Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excellent examples of this have been related to me mainly about mothers-in-law and other relatives ! |
| 2 | More than 55 females , from babies to elderly women , have been killed during the first year of the Uprising ; shot dead with live ammunition , rubber and plastic bullets ; suffocated with tear gas and some have been beaten to death . |
| 3 | Some have been held to be sources of knowledge . |
| 4 | ‘ Some have been sold to private developers who are spending a lot of money on them , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Salati and Vose ( 1983 ) , for example , believe that of the 8 x 10 6 km 2 of tropical forests that have been converted to agriculture , some 3 × 10 6 km 2 are now under shifting cultivation while 3.5 × 10 6 k 2 have been converted to pasture . |
| 6 | The following have been held to be contempts of Parliament : 1 . |
| 7 | Hae III followed by Hind III have been found to be the most discriminatory restriction endonucleases with which to cut H pylori . |
| 8 | None of the other species listed in Table 2.1 have been found to be significant accumulators of bone . |
| 9 | Examples of these have been sent to employers , and it is hoped that they have had wide distribution . |
| 10 | Occasional additions have been made to the text to aid understanding ; these have been kept to a minimum . |
| 11 | Now these have been reduced to five . |
| 12 | The injured have been taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 13 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 14 | The vehicles belonged to an eccentric collector and many have been restored to full working order . |
| 15 | The Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation awards for 1992 have been awarded to Edward Dwurnik of Poland for paintings , Helga Fanderl of Germany for film and Dan Graham of the USA for sculpture . |
| 16 | All have been exposed to his scarifying eye and his audacious judgments ; he has projected on all his volatile wit and a searching wisdom . |
| 17 | All have been doomed to failure . |
| 18 | From the earliest days of observation and recording of geological features , terms such as ‘ coarse ’ , ‘ medium ’ or ‘ fine ’ grained have been applied to unconsolidated deposits . |
| 19 | Ten have been moved to other jobs , including the senior signalman , Mr Brian Hemingway , who was named as being directly responsible for the faulty wiring at Clapham Junction . |
| 20 | But this was just one more duty for the caddie ; since 1939 many more have been added to the basic requirements needed when he was a man with a bundle of hickory under his arm . |
| 21 | But while the Sain champions Caernarfon Athletic have been promoted to the Gwynedd level , the club at The Oval will continue to be involved at the grass roots by the newly formed Caernarfon Athletic Reserves . |
| 22 | Since 1954 , over 300 million tonnes of agricultural products valued at $33 billion have been sent to more than 100 countries under the programme . |
| 23 | Indeed workers over 50 have been found to be more productive than their younger colleagues because of their experience , maturity , and strong work ethic . |
| 24 | The United Kingdom received six extra seats under the agreement , of these six , five have been allocated to England and one to Wales , which the government , in a moment , which the government believes is the fairest distribution on an arithmetical basis . |
| 25 | Many have accused schools of trying to prop up ailing churches and fill empty pews , and Christian teachers in particular have been assumed to be heavily biased , teaching for commitment to their particular brand of religion and intolerant towards other religions and other world views . |
| 26 | Why would a purchased straddle be preferred to a reverse butterfly ? |
| 27 | Grants worth around £12 million have been awarded to voluntary and arts organisations this year by the Regional Council . |
| 28 | In 1989 , there were over 1000 long-term unemployed people on the Programme : this figure was planned to rise to 2000 in 1990 and over 3000 in 1991. 10 million have been allocated to JTP for 1990–1 ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Chapter 17 , Paras 44–5 ) . |
| 29 | 22 per cent of the overall decline in mortality from 1848 to 1971 have been attributed to the decline of TB in all its forms ( McKeown 1976 ) , and 45 per cent to 1900 . |
| 30 | The case of Martin Smid — the student whom thousands believe was beaten to death by the riot police just down the road last Friday — was raised . |