Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its use has thus been extended to experiments on the essentially non-linear developments further downstream . |
| 2 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 3 | The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life . |
| 4 | The third of Salter and Tapper 's concept , the ‘ means ’ to support change , has not been offered to arts education , whereas funds for the development of more vocationally orientated education have been forthcoming , as a glance at the original categories of ESGs , TVEI and GRIST demonstrates . |
| 5 | The ebenficial effect of this practice on activity of disease and linear growth has not been subjected to confirmation in a controlled trial . |
| 6 | Music without slurs and dynamics looks dead , because it has not been brought to life . |
| 7 | The difficulties of co-ordinating the work of counties and districts , or regions and districts , has not been confined to questions of status relating to the former county boroughs . |
| 8 | The movement towards organic production has not been confined to fruit and vegetables . |
| 9 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 10 | But the preservation of Iona 's unique qualities has not been left to chance . |
| 11 | This could well explain the fact that the trend since 1970 towards deferring first births has largely been confined to women with more education ( see Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | He is working in an expansive form : the field of panoramic realism which , since the 19th century , has largely been left to writers of commercial fiction . |
| 13 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that the doctrine of fundamental breach , as a rule of law , has finally been laid to rest by Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , and it would now appear that fundamental breach is relevant only as a factor to be considered in the construction of the contract . |
| 14 | From the records of the Crown Court , Bradford , comes news that Mr D BOWIE has finally been brought to book for his current misdemeanours . |
| 15 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |
| 16 | Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission . |
| 17 | Developed for MVS mainframes , Huron has already been ported to Intel 80486 machines , with an IBM RS/6000 version due in the first half of this year . |
| 18 | Will the right hon. Gentleman stop juggling and manipulating figures and pretending that large-scale assistance has already been given to Lanarkshire ? |
| 19 | But he warned : ‘ Nigel has already been compared to Kenny Dalglish and I think that 's a bit unfair on him and on the fans . |
| 20 | This will emable 35mm film to be used together with video , sound and animation in many sorts of software.The Photo-CD technology has already been licensed to Fuji and Agfa . |
| 21 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 22 | A third of this accommodation has already been let to Deminex and we have also extended and upgraded our premises at East Tullos at a cost of £500,000 to support a new long-term contract with Enterprise Oil . |
| 23 | The show has already been sold to Sky Television , a couple of cable networks and a European Satellite channel . |
| 24 | ISOTOPIC heterogeneity in ocean island basalts has generally been ascribed to processes related to the long-term cycling of mantle material . |
| 25 | In 1736 Noon published another anonymous tract which has always been attributed to Bayes — An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions , and a Defence of the Mathematicians against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst . |
| 26 | Mr. Andrew has always been devoted to Kate , Mr. Mottram , but I could n't say the same about her . |
| 27 | Much language study , and a good deal of language teaching , has always been devoted to sentences . |
| 28 | Whereas the support the farmers received right , has always been coupled to production , so the more they produce , the more support they get , the higher , the higher their incomes . |
| 29 | Civil mobile systems are at an early stage of development but a low power band has been proposed , centred on 3.455GHz , and consideration has also been given to operation of future land mobile systems around 3.4GHz . |
| 30 | This woman works at a Garrimpo and has also been exposed to mercury vapour . |