Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise stock may be withdrawn to many areas without proper records being kept . |
| 2 | The language of the original , or oddities of spelling or punctuation , can be amended to some degree — an important consideration when using such material with primary school pupils or pupils with learning difficulties . |
| 3 | In another snub , the amount saved will be redirected to Labour councillors and MEPs . |
| 4 | Any resultant interest and penalty charges will have to be explained to dissatisfied clients . |
| 5 | For Oakeshott , modern collectivism is not to be traced to Hobbesian authoritarianism . |
| 6 | The schizophrenic 's and schizotypal individual 's hypersensitivity , which many clinicians have emphasised , can be traced to weak modulation of stimuli that impinge upon the mind , leading to an undue awareness of events — both internal and external — less available to others . |
| 7 | Dieter Schori in Das Floss in Ozeanien argues that occurrences of surfing elsewhere can all be traced to Polynesian influence . |
| 8 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 9 | The origins of the battle , however , can be traced to 29 July 1914 , before the outbreak of war , when the British Fleet was prudently dispatched by Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , to its war station at Scapa Flow , off the northeastern tip of Scotland . |
| 10 | Some elements may be traced to medieval times or even earlier , but in the main local government is a product of nineteenth-century urbanisation . |
| 11 | Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times . |
| 12 | They have to decide what problems they can deal with and which need to be referred to outside specialists . ’ |
| 13 | In such instances , after discussion with the patient when appropriate , these problems may be referred to other members of the health care team such as medical staff , dieticians , physiotherapists or social workers . |
| 14 | The patient may be referred to such agencies either during or at the end of treatment . |
| 15 | I suggest that voices should not be entirely dissociated from the social context in which they function and that therefore all texts in modern spoken languages should be regarded as having ‘ the implication of utterance ’ , and be referred to typical participants in some generalised context of situation . |
| 16 | Obviously , it 's something that 's gon na develop , and er , as times does on , more and more issues are gon na be referred to this committee . |
| 17 | ‘ With her background it 'll be referred to Special Branch and Five … and that fiddled telephone … and Praeger without any background — we should have left his wallet , but they 'll trace something about him anyway — and then we can admit we went to see her — once — and what we talked about and there we are . ’ |
| 18 | They have always to be referred to pedagogic decision . |
| 19 | If that does not work , then the internal complaints procedure comes into its own and the dissatisfied client should be referred to another member of the firm ( possibly the senior partner ) or , though this perhaps will rarely be encountered , someone outside the firm who has been nominated to deal with such matters . |
| 20 | Since the barons of Auvergne are reported to have stated that their province belonged of old to the duchy of Aquitaine , the Old King was being remarkably easy-going in allowing the dispute to be referred to another commission of inquiry . |
| 21 | These cases may be referred to another agency without the NSPCC investigating . |
| 22 | All indemnity queries however will continue to be referred to Head Office Branch Claims for a decision . |
| 23 | All queries or doubts concerning breaches of Warranty should be referred to Head Office Branch Claims immediately for a decision . |
| 24 | It is only proposed to make a very brief reference to this complicated subject as the majority of collision cases will be referred to Head Office Claims — at least initially . |
| 25 | Now the details of the case will be referred to senior officers of the Gloucestershire police force in the light of the trial judge 's observations |
| 26 | It follows that any proposal for change would be referred to customary ways of thinking , and this provides for the possibility of operational techniques which realize new ideas being devised as an extension of existing practices . |
| 27 | There was , therefore , a strong and general assumption that the highest diplomatic appointments , and particularly those in the major capitals or in which a strong ceremonial and symbolic element was still involved ( notably the embassies of the Catholic powers to the papacy ) should normally be given to great aristocrats . |
| 28 | Information can be given to each child separately ( either verbally or in writing ) , so that no-one knows what the others ' information is . |
| 29 | An allocation plan should be given to each student at the commencement of training , setting out the holiday periods . |
| 30 | ‘ As I have said , the suspension of payments will be only temporary , and when the social security system has been overhauled , special consideration will be given to deserving groups . |