Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is minimal information about patterns of USO pressure in children with problems believed to be related to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 2 | New issues and a new vocabulary bubbled to the surface of public debate , and different answers came to be given to enduring questions about who should govern and how . |
| 3 | It soon lost its exclusively maritime connotation and , from denoting simply work as a galley slave , came to be applied to other forms of penal servitude with hard labour . |
| 4 | No Roman Catholic movement of the left had appeared to help Rome in its political struggles at a time when the suffrage was spreading ; in spite of a few ‘ Christian socialists ’ , Roman Catholicism still seemed to be tied to social and political conservatism . |
| 5 | We found some discrepancies between care of the elderly and of younger people under the care programme approach , which seemed to be related to different modes of organizing service delivery . |
| 6 | Strict control of the money supply seemed to be linked to low rates of inflation in Switzerland and West Germany . |
| 7 | Various outcomes have been examined in randomised controlled trials of intrapartum fetal monitoring ; the only complication to show a lower ( and largely consistent ) decrease in the monitored groups was neonatal convulsion , and this protective effect seemed to be confined to prolonged , induced , or augmented labours . |
| 8 | At the same time Lutheran music began to be exposed to foreign influences . |
| 9 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 10 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |
| 11 | But deaths and injuries still occurred , and blame continued to be attached to ineffective , unfocused or misguided practice . |
| 12 | Her experience and expertise continued to be put to valuable use , and she found she enjoyed her increased leisure time all the more . |
| 13 | Advice on the detailed contents of BGS archives relating to proposed coal extraction continued to be provided to British Coal , under post-Lofthouse arrangements . |
| 14 | Adaptations were required of Christianity ; biblical colours had to be matched to Germanic ones . |
| 15 | Moreover , the notice that had to be given to temporary workers was always the statutory minimum ( one week if , as was usual , they had less than two years service ) rather than the extended notice ( often a minimum of four weeks ) which many of the organisations had granted to their regular workforces . |
| 16 | Mrs Rene Morris said she had been shown letters addressed to parents which said the form had to be given to head teachers before a decision could be made . |
| 17 | They were often in danger of forgetting that the good news they heard each Sunday had to be applied to everyday life if it was to have any validity . |
| 18 | In contrast , Haya de la Torre insisted that the orthodox Marxist theory concerning stages of production had to be applied to Latin America , and he urged completion of the democratic ‘ bourgeois ’ stage of political development through a combined anti-imperialist and anti-feudalist revolution . |
| 19 | He said that from 1991–1992 there were only five times when intensive care patients had to be transferred to other hospitals in the region , but in April and May this year alone there had been five cases . |
| 20 | Indeed in the Rubin and Kozin ( 1984 ) study subjects were asked to describe ‘ flashbulb memories ’ without the constraint that they had to be related to newsworthy events . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 22 | There were several other incidents in Streatham and Brixton which interrupted the through service to Croydon and Purley and occasionally cars had to be lent to other depôts . |
| 23 | had to be promoted to Joint Principal Agent to look after the party . |
| 24 | Size was not a great problem , according to Cinefex 27 ( 1986 ) , but very lightweight foam pieces had to be attached to black leotards to substitute for the original heavy suit . |
| 25 | It is also interesting to note that even though the fertility rate of female textile workers was low from the beginning of the period , this was not the case in Preston , probably because the women weavers tended to be married to general labourers rather than to fellow textile workers , again suggesting that it was the occupational status and attitudes of the husband that were more important . |
| 26 | Women workers who were covered by national insurance found that they tended to be submitted to strict surveillance by national health insurance visitors because of the unexpectedly large number of sickness claims . |
| 27 | I said I would be happy to talk to anyone but I refused to be subjected to personal attack . |