Example sentences of "and be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 2 | Some of these cuddly toys , like the one featured in this project , had arrived in someone 's childhood as a gift from Grandma , and been loved to bits by its owner . |
| 3 | In his day a College of Advanced Technology , it has since grown in size and been raised to the status of a university , but without putting on any airs and graces . |
| 4 | She had returned to Benedict 's and been appointed to Casualty after working for six months with the retiring Sister Casualty , five years ago . |
| 5 | Now , however , it has suffered a fate common to most of Darlington 's fountains , and been relegated to a forgotten corner . |
| 6 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 7 | John Leacock had been educated at Christ 's Hospital in London and been apprenticed to a firm of British merchants in the island , Catanach & Murdoch . |
| 8 | Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years . |
| 9 | There was an air-raid shelter in the front garden which at home would have provoked embarrassment and been subjected to vigorous camouflage with hardy perennials ; here it evoked no more than amused pride . |
| 10 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 11 | For twenty-four hours Ferdinando 's rage had continued and been listened to most sympathetically by the Brownings . |
| 12 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 13 | Maureen had returned to the wool shop and told Anne that her customer who knew the O'Neills had said that Kathleen had been injured on her head and shoulder by shrapnel and been taken to hospital in Winwick several miles outside Liverpool . |
| 14 | The two girls had been fetched by car , the Prince 's car , from the salon and been taken to the river at Beni Suef , where the dahabeeyah had called in for them . |
| 15 | Radiation readings are taken every hour at each station and are transmitted to a central computer which analyses the data . |
| 16 | Details of our reductions for children are given in the price panels , and are applied to the basic holiday price shown , before adding any room , meal or flight supplements . |
| 17 | Construction materials vary considerably and are determined to some extent by the water quality . |
| 18 | Mycotoxins are produced by certain fungi and are suspected to be the deadly ingredient in yellow rain . |
| 19 | The two 10-tonne rams came from an old Volvo dump-truck and are connected to a cross-shaft at the top . |
| 20 | The panels or arrays are used to run electrical appliances or systems and are connected to batteries to store surplus power . |
| 21 | Pipe clips come in different sizes depending on the size of pipe to be supported and are connected to the wall with a single screw ( often round-head ) passed through the centre and screwed into a wall plug . |
| 22 | Accommodation is in comfortably furnished thatched chalets , all facing the sea and beach , and are joined to the central restaurant and bar by a covered walkway . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to the Assembly and are appointed to office by the Governor General upon its recommendation . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor-General acting upon its advice . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister ( currently John Compton ) and Cabinet are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor General acting upon its advice . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister ( currently James F. Mitchell ) and Cabinet are responsible to the Assembly and are appointed to office by the Governor General acting upon its advice . |
| 27 | Executive power is exercised by a Prime Minister ( currently Rabbie Namaliu ) and a National Executive Council ( Cabinet ) who are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor General acting upon its advice . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor-General acting upon its advice . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to the Assembly and are appointed to office by the Governor-General acting upon its advice . |
| 30 | The base and emitter pins of the transistor go through the board holes where shown and are soldered to the foil . |