Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Descendants of the nomadic ‘ hordes ’ of Central Asia , many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union , whom they closely resemble . |
| 32 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 33 | And finally , the criminal injuries compensation scheme , to cut the amounts paid to people who are victims of gang rape , to cut the amount paid to people who are victims of child abuse , that shows just how much the Home Secretary cares about the victims of crime , and his other measures show that he 's far more concerned with his own career , with pleasing the Conservative party conference , and with trying to do anything , anything I mean he 's brought in whatever it is , twenty-seven proposals , one or two of them are bound to work , if you throw enough stuff at the fan , some of it usually hits the target . |
| 34 | When the remainder of the known fortified sites are plotted on a map ( fig. 7.1 ) most of them are seen to be distributed along three routes : |
| 35 | For instance , discharges frequently run from septic tanks in the grounds of country cottages , many of whose occupants are old people who have the sympathies of field men , since most of them are believed to be badly off . |
| 36 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 37 | Obviously , when there is some snow on the hills in the summer you ca n't do much , so they are very carefully made and some of them are connected to a computer , so if you have a very good coach with you he can say ‘ You 're going that right , no do it a bit more like this , or a bit more like that ’ . |
| 38 | Bingley possesses an enormous fortune and both of them are committed to each other and love one another very deeply . |
| 39 | Although the effects of loss vary from one individual to another , on the whole it seems that men tend to fare a little better in bereavement than women , and fewer of them are found to be in need of psychiatric treatment for chronic grief and depression . |
| 40 | Excuse me , can I finish , er many of them are chained to the parent 's legs while they 're collected for these people then to bring to a circus , traumatized and chained to the ground for life . |
| 41 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 42 | Some of them are held to be responsible for relaxation phenomena at low temperatures while folds are of great importance in the crystallization of polymers . |
| 43 | This hypothesis is supported by the fact that most plant families that produce bird-dispersed seeds are of very wide distribution and that several of them are held to be primitive , e.g. Annonaceae , Lauraceae , while several genera conspicuous in this trait are found in both tropical America and Australasia . |
| 44 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 45 | Consequently , even although a high proportion of particular categories of material may be in poor condition in the stacks , if not many of them are issued to readers , they may be in less danger than other items which are more frequently issued . |
| 46 | Most of them are frozen to death . |
| 47 | Then bundle up your husband and boyfriend and send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list , you will receive 16,337 men — and one of them is bound to be a hell of a lot better than the one you already have . |
| 48 | Only one in twenty of them is reduced to a dependent life in a hospital or home : considerably more , in fact , are carers for others . |
| 49 | ( There were even reports of some of them being sent to bases in Iran well away from Allied bombing , much as had been done with civil aircraft in Amman in the 1980s . ) |
| 50 | On 16th however eight of them were despatched to Maleme airfield , Crete , from where next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern Greece at first light . |
| 51 | Many of them were extended to territories for the foreign relations of which either the United Kingdom or the other party was responsible . |
| 52 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 53 | ( In fact , as will be seen later , a number of them were admitted to hospital during the last twelve months of their lives and some died in hospital . ) |
| 54 | Sixteen of them were taken to hospital with whiplash neck injuries — others were treated at the scene of the accident for cuts and bruises . |
| 55 | Some of them were shown to the solicitors of a Mr Jaggard , who was defending civil actions in the Chancery Division brought by the same company . |
| 56 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 57 | Chesarynth hoped all the secretaries were happily jacked in to some routine part of the system , or getting their jollies from the nerve-stimulators some of them were addicted to . |
| 58 | All but two of them were found to be leading personal lives that were full of achievement . |
| 59 | One of them was sentenced to be burned alive , and the other hanged , punishments dictated , apparently , not by their sexuality as such but their transvestism and use of the dildo — at once , I want to suggest , appropriations of masculinity , inversions of it , and substitutions for it . |
| 60 | Ridley J. held that putting the 190 boxes on the rail was not in this case an unconditional appropriation because it was impossible to say which of them was appropriated to any given buyer . |