Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] as to " in BNC.

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1 I am baffled as to why ‘ New Britons ’ — particularly those ‘ too young to be yet imbued with the wisdom that comes with age ’ should be singled out .
2 The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system .
3 Usually I was challenged as to why I was not reading law , which was always quoted as the ‘ proper ’ subject for a police officer .
4 I was bamboozled as to the town 's attraction , and I still am .
5 People who were questioned as to why they listened to him during the war very often said they found him ‘ good for a laugh ’ .
6 So , it was argued , she was mistaken as to the essential character of the document she signed and of the transaction which it effected .
7 However he went on to find that Miss T. was lulled into a sense of false security by hospital staff and that she was misinformed as to the availability and effectiveness of alternative procedures .
8 Can we be informed as to what action will be taken to prevent a repetition ?
9 When in the nineteenth century naturalists first examined it , they were mystified as to how any animal could feed on it .
10 Carol and Ron encouraged the duo — even if they were baffled as to where their talent had come from .
11 limitation point er it was held at one of general or continuing duty obtain an independent firm of solicitors to the option on every occasion on which they were consulted as to a possible exercise on such occasions whether in fact be issued it goes on .
12 Rather , the Commission looked in the direction of devolution of power of some sort ( though the members of it were divided as to what sort ) .
13 Nothing is prescribed as to those entitled to initiate this process ; this is left to the law of the state of origin .
14 Nothing is known as to what has happened in Switzerland , but it does appear that in the United States , after a long course of litigation , the attempts have failed .
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