Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mycotoxins are produced by certain fungi and are suspected to be the deadly ingredient in yellow rain . |
| 2 | The changes were supported by all the major parties and were expected to be approved by parliament in due course . |
| 3 | Their home is called Gracelands and is dedicated to the memory of Elvis . |
| 4 | Purchases of shares issued as a result of bonus shares and scrip dividends in respect of the original shares are , in general , also treated as distributions and are deemed to be purchased first ( ICTA 1988 , s211 ) . |
| 5 | These discs cover a wide range of musical styles and are supplied to you free of charge ; you only pay for them if you use them . |
| 6 | A lightweight splash garment for chemical processing personnel who work in hot , humid environments and are exposed to corrosive chemicals is now available . |
| 7 | Established stable star , Golden Freeze , who misses the King George after grazing a knee in a fall on the road , has responded well to antibiotics and is expected to be sidelined for only two weeks , but this injury and all the firm ground have made a mess of Mrs Pitman 's plans . |
| 8 | One set of coaching stock has been converted to air brakes and is intended to be worked by this loco . |
| 9 | Parts of the moorland — some would say too many — are used as military training areas and are closed to the public at certain times . |
| 10 | Such rationing is determined partly by the rank or importance of companies and is related to the level of deposits that they keep with the bank . |
| 11 | The maquila ( in-bond ) industry was introduced along Mexico 's northern border in the mid-1960s and was extended to the rest of the country in 1972 . |
| 12 | A FRENCH driver took it literally when he asked for directions and was told to ‘ go straight over the roundabout ’ . |
| 13 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 14 | The liquid emptying plots were all straight lines and were fitted to a single exponential function by an iterative least squares method . |
| 15 | The first use of tobacco is also unrecorded , but the plant was known to American Indians and was brought to Europe in 1558 by Spanish explorers . |
| 16 | Even in the case of the large church with a regular new members ' class , this may need to be supplemented by a sponsorship scheme in which the converts are matched with church members of the same sex and similar age and background , to help them find their feet and be introduced to the family . |
| 17 | Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary . |
| 18 | Azidothymidine or zidovudine ( AZT ) , the only drug yet approved to treat AIDS , was shown to have a number of serious side effects and was linked to an increased incidence of various forms of cancer . |
| 19 | Some 157 demonstrators were subsequently convicted of a range of offences and were sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | Hoppy 's platoon consisted entirely of ex-NCOs , who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences and were reputed to be extremely difficult . |
| 21 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 22 | ICI gives the highest priority to the proper management of all wastes arising from its activities and is committed to providing more detailed information on its discharges . |
| 23 | They come from the space between the planets and are believed to be the remnants of matter that was used to form the Solar System . |
| 24 | An impressive amateur , the 1984 super-heavyweight Olympic champion , Biggs had won all 15 professional contests and was reckoned to be a considerable prospect in the division until he was overwhelmed by Tyson in Las Vegas on 16 October , 1987 . |
| 25 | The detector output voltage is proportional to the difference between the two input frequencies and is fed to a voltage.controlled oscillator via an analogue low.pass filter . |
| 26 | This procedure is not limited to totally new projects and is applied to significant modifications to existing plants . |
| 27 | A student petition calling for the Chinese government to negotiate with student leaders attracted 80,000 signatures and was presented to Xinhua after another rally on 17 May . |
| 28 | It lives in large family groups and is said to be as shy as it is fearsome-looking . |
| 29 | In ‘ the old days ’ field officers ( at least in the southern authority ) enjoyed a high degree of personal contact with their superiors and were subjected to few demands from headquarters : |
| 30 | Relative affinities were determined in gel retardation assays and were normalized to a wild-type ( WT ) K d of 1 . |