Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Emeritus Professor Richard Gregory , founder of the famous Bristol Exploratory , has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society . |
2 | Harry Durrant , 92 , is one of only 24 veterans from throughout Britain who has been invited to RAF Marham in Norfolk . |
3 | ( WES TO READ NEXT ) That 's the conclusion of a new report which says an area the size of four counties has been lost to development since the war . |
4 | BLOW ONE : One of the best winter hotspots on the Warwickshire Avon has been lost to anglers following a decision by Stratford-On-Avon District Council amenities committee to ban fishing opposite the Hilton Hotel in the town . |
5 | 240 is the earliest possible date and their appearance at Verulamium has been dated to c . |
6 | Meanwhile , Ripa di Meana has been recalled to Italy as Environment Minister [ see separate item ] . |
7 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
8 | One of them , the 22 year-old occupier , has been charged with supplying cannabis and possession with intent to supply and has been bailed to Wrexham Magistrate 's Court on July 14 . |
9 | The second man , 20 , has been charged with possession of cannabis and Ecstasy and has been bailed to Court on July 7 . |
10 | He has been chattered to death . |
11 | I was present at the sale and bought a set of Keesing 's Contemporary Archives which have proved invaluable though I have used them with the usual misgivings that accompany the enjoyment of a benefit which has been denied to others . |
12 | Membership for the purposes of the Act of 1986 could be relevant only if that of itself conferred some right of appeal which has been denied to Winchester . |
13 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
14 | Mr Paul Boateng has been appointed to Labour 's front bench Treasury team , the first black MP to be given a front bench post in Parliament . |
15 | The dividend total has been cut to 3.25p from 6.5p . |
16 | The uplift has been cut to length with a small hacksaw . |
17 | Reporting yesterday a pre-tax loss for last year which has been cut to £21.4 million , from £37.7 million in 1991 , he forecast a steady increase in sales this year , spurred by a recovery in the market . |
18 | Here , though , is a very brief account of what has been done to date and what was found . |
19 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
20 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
21 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
22 | Once that subject has been done to death I daresay they will bring up the subject of his large family . |
23 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
24 | During the year General Accident 's French-based life company , General Accident Vie SA , has been transferred to GA Life . |
25 | Meanwhile Winston Scott has been transferred to Albany prison on the Isle of Wight , where he was on hunger strike for a week after being placed in solitary confinement . |
26 | Marshall has been transferred to Carstairs State Hospital for observation . |
27 | Each station is to be individually questioned , and an original deadline to provide information by August has been extended to October . |
28 | Previous legislation , which came to force on January 1 , 1987 , permitted patients to see only their hospital records , but now the right has been extended to records made in all medical institutions , including records made by private practitioners . |
29 | The closing date for the Croner 's Practical Hygiene offer made on the insert in this edition of Hospitality has been extended to May 31 . |
30 | This formalism has been extended to space-times with two space-like Killing vectors by Kitchingham ( 1984 ) , although he initially applied it only in the cosmological context . |