Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Army on Dec. 4 revealed that a US soldier serving in Germany had been sentenced to 34 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Iraq and Jordan during the Gulf War . |
| 2 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 3 | It was reported to the Group that their request to the Council of the Law Society to commission a firm of management consultants to make an examination of the property market in Scotland had been remitted to a Special Committee of the Society comprising representatives of its Purchase and Sale of Heritage and Professional Practice Committees . |
| 4 | But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others . |
| 5 | TRADERS in Dungannon have been warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit £20 notes after ten forgeries were passed in business premises in the town . |
| 6 | Here we are fortunate in that John Evans in Cardiff , Graham Hillier in Plymouth and Tony Elliott in Singapore have been committed to promoting the company , and its capabilities , whilst supervising the locally based staff and discharging the responsibilities of the senior company representative in their geographical area . |
| 7 | Permission to prospect for oil and gas in blocks of the seabed in UK waters is given to oil companies that bid under an annual licensing round to the Government . |
| 8 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 9 | A familiar landmark in Hartlepool has been reduced to a pile of rubble by bulldozers . |
| 10 | Golf project : An extension plan for changing rooms and toilets at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake have been submitted to Wirral Council . |
| 11 | Instead , inter-union conflict in BR has been restricted to issues of occupational interests and representation ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) . |
| 12 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 13 | The one-day international in Guyana has been changed to March 7 , with the second Test there now starting on March 10 . |
| 14 | Frances Foote-Wood , Liberal Democrat northern regional organiser , said mail in Stockton had been sent to the wrong areas and in Bishop Auckland constituency some people still had not received leaflets yesterday . |
| 15 | A Nottinghamshire mining equipment company which went into receivership in September has been sold to the three men who founded the firm two decades ago . |
| 16 | The subsequent evolution of geometric perspective in Europe has been devoted to means by which this property could be used and adapted to suggest movement and change : by the introduction of multiple points of view and interlocking spaces ; by the concentration and diffusion of light and light sources ; by the Impressionist fragmentisation of surfaces . |
| 17 | This is because certain newspapers thoughtlessly mentioned that some pet cats in California had been discovered to be suffering from the AIDS virus . |
| 18 | Guy 's Hospital in London has been rumoured to be heading down the opting out path , although recently a group of consultants at the hospital expressed their opposition to the idea . |
| 19 | A current example on the summits of the Carneddau mountains in Snowdonia has been brought to the attention of WOAD by NCC , the National Trust and the Park Authority who consider that heavy grazing levels on this registered common are a major cause of worsening erosion . |
| 20 | Under the party 's rules 40 per cent of the votes in Birkenhead have been allocated to the unions and 60 per cent to individual members . |
| 21 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |