Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — After being transferred to human insulin a number of patients have complained that they do not recognise hypoglycaemia as clearly as they used to with animal insulin . |
| 2 | After being promoted to Sergeant-Major , Cottle was summoned before a board to see if he were officer material . |
| 3 | The Rheidol line offers some of the most spectacular scenery available on Welsh railways and , as far as railway enthusiasts are concerned , the line still has much to offer even though it is still recovering after being reduced to virtual siding status in the last year 's of British Rail management . |
| 4 | They also worked shorter hours , had more chance of being promoted to supervisory and managerial positions , and they were more likely to be given fringe benefits such as membership of a pension scheme . |
| 5 | We have been left so much to our own devices — after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people 's . |
| 6 | The Behringer studio noise gate can be likened to a surgeon 's scalpel ; it 's a shining , finely-honed blade of a rack unit , innocent enough in the hands of the unwary , but capable of being used to lethal effect . |
| 7 | Each year , a number of employees suffer the galling experience of being subjected to disciplinary proceedings for misconduct which they deny having committed . |
| 8 | 8.7 It is anticipated on the basis of past experience that employees will in some respect ‘ self-select ’ for external counselling as a reaction to extreme personal stress sustained as a result of being subjected to severe violence or aggressive behaviour . |
| 9 | Thus a type II supernova occurring at the centre of our Galaxy is expected to produce a strain under the assumption that a mass of is converted to gravitational radiation . |
| 10 | So far so good , but is like being compared to like ? |
| 11 | The task of seeing that the Act is complied with is given to local weights and measures authorities , i. e. local trading standards or consumer protection departments . |
| 12 | Such roles , far from being confined to magical rites and ceremonies , have their counterparts in everyday life . |
| 13 | But then the exhibit , the quarrel , hateful and confusing in being exposed to other eyes , changed character and became after all , evidence for the defence . |
| 14 | Whether in performing experiments , or in being directed to primary sources of evidence in history , or in becoming acquainted with the journal literature , or in designing artefacts to meet a design problem , we encourage students along the path of their own immediate experience . |
| 15 | People are suffering from physical and mental problems , sometimes resulting in being taken to mental hospital . |
| 16 | For Schein , it is ‘ the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented , discovered , or developed , in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration , and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and , therefore , to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive , think and feel in relation to these problems . ’ |
| 17 | If the gutter is to be joined to existing cast iron guttering ( next door 's , perhaps ) , the appropriate connector will be needed . |
| 18 | He said that from 1991–1992 there were only five times when intensive care patients had to be transferred to other hospitals in the region , but in April and May this year alone there had been five cases . |
| 19 | Procedurally , the machinery could no longer be operated since no provision had been made , in 1922 , for functions relating to the organising of elections and previously discharged by the Lord Chancellor and Clerk of the Crown in Ireland , to be transferred to new officials , and those offices had been abolished . |
| 20 | Three-quarter-inch cassette formats : U-matic Low-Band — widely used in industry and in institutions ; U-matic High-Band — acceptable for broadcast , better quality than low-band , needs to be transferred to low-band to play back on that standard but will playback on low band equipment as black and white picture of variable quality . |
| 21 | CASE 1 : the whole table is to be transferred to magnetic tape . |
| 22 | CASE 2 : a range of entries from a table is to be transferred to magnetic tape . |
| 23 | CASE 3 : selected entries are required to be transferred to magnetic tape . |
| 24 | The next day I received a telegram informing me that my request to be transferred to clerical duties at the Ministry of the Interior had been granted . |
| 25 | Mambo Leo was to be transferred to commercial ownership and to disappear shortly after independence , but other papers sponsored or produced by the Government took its place . |
| 26 | Enter window to be transferred to Main database : |
| 27 | Enter window to be transferred to Main database : … > |
| 28 | { Window to be transferred to Main database } |
| 29 | Continuous running is only of benefit where a large number of modules are to be transferred to offline storage or where much hard copy has already been done , and many module versions can be nominated or deleted . |
| 30 | The NHS is into an era of capital charging , which is likely to be extended to other public sector bodies , including some ( such as universities ) which are formally autonomous . |