's department . |
| 18 | However , following Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's departure from ACE , OSF/1 has been degraded to the status of an unofficial ACE operating system . |
| 19 | Oxford United midfielder Jim Magilton has been recalled to the Northern Ireland squad . |
| 20 | Latvia had been admitted to the International Monetary Fund in May [ see p. 38937 ] . |
| 21 | " That seems satisfactory , then — he can go straight to you after he comes out of hospital , " — Willis had been admitted to the Waterloo , where it was exceedingly difficult to get a bed , once more with the help of the nurses on Bluebird . |
| 22 | Colt had been taken to the hotel where the target was staying … |
| 23 | Marshall had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 after a successful career as a civil rights lawyer , legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and an Appeals Court judge . |
| 24 | Over the last decade new recruits to the game in America and Canada have been drawn to the international code and following the merger most tournaments will be played to its rules . |
| 25 | By virtue of the resurrection Jesus has been raised to the right hand of God , as messianic head of the Israel of God . |
| 26 | Mr Nichol has been seconded to the region for a special project , studying the effects of community care throughout the country . |
| 27 | BECAUSE there is no ground available in the Bolton area , tomorrow 's Alder Cup under-14 tie between Bolton and Liverpool has been switched to the MYA Ground , Long Lane , Liverpool ( 10.30am ) . |
| 28 | Ali had been listening to the discussion . |
| 29 | On May 28 the SNM announced that Ahmed Ali had been elected to the presidency of the new republic , and that a civil service , judiciary , central bank governor and relief co-ordinator would be appointed . |
| 30 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |