Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd at the Manor were treated to the good , the bad and the ugly side of Oxford United . |
| 2 | After the defeat of the battle of Hastings the parish was given along with others to Odo , Bishop of Bayeux , half brother to William I , but at an assembly at Penenden Heath in 1076 , led by Lanfranc , Archbishop of Canterbury , the Manor was returned to the Church of St. Andrew , Rochester . |
| 3 | But France pointedly refused to participate in meetings where substantive decisions affecting the nature of the EEC were scheduled to be taken . |
| 4 | In Scotland work in the Highlands was confined to the summer months allowing a full scale revision of the coalfields to be started . |
| 5 | The RAF was thought to be responsible for 32 murders over 20 years , the most recent being that in April 1991 of Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand privatization agency [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 6 | As of late November the Nasir group still claimed to control Malakal , whereas the government account stated that the town had been attacked abortively by a group led by a local religious leader , and Garang 's wing of the SPLA was said to be claiming that the town had been captured by " southern nationalists " within the army , aided by the southern rebel faction calling itself Anyanya II . |
| 7 | The PGL were expected to coast home at Pickie against the Bowling League of Ireland . |
| 8 | In 1974 the value of the SDR was linked to a basket of sixteen national currencies , so the link with gold was severed . |
| 9 | He did n't want Eileen to lie in the Catholic cemetery in Naas , since the place reserved for the Arbuthnots was forbidden to her . |
| 10 | Gas prices in the Netherlands are linked to the price of heating oil and have fallen due to the generally over-supplied nature of the oil products market . |
| 11 | Apple Computer , Inc. in the States is claimed to be the world leading computer manufacturer , and in January 1992 , they advocated a prospect and development for ‘ PDA ( Personal Digital Assistant ) ’ information devices of a new category which would bridge the gap between the current personal computers and consumers electronics . |
| 12 | Three Senior Professional Officers ( SPOs ) were rapidly appointed to County Hall posts to act as a channel of communication for the CMHTs ( for the sake of simplicity , the key contribution of the SPOs is subsumed to a large extent within our discussion of the CMHTs ) . |
| 13 | Two crew members of the Glenmore were winched to safety by helicopter shortly before their vessel went down . |
| 14 | Animal production in the Auvergne is estimated to be worth 4,700 million FF Per annum . |
| 15 | Up to 10,000 armed Palestinians live in Sidon and the surrounding hills , and the PLO is bound to be accused by its enemies of involvement in the kidnappings at the very moment when President Mubarak of Egypt is trying to involve PLO supporters in peace talks with Israel . |
| 16 | The Volvo is gone to who knows where . |
| 17 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 18 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 19 | When Bonnie Prince Charlie left after a brief visit during his march on England in 1745 , the Earl of Traquair vowed that the resplendent Bear Gates ( the ‘ Steekit Yetts ’ ) should not be opened again until the Stuarts were restored to the throne . |
| 20 | The DoH is committed to monitoring the new arrangements until July , but the findings will not be released until then . |
| 21 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 22 | The LDP was returned to power at the general election of Feb. 18 , 1990 [ see pp. 37237-38 ] . |
| 23 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 24 | Early in the nineteenth century the Devon was shipped to Tasmania and was exported to mainland Australia at intervals during the century until health restrictions put an end to imports . |
| 25 | In addition , its future is uncertain , as the original funding from the GLC is known to be running short . |
| 26 | The powers of the GLC were passed to the London Boroughs , except in the cases of services that crossed boundaries , such as the fire services , which are managed under joint boards . |
| 27 | The GLC was meant to be the dominant authority ( see section 1 ) , with the LTE as its instrument , and the power of the GLC to make grants to the LTE ‘ for any purpose ’ was strong evidence of this . |
| 28 | The CRE is committed to good race relations . |
| 29 | He replied that although the PVQ was designed to be completed easily , the JMU was always open to suggestions for improvements . |
| 30 | G Those discussions were fitted into a regular CDP meeting which itself discussed ‘ polytechnic autonomy ’ , and in which a variety of views were recorded — the institutions were at different stages of development ; the CNAA had established national status and its degrees were accepted currency ; the CNAA was known to be giving serious attention to ways and means of giving greater freedoms to experienced colleges ; emphasis should not be placed on charters as such … . |