Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the information which the ‘ midyear population estimates ’ provide is limited to sex and age group and is not normally available for a finer grain of spatial unit than the local authority district and health authority area . |
| 2 | If you like being condemned to death and followed around by loonies with slippers on and becoming involved with weird prophecies from the dawn of time , it 's a lot of fun ! |
| 3 | The case of Martin Smid — the student whom thousands believe was beaten to death by the riot police just down the road last Friday — was raised . |
| 4 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been sentenced to death . |
| 7 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 9 | So you 've been demoted to post-boy ? ’ |
| 10 | Doe Contracts , ( ) , is one company which has responded with ‘ enthusiasm ’ to the LTA initiative over acrylic surfaces , and has recently signed an agreement with GreenSet , a company whose product range includes the appropriately named Grand Prix acrylic and cushioned acrylic surfaces , 10,000 of which , ( acrylic ) , have been constructed to date in Europe . |
| 11 | The distributions of forest passerines in Africa show centres of endemism , centres of richness and disjunctions , which have been fitted to refugia theory , but close examination of the geographical ranges of subspecies of the Heliconiini and Ithominae groups of butterflies gives 44 centres of endemism in tropical America , though the two groups have very different ecological characteristics . |
| 12 | Formulae have been devised to measure segmental colonic transit with radio-opaque shapes . |
| 13 | Other cases of congenital diarrhoea have been ascribed to absence of intestinal apical membrane Na + /H + exchange . |
| 14 | Seven Egyptian terrorists have been sentenced to death for their part in the murder of a British nurse . |
| 15 | Thus metal surfaces which have been exposed to air , even at room temperature , are usually oxide-coated ( Fig. 6.6 ) , and the oxides present are not always those we might anticipate from a knowledge of the stability of bulk oxide samples . |
| 16 | These are done using the formula Wealth 1 — Wealth 0 as illustrated in the chapter as this is the only way of calculating profit to which the students have been exposed to date . |
| 17 | In those who have been exposed to infection the entire penis is scrubbed with liquid soap and water for several minutes , and then washed with mercuric perchloride lotion 1:2000 . |
| 18 | From the ages of the samples it is possible to establish the length of time for which certain regions on the Moon , particularly the maria , have been exposed to bombardment . |
| 19 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 20 | Various other items of plant have been transferred to group factories . |
| 21 | More than 55 females , from babies to elderly women , have been killed during the first year of the Uprising ; shot dead with live ammunition , rubber and plastic bullets ; suffocated with tear gas and some have been beaten to death . |
| 22 | The latest Socata single — the TBM 700 turboprop capable of a 300 knot cruise with seven passengers — may be out of the range of most of us , but 78 firm orders have been received to date , and it looks like they have another winner of their hands . |
| 23 | We told how monkeys from the two parks have been sent to Shamrock Farms , near Brighton , for breeding — and have then been sold for medical research or slaughtered . |
| 24 | ‘ AN upsurge in Russian naval activity has mystified Western intelligence and led to speculation that ships and submarines have been sent to sea to prevent them causing trouble at home … the increased activity coincides with a statement by the navy 's chief , Admiral Vladimir Chernavin , detailing ambitious — and expensive — plans for powerful aircraft battle groups able to operate independently anywhere in the world . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I know a few Romanies have been sent to prison for poaching — but so have a great many gorgios . |
| 26 | Many of those who have been sent to prison rely on income support alone . |
| 27 | A number of women with no income have been sent to prison because they were unable to pay the poll tax . |
| 28 | The two histidines ( arrowed ) have been crosslinked to DNA in chromatin . |
| 29 | Conserved basic residues , as well as the two histidines that have been crosslinked to DNA , are shown in blue . |
| 30 | Salati and Vose ( 1983 ) , for example , believe that of the 8 x 10 6 km 2 of tropical forests that have been converted to agriculture , some 3 × 10 6 km 2 are now under shifting cultivation while 3.5 × 10 6 k 2 have been converted to pasture . |