Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a tall , awkward-looking girl overwhelmed at being close to someone who had long been her idol . |
| 2 | On the same day Mohsin Siddiqi , an opposition senator known to be close to the MQM , was one of 15 people killed in Karachi by unidentified snipers . |
| 3 | i.e. it carries the presupposition that the person acted upon is subject to the dominion of the causal agent . |
| 4 | The following list is a guide intended to be useful to graduates or qualified persons wishing to take a further course of study . |
| 5 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 6 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 7 | The fate of UK telecommunications equipment manufacturers may also hang on the decision : if the UK market deemed to be open to US suppliers , the US government could decide to waive its penalties against UK suppliers . |
| 8 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State , Dean Acheson , warned the American mission in Seoul on 13 April 1949 that information had been received from a source believed to be reliable to the effect that serious trouble might arise in Korea within two months and that the initiative in these developments would be taken by South Korea . |