Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In parallel with civilianisation of the police , will my hon. Friend ensure that instructions are given to all chief constables to increase further the designation of special constables and to increase the special constabulary , which would lead to more bobbies on the beat ? |
| 2 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 3 | The crammed loose boxes to his right seemed more menacing , as though the ugliest objects had been banished to this unvisited dungeon . |
| 4 | The weather balloon is developed from the war time barrage balloons and warnings have been posted to all military and civil aircraft to keep well clear during the field experiment . |
| 5 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 6 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 7 | The ‘ ancient pine forests ’ concept is linked to another myth about chemical sensitivity — that patients who are ‘ universal reactors ’ are reacting to all synthetic organic chemicals because they come from a common source . |
| 8 | Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ? |
| 9 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 10 | 3 Where possible , procedures should be established to ensure that all documents coming from new trading partners are referred to some responsible person within the business for consideration . |
| 11 | Our pupils are exposed to many different materials , tools and processes and from the beginning they are taught the importance of the design process . |
| 12 | Owing to the competitive nature of amino acid transport across the blood-brain barrier and across the placenta , the brain in patients with phenylketonuria and the fetus in women with phenylketonuria are exposed to both high phenylalanine concentrations and low concentrations of the other large neutral amino acids , especially tyrosine . |
| 13 | Matey , like Dr Neil , thought that McAllister might have been spoiled and pampered in her old life , but she had certainly been exposed to many good principles of conduct , even if she was headstrong . |
| 14 | Never before had the Prince encountered such anger and hostility , nor been exposed to such real and persistent danger . |
| 15 | Examination of records available on smoking related activity in the control schools indicated that pupils in half of the schools had been exposed to some incidental and unplanned smoking education through events such as No Smoking Day or through associated teaching in home economics or biology . |
| 16 | We will explore in due course whether these objectives are pursued to any significant extent in practice . |
| 17 | When adult cats follow their owners they are reverting to this half-grown kitten stage . |
| 18 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 20 | Mr Harper said : ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 21 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 22 | Now , as a remarkable result of the ‘ Velvet Revolution ’ , the monks are returning to this great Premonstratensian monastery , founded in 1140 by Vladislav II . |
| 23 | These excesses are added to any other excesses which apply . |
| 24 | These excesses are added to any other excesses which apply . |
| 25 | These excesses are added to any other excesses which apply . |
| 26 | When potential problems , such as lack of appropriate living options , inadequate pensions and enforced dependency on ageing carers , are added to this objective reality , it is not difficult to see why many older disabled people feel that ageing represents a threat to their independence . |
| 27 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 28 | We are writing to all existing claimants to let them know how the change will affect them . |
| 29 | Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined . |
| 30 | There is also the problem , common to courses with high-recurrent frequency , that the guide does not remember exactly what has been said to each particular group . |