Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 2 | In his teens , with his father 's health deteriorating , Richard was taken to Hollywood to be his ‘ personal assistant ’ . |
| 3 | The god of fertility , wine and drunkenness in Greek mythology , Dionysius was known as Bacchus to the Romans . |
| 4 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 5 | No less a masterwork though , as the military complexes of America and Russia are reduced by circumstances to mere personal bickering while the countdown to global destruction ( and a life of harem-shagging in coal mines for the ‘ lucky ’ survivors ) ticks relentlessly away . |
| 6 | England were hampered by injuries to the Hightown pair , goalkeeper Carolyn Reid and striker Tina Cullen , which prevented both from playing . |
| 7 | For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers . |
| 8 | The town of Ischia Ponte is linked by causeway to the 15th century Aragona Castle . |
| 9 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 10 | This considered in accordance with AFHQ FX 75383 dated 14 [ Robertson 's order of 14 May -this confirms that Low 's order of 17 May was issued in response to the Robertson order ] . |
| 11 | The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898 , and has , since 1952 , been a state in " free association " with the USA . |
| 12 | At twelve Jane was taken to England to be educated and encountered her indelible railway wagon . |
| 13 | The nickel exploration programme in north-east Scotland was initiated following references to the nickel content of a particular soil type developed over ultrabasic rocks in the Belhelvie area ( Glentworth and Muir , 1963 ) . |
| 14 | The Republic of Cuba was ceded by Spain to the United States following the Spanish-American war of 1898 . |
| 15 | A girl he had come to admire in Sumatra was brought to Java to be his third wife after he divorced Inggit . |
| 16 | In the same year Bavaria and Wurttemberg concluded a customs agreement and a Central German Customs Union was formed in response , rather as EFTA was formed in response to the EEC . |
| 17 | Mr Devaty was sentenced in August to 20 months in jail on charges of incitement connected with the petition . |
| 18 | Wright and Richmond were recommended by Collinson to Bartram as being the most reliable , and were sometimes asked to convey zoological cargo ; live squirrels , red-birds and terrapins for Lord Petre or insects mounted in a cork-lined box for Dr Fothergill . |
| 19 | A fourteenth-century stained glass panel of the Annunciation originally from Altenberg is estimated at £40,000 to 60,000 ( $61,200–92,000 ) . |
| 20 | We took the route through Cheapside because the Thames was frozen from bank to bank , past the mansions of the rich , the stalls full of fripperies , the mouldering Eleanor Cross and the great Conduit which was supposed to bring fresh water into the city . |
| 21 | The assistant manager of the Holmes Cash and Carry on Boucher Crescent was taken by robbers to the warehouse in his Hyundai Pony car while his wife and child were kept hostage at home . |
| 22 | The Witham was frozen from bank to bank from Lincoln to Boston . |
| 23 | At the same time Mavis Muyunda was moved from Health to the Ministry of Water , Lands and Natural Resources and was replaced by her deputy , Jeremiah Chijikwa . |
| 24 | Wilson was remanded in custody to Belfast Magistrate 's Court on September 17 . |
| 25 | Philosophy and later social-science structuralism à la Lévi-Strauss are seen by Bourdieu to be , in their ‘ objectivism ’ , somehow au dessus de la mêlée . |
| 26 | Like the captured enemy patrol , Grant and Larsen were dressed from head to foot in dark clothing , only in their case it was less military in style . |
| 27 | The Yaruba is sent from Texas to San Fernando with a supply of drinking water for the port , devastated by earthquake . |
| 28 | Sole practitioner John Patrick O'Donnell was committed for trial to Southwark Crown Court at a hearing at Horseferry Magistrates Court last month . |
| 29 | My interest in China was increased from time to time by my acquaintance with a Cantonese who operated a shoe repair shop on the High Street . |
| 30 | The summit 's concluding Declaration of Guadalajara was considered by analysts to be more of an historical document than a blueprint for combined action . |