Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | MULTISTRANDED DNA structures based upon guanine association have been proposed to be important in the structure of chromosome telomeres and in immunoglobulin class switching . |
| 2 | Several murders of Shah supporters in exile have been attributed to them … |
| 3 | At Culham , the very special skills developed for the fusion programme have been transferred to a variety of other applications , including Strategic Defence Initiative ( ‘ Star Wars ’ ) work for the US Government . |
| 4 | The jury in the trial of four men accused of running a drug smuggling ring have been sent to a hotel for the night . |
| 5 | Since 1987 the results of prospecting for gold and silver have been passed to the BGS by the Crown Estate Commissioners and will eventually be available for public inspection along with other information from the BGS archives . |
| 6 | Union officials representing research workers in the coal industry have been called to a conference of mining unions to discuss the effect of this week 's big round of pit closures . |
| 7 | Swimmers in distress have been carried to safety on dolphins ' backs . |
| 8 | Responses to hypoglycaemia in a laboratory setting have been reported to be different in patients taking human and animal insulin . |
| 9 | I do happen to have responsibility for nearly two thousand lives on board , though God knows my powers of concentration have been tested to the full of late . ’ |
| 10 | Typical values are shown in table 8.1 , but ψ 1 values measured for systems such as polystyrene + cyclohexane have been found to be almost ten times larger than those derived from other methods of measurement . |
| 11 | It is also worth bearing in mind that data on the benefits of conventional antihypertensive therapy have been derived to a large extent from subjects less than 65 years of age ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 13 | Radical proposals to restrict rod licences to those who have passed an angling test have been handed to the Sports Council review panel by the Institute of Fisheries Management . |
| 14 | Since then many customs officers formerly involved in border control work have been switched to flexible anti-smuggling teams , often working on tip-offs . |
| 15 | Since 1985 the white grapes of this village have been elevated to grand cru status , but , while its black grapes have increased from 90% to 95% échelle , they maintain the rank of premier cru . |
| 16 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 17 | The 20 groups of Tory MPs asked by Margaret Thatcher last year to write policy papers for the next manifesto have been told to hand in their work to Number Ten by the end of the month . |
| 18 | However , head size , birth weight , and intelligence have been shown to be inversely and linearly associated with maternal phenylalanine concentrations , again without any obvious threshold in effect . |
| 19 | Copies of the digest have been sent to all district councils , district sports councils and sports development groups and I am sending copies to governing bodies for information in the hope that the governing body itself or your district associations might become involved in the local planning process . |
| 20 | At Ingoldmells , to the north of Skegness , heaps of debris have been found to be the result of salt-workings in the late Bronze Age . |
| 21 | I suspect that higher amounts of compensation have been paid to those who have been allegedly ill-treated by the state than to the victims of terrorism in the Province . |
| 22 | The first seven rooms of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum have been reopened to the public . |
| 23 | Recent PhD graduates of the Institute have been appointed to faculty positions at leading universities , such as MIT and LSE , and positions in financial institutions such as Salomon Brothers , CSFB and the Bank of Italy . |
| 24 | While the NHS Management Executive recognises the clinical terms project as fundamental , considerably less thought and budgeting have been given to the inputting of the codes . |
| 25 | Telephone calls to their home have been diverted to the Stockton Conservative Association office in Russell Street , but no one was answering yesterday . |
| 26 | The Committee itself concluded ‘ that the overall technical standard of the operation has been high , both in the sense that the signal itself has been generated with great skill and proficiency and that the practical and logistical problems associated with presence of televising personnel and equipment have been kept to a minimum ’ . |
| 27 | Thousands of preachers of the Gospel have been stirred to renewed zeal by reading the Reformed Pastor . |
| 28 | Bacteria found in pond , marsh and swamp sediment have been discovered to " eat " chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , according to a scientist at the US Geological Survey , Derek Lovley . |
| 29 | If anything , studies suggest the opposite : children and young adults with crude fantasies of aggression have been found to be more openly aggressive in their behaviour than those whose aggressive fantasies are muted or contain elements indicating that they are as concerned with the dangerous consequences of their aggression as they are with the aggression itself . |
| 30 | The tombs represent a period of wealth and expansion in the sixth and seventh centuries B.C. Many of the finds in sculpture and decoration have been taken to museums , but the chambers remain . |