Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Inevitably , the care staff helping them are supervised to a much lesser degree than they would be in a residential establishment . ’ |
| 2 | Kicking and struggling I was forced to the floor and lay there , face down , while three boys sat on top of me and others pulled my shoes off . |
| 3 | Well , as near as possible because , erm , I mean I was appointed to , to Africa while I was still in college |
| 4 | ‘ Have you forgotten I 'm engaged to your brother ? ’ |
| 5 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 6 | A general waiver has been granted by the Council to permit the establishment of staff bonus schemes which make payments to employees calculated by reference to the gross fee income or net profits of the firm ; which are open to all employees subject only to a short ( maximum three years ) qualifying period ; where the basis of distribution ( length of service , proportionate to salary etc ) is disclosed to the staff , but where the actual level of profits or income need not be so disclosed ; and where no distribution is permitted which is related to the introduction of business . |
| 7 | He found himself being introduced to Agnes , and managed to withdraw his gaze from one sister to the other and to make some rather incoherent answers to the Countess 's greetings . |
| 8 | For a moment it looked as if Evans might resist , then he let himself be led to the sofa where he sat down quietly with his head between his hands and began to cry . |
| 9 | Erm as with many , many parts of the Gospel you 're expected you 're expected to be able to look more deeply than on the surface . |
| 10 | Do n't you know she 's betrothed to Nahum Plunkett ? |
| 11 | The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny . |
| 12 | She is the only female character allowed into the fortress den and as the story develops she is shown to be both sensitive and sensible . |
| 13 | The thing is , with this I do n't think half the people listen to you 're meant to know you 're meant to , in these exams you 're meant to have everything you should know and everything else |
| 14 | There 's bound to be something of , alright if I say there 's bound to be perhaps this year there wo n't but |
| 15 | She was too lost in misery , and when she found herself being lifted to her feet embarrassment added itself to the misery . |
| 16 | Practising their bows in front of bedroom mirrors in their eagerness to be accepted , they quickly realise they are doomed to the furthest fringes of company life . |
| 17 | Nurses who found her were reduced to tears when they read a heart-rending note pinned to her dress . |
| 18 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 19 | Has it been shown to any dentists ? " |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't know it was meant to be fancy dress though . ’ |
| 21 | I mean , erm , if you did n't know it was meant to be serious , you might think it was a great send off of psychoanalysis , you know . |
| 22 | On opening it was seen to be empty . |
| 23 | When barley is harvested it is taken to a maltings where the grains are soaked in water to encourage germination . |
| 24 | At this point , the DC is in state CREATED and the user who created it is said to be the ‘ associated user ’ . |
| 25 | But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later . |
| 26 | When the hopped wort has been cooled it is run to fermenting vessels where it meets its destiny with yeast . |
| 27 | Her husband — there was no glow now — had clearly forgotten he was wed to her ; the link between him and this woman was almost visible . |
| 28 | In first time and a better fish , we even joked it was bound to be another twenty ! |
| 29 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 30 | A small button underneath the mouse can be pressed to reveal which channel it is set to by counting the number of times a neighbouring LED blinks . |