Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A safety valve releases any excess pressure once the air chamber has been filled to capacity . |
| 2 | Had he succeeded , Ireland might have been annexed to France , though , mind you , we 'd have been no better off than under England . |
| 3 | This territory had been annexed to Poland after its occupation by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War , a situation accepted de facto by the Western powers at the Potsdam conference of July-August 1945 ( the northern part of East Prussia being at the same time incorporated into the Soviet Union ) . |
| 4 | Work started on integrating the collection into the NLS catalogue in 1987 and approximately 950 titles from the collection have been catalogued to date . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Ripa di Meana has been recalled to Italy as Environment Minister [ see separate item ] . |
| 6 | After a few months however , Mr Wilson had been recalled to London as the head of his company had been tragically killed in an automobile accident . |
| 7 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 8 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
| 9 | He questioned the evidence given by Professor Austin Gresham , a Home Office pathologist and Professor of Morbid Anatomy at Cambridge University , who conducted a second post-mortem examination on Miss Ward 's remains after they had been flown to Britain by her father , John Ward . |
| 10 | Two of those who suffered , now both seven years old , have been flown to Britain to study . |
| 11 | Kerry , of Sheffield , had been flown to Corfu by the Mirror — in liaison with South Yorkshire police — after a ‘ positive ’ sighting of three-year-old Ben . |
| 12 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 13 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 14 | Keywords are assigned to resources that match both pupil and teacher criteria , the inquiry/communicating skills required of pupils and the resources being indexed . |
| 15 | It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards . |
| 16 | All registered students on taught courses are assigned to studies advisers who guide in matters affecting course content , assessment and progress . |
| 17 | Modules are assigned to levels , the higher levels using proportionally more groupwork and projects and , correspondingly , placing less reliance on lectures . |
| 18 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 19 | However , the rules by which such indices are assigned to words are not totally reliable . |
| 20 | Once a suitably-sized range of IPX addresses is assigned , the network administrator allocates those numbers according to local need and individual network numbers are assigned to servers , routers and network segments . |
| 21 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 22 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 23 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 24 | Will the hon. Gentleman give an assurance , which is urgently needed on Merseyside , that every effort will be made to ensure that contracts for Irish sea exploration are given to firms in the north-west of England in general and to Merseyside in particular ? |
| 25 | Under the fund 's rules grants are given to projects if they promote the development of declining or under-developed regions , improve their infrastructure and create jobs . |
| 26 | Many birds and mammals may have alarm calls that are given to objects that other members of their species have indicated are frightening . |
| 27 | To assist them the Government has made the west of the region a Development Area in which special grants are given to industries . |
| 28 | When tests are given to adults , it may increase co-operation if a test has high face validity . |
| 29 | Problems requiring information are given to pupils both as individuals and as members of groups and formative evaluation , both by teachers and pupils , of their inquiry/communication skills will be an integral part of the Unit . |
| 30 | Certain opportunities are given to backbenchers to choose the subject matter for debate . |