Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerry , of Sheffield , had been flown to Corfu by the Mirror — in liaison with South Yorkshire police — after a ‘ positive ’ sighting of three-year-old Ben . |
| 2 | The Ukrainian federalist Mykola ( Nikolai ) Kostomarov , who had been banished to Saratov after the exposure of the Kirillo-Methodian Society in 1847 , became a Professor of History at St Petersburg University in 1859 . |
| 3 | The custom of cleaning the close had been explained to Madge on the day she moved in by a small woman carrying a metal pail and a large card . |
| 4 | The tsar expressed his annoyance by a gesture ; he repudiated the free-port status which had been given to Batum by the Treaty of Berlin . |
| 5 | Annie McCafferty was a very reliable person who had been recommended to Carrie by the local midwife . |
| 6 | Bright young engineers from rival firms are attracted to Keyence by the chance to do their own research , rather than labouring for years under grey-haired supervisors . |
| 7 | Once the amazing facts had been revealed to Kirsty during the course of her regression , she only needed to come and see me one more time . |
| 8 | Compared with the European Communities Act 1972 , what additional authority has now been conceded to Brussels from the United Kingdom Parliament ? |
| 9 | Peter Curd , a spokesman for NIREX said this week that ‘ preliminary approaches ’ had been made to ICI about the mine , which is some 300 m deep . |
| 10 | The 112 wooden boxes and 34 tin trunks have now been moved to Lincoln from the attics at Belton House , the former Brownlow seat . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're returning to Northallerton on the first transport available , ’ Cyril said . |
| 12 | Well we understand that they 're going to Paul up the front and of course is still looking for his first goal of the season . |
| 13 | If we 're moving to London in the next three months there 's not much time to get the question of the cottage settled . |
| 14 | Now , you 're talking to Zadak about the AOL . |
| 15 | These prevarications had been conveyed to Joan by the lady Alianor . |
| 16 | A total of some fifty monuments have been attributed to Evesham on the basis of this small group of secure works , although uncertain connoisseurship has left the oeuvre imprecisely defined . |
| 17 | It came from Tony Morrell , the Hartlepool-based athlete who has been preferred to Cram in the 1500 metres and whose fitness had been queried in some quarters . |
| 18 | Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states . |
| 19 | Three jets recently handled include Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN685 from the British Aerospace Apprentice School at Hawarden , which was moved to the Midland Air Museum , Coventry , and a pair of Folland Gnats T.1s , XP511 and XS109 , which were moved from RAF Halton initially into a storage area at Portsmouth , and have since been exported to Seattle in the USA . |
| 20 | The memorandum represented a culmination of protracted negotiations over the status of Koreans , many of whom were descended from those who had been transported to Japan during the Pacific War for the purposes of forced labour . |
| 21 | This was a potentially decisive arm in warfare , and some 50 of them had been transported to France in the greatest secrecy . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I am going to Provence in the summer . |
| 23 | André and I are going to Monaco for the evening . ’ |
| 24 | Eleven members of Stockton Baptist Tabernacle and Norton Baptist Church are going to Virginia in the U.S. for two weeks next month to take part in the 200th anniversary celebrations of William Carey who founded the modern missionary movement . |
| 25 | We are moving to Surrey on the 24th October , so by the time you read this we will actually have moved ! |
| 26 | Itzhak Moda'i , the Finance Minister , and Yuval Ne'eman , Minister of Science and Energy , had been invited to Moscow by the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and Industry , and discussions during their visit centred on economic and scientific co-operation . |
| 27 | Sheffield 513 was saved by a choirman from York Minster , and has been loaned to Blackpool by the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish . |
| 28 | Bush declared that freeing the US$21,000,000 in military aid which had been allocated to Jordan in the current fiscal year was " in the national interest of the United States " and " would be beneficial to the peace process in the Middle East " . |
| 29 | She says the bed bookings fall appears to indicate people are coming to Oxford for the day or perhaps staying with friends or relatives . |
| 30 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |