Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 2 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 3 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 4 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 5 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 6 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 7 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 8 | Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’ |
| 9 | You 're talking to it at this very moment , you 're talking it out , you 're talking it down , and you want my help . |
| 10 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 11 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 12 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 13 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 14 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 15 | But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken . |
| 16 | But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken . ’ |
| 17 | My theories with it , my er great cynical look at it is , they they need a hundred offenders and a hundred non offenders to be referred to them for these tests . |
| 18 | There are fewer generally accepted criteria about what environmental adaptations are necessary or desirable for pupils with problems in seeing and some debate as to whether any special attention needs to be given to them at all . |
| 19 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 20 | A high proportion of diplomats everywhere still began their careers , until well into the second half of the nineteenth century , by serving as unpaid attachés ; and it was not unusual for the head of a mission to ask for a son or a nephew to be assigned to it in this capacity . |
| 21 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 22 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
| 23 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 24 | That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of . |
| 25 | No refund will be made to you of any instalment paid . |
| 26 | No refund will be made to you of any instalment paid . |
| 27 | I 'm writing to you with some good news from Pampers — for your baby , and your baby 's world . |
| 28 | And Robert Urquhart had been shown to be lying to her about more than his affections . |
| 29 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 30 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |