Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 2 | Scottish scallops , worth about £7,000 and due for export to Spain , have been buried alive after being found to be contaminated with heavy metals . |
| 3 | I think it 's more when we actually see people doing it , but it 's all , it 's a nice idea to give you a little bit of basic just to think about , and again we wo n't be expecting this to be demonstrated to the on this afternoon 's role page , you done all your preparations for that have n't you . |
| 4 | Another charity to provide bread for the poor was when Reginald Gregory , left 10/ in 1776 , this to be charged to his estate in Halling , Snodland and Paddlesworth . |
| 5 | A magistrate ordered this to be increased to 15 , but Crawford appealed and it was halved . |
| 6 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 7 | For were this to be admitted to be the case , the belief that their religious position ( in which women are subordinate , or hold a particular place ) is of God would be undermined . |
| 8 | Then , in 1393 , a provisional agreement was reached giving the English Calais ( which they already held ) and that part of Aquitaine south of the river Charente ( much of south-west France which was largely out of their hands at this time ) , all this to be alienated to Gaunt in the near future . |
| 9 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 10 | Dr Pertwee says there is no longer a stigma attached to cannabis research in the scientific world , although pharmaceutical companies have been less willing to be seen to be working with cannabis-like substances . |
| 11 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 12 | Averse to being talked to or even approached |
| 13 | Averse to being talked to or even approached ; morose ; irritable ; sad ; fearful ; stupid ; horror of instant death ; nightmares , night horrors . |
| 14 | Further evidence of coral reef bleaching , believed by some to be linked to rising sea temperatures caused by global warming [ see ED 48 ] has emerged from Thailand . |
| 15 | Of course he was too old to be married to that young girl . |
| 16 | Clearly , even in situations where the distribution of future cash flows is known to the auditors , then a going concern qualification 's ‘ accuracy ’ as a predictor of failure will depend on the nature of this distribution and the point at which the auditors decide that the possibility of failure is sufficiently high to be signalled to investors . |
| 17 | She was simply embarrassed at being revealed to the public . |
| 18 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 19 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 20 | We need a kind of Marshall plan which will bring to those poor suffering countries aid such as was brought to continental Europe when it lay prostrate at the end of the second world war . |
| 21 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 22 | Now that 's something we in England , in Britain I should say , are not particularly aware of , but a lot of British artists who are very well known on the Continent , that in Britain would seem , you know , too avant-garde to be known to the wider public . |
| 23 | As far as Sullivan recalled , the Shah seemed relieved to be invited to the US and suggested he should fly to Andrews Air Force base outside Washington . |
| 24 | The was occupied , against the wishes of the village , by the college , with no improvements to premises considered unsafe and too dangerous to be continued to be used as a public library . |
| 25 | ‘ This meeting , having taken into consideration the proceedings of former meetings , and being informed that many respectable persons delay giving their names as subscribers while the proceedings of the committee are subject to be reported to the Odiham Society , and are under the controul [ sic ] thereof , find it expedient to detach themselves from that Society , the work on which they are engaged being of so considerable importance , the reformation and improvement of Farriery , requiring that it should be confined to that purpose and use alone , and be under the sole management and control of its own members . |
| 26 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |
| 27 | In Tony Lumpkin 's judgement , good liquor is much to be preferred to all this . |
| 28 | He had learnt early on that it was better not to flounder ; a simple admittance of ignorance was much to be preferred to any amount of flannel . |
| 29 | Finally , it is a pity that a Bill designed to end restrictive practices should extend one of the worst in the book : but barristers ' immunity from negligence claims looks set to be extended to solicitors . |
| 30 | An historic mansion looks set to be sold to a private buyer , despite its owner 's dying wish that it be opened to the public . |