Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It 's a new lease of life for them , ’ she told her mother , but just before Sarah became ill Miss Louisa suffered a stroke and was confined to bed , and two weeks later Miss Ellen had a heart attack and was also bedridden . |
| 32 | That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report . |
| 33 | From 1 September 1988 to 1 May 1991 , 194 consecutive patients were eligible for participation in the study and were invited to the outpatient clinic for an extra visit to answer a structured questionnaire and to have a cervical scrape taken for analysis for human papillomavirus . |
| 34 | In 1864 he unexpectedly took his brother 's place as a missionary priest and was sent to Hawaii . |
| 35 | In the west , however , the acupuncture meridians and their accompanying acupuncture points were viewed with great scepticism and were considered to be merely figments of the imagination . |
| 36 | Eventually , as darkness began to fall just after 9pm , he went on board a rescue boat and was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 37 | Eventually , as darkness began to fall just after 9pm , he went on board a rescue boat and was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 38 | If a son or daughter commits a crime and is sentenced to imprisonment , the court will not allow an anxious father or mother to take their place , so how can it be that my sin can be taken by another ? |
| 39 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 40 | Each sub-unit is assumed to behave like an entropy spring and is expected to be large enough to realize a Gaussian distribution of segments ( i.e.> 50 carbon atoms ) . |
| 41 | The power of authorisation lies with the Department of Trade and Industry and is granted to each company with respect to particular classes of insurance business . |
| 42 | They were very concerned that pupils , and the ‘ bright ’ ones in particular , should be given a positive view of the industry and be attracted to it . |
| 43 | If they can come to a binding agreement , the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years . |
| 44 | One , said to be aged 18 and from Lincolnshire , was in ‘ critical ’ condition and was transferred to the Western Infirmary in Glasgow . |
| 45 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 46 | This handbook now nears completion and is scheduled to be launched at a one-day conference on Health & safety organised by the NAFD . |
| 47 | Later that evening she went into labour and was transferred to the maternity unit . |
| 48 | The interest rates on the deposits are fixed for the term and are related to the London Interbank Bid Rate ( LIBID ) of the same term . |
| 49 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 50 | Owen 's own first chosen vehicle , the co-operative community , had become an irrelevance and was seen to be impracticable . |
| 51 | It is perched on top of a rock just off the Normandy coast and is connected to the mainland by a causeway ( 435 ) . |
| 52 | Some people develop very strong appetites for recognition and are attracted to jobs which provide them with endless ‘ jellybeans ’ ; for example , the reward systems of the armed services , higher education and the professions offer substantial opportunities to be recognized and praised for one 's performance . |
| 53 | It is possible that EGF is not produced in the oesophagus but is transported to the oesophageal mucosa by the blood stream , being released from the platelets and then transported into capillary endothelium . |
| 54 | It was originally an acetylene light but was converted to propane gas operation in 1963 . |
| 55 | We hope that these materials will not only be used for private study but be subjected to critical scrutiny by school-based inservice groups sharing common curricular interests and by staff of institutions of higher education concerned with both special needs teaching and specific curriculum areas . |
| 56 | A woman is born into one lineage but is transferred to her husband 's lineage as soon as she is married . |
| 57 | His sister , Moira Coles , 34 , of Mapperley , Nottingham , admitted her part in the conspiracy but was said to be a small cog in the operation . |
| 58 | The worst moment , apart from his father 's collapse while being helped to the toilet , had been going on stage on the night of his death , and hearing Lydia Dorinskaya say , ‘ All that lives must die , /Passing through Nature to eternity . ’ |
| 59 | As for the iron test , my child sat holding on to Mummy while being read to . |
| 60 | For example , someone who accepts the official theory of life in the classroom and ‘ wants to learn ’ can be heavily sanctioned with abusive appellations from the same stock as are applied to the opposition on the terraces ( cf. |