Example sentences of "be [verb] in [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no word-class corresponding to RP/ ? / , so that , for example , the two lexical items in the phrase good food are assigned in Belfast to the same rather than to different classes as in RP /g?d fu:d/ . |
| 2 | The majority of islanders who are fishermen are based in Ness to the very north of Lewis yet will tie up their boats in Stornoway and drive home . |
| 3 | The original seven dwellings to the acre had been raised in Britain to around seventeen , at which density ‘ culs-de-sac and walkways , cars and garages did not merge into the landscape so happily . ' ’ |
| 4 | There will be an outing to Weymouth on Thursday , September 3rd , names to be given to the secretary , and an outing is to be organised in June to Harvey 's of Bristol or to the Royal Mews and Queen 's Gallery . |
| 5 | The Intel machines branded ‘ The Amstrad Professional Series ’ will be built in Ireland to Amstrad 's specification and feature Overdrive , a socket that enables the machine 's microprocessor to be upgraded . |
| 6 | The building will be opened in November to considerable celebrations and a number of cultural events have been timed to coincide with the opening . |
| 7 | Sales maximization and market share objectives are said to be preferred in Japan to short-term profits , although the two strategies are not necessarily mutually exclusive . |
| 8 | The full text of the Bishop 's message can be read in Foreward to the Diocesan Year Book 1993 , described as a detailed insight into the abundant life of the Diocese ( available in all parishes before Christmas ) . |
| 9 | Elthor Dark Darah , the only champion to have been bred in Barbados to date . |
| 10 | The project crew has yet to appear in Punta del Este , so the crew has no money to pay bills already incurred , and their passports have been left in France to be given Australian visas . |
| 11 | The first appointments were made in January to a new Cabinet of Ministers , created as part of the restructuring of the senior government leadership approved in December . |
| 12 | The 114 deputies who had supported the independence move were understood in August to be facing possible criminal charges , together with all those who had struck in their support . |
| 13 | They were born in Staffordshire to a local farmer . |
| 14 | We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam |
| 15 | As this extract indicates , increasing attention is being paid in Britain to the problems of the elderly . |
| 16 | By November 1965 , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association was being launched in London to the full glare of press publicity by James Dance , MP for Bromsgrove , by then another leading figure in the campaign . |
| 17 | In his absence Airikyan , who had been expelled to Ethiopia but had settled in Los Angeles [ see p. 36489 ] , had been elected in May to the Armenian Supreme Soviet . |
| 18 | In the years immediately before the Reform Act , frequent reference is made in Scotland to Boroughmongers , although , as the spelling shows , the term was of English origin . |
| 19 | Quinine , taken in the evening , is reckoned in Iran to be a useful aphrodisiac . |
| 20 | Another distinctive type of patinated metalwork , known as bidri , has been made since the seventeenth century or earlier and is produced in India to this day ( fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 21 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA has now sold a block of 5.6% of its ordinary shares to Digital Equipment Corp , bringing DEC 's holding in Olivetti to almost 10% and fulfilling the agreement concluded last year , which gives the Italian privileged access to DEC 's Alpha RISC . |
| 22 | In earlier years a great deal of lip service had been paid in Scandinavia to cooperative efforts , up to and including economic cooperation ; but the several discussions had been infrequent and without any tangible results . |
| 23 | Government approval was given in September to a development scheme to transform Leith into a deep water Port with impounded water . |
| 24 | The first questionnaire was completed in February to March 1988 before the smoking education projects were started . |
| 25 | Mr Devaty was sentenced in August to 20 months in jail on charges of incitement connected with the petition . |
| 26 | The former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) Hussain Mohammad Ershad , was sentenced in Dhaka to 10 years ' " rigorous imprisonment " on June 12 after being found guilty by a special tribunal of illegally possessing firearms . |
| 27 | Lepine , né Gamil Rodrigue Gharbi , was born in Montreal to Monique Lepine and her Algerian husband , Rachid Liass Gharbi , on October 20 , 1964 . |
| 28 | For little Panos , the child who sparked such excitement , WAS born in Greece to British parents . |
| 29 | Lam 's biography seems tailor-made for todays ' infatuation with multiculturalism : he was born in Cuba to a Chinese father and a Creole mother , he was a Roman Catholic fascinated by Santeria ( Cuban animism ) , his studies and work took him to France , Spain , the United States and the Caribbean , and each of his three wives came from a different European country . |
| 30 | Mrs Hymes was born in Chester to the Hand family , and her father was a well-known member of the Chester Corporation . |