Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] to [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thought will have to be given now to players discouraged previously , including Ramprakash , who has had a raw deal while Hick has been favoured , and the hapless Fairbrother , for whom critics always seek reasons for non-selection . |
| 2 | The advance is to be announced today by Prof Graham Boulois , head of microbiology at Leicester University , who hopes the vaccine will be given routinely to children to protect against meningitis . |
| 3 | One strength of the technique used in this study is that it can be applied retrospectively to material produced for other purposes . |
| 4 | Schools were given pin numbers so that results could be phoned through to Newsround Results Hotline . |
| 5 | To assist this , the engine is scheduled to be moved shortly to Loughborough shed where restoration on a major scale can be achieved more easily . |
| 6 | The Japanese freighter Akatsuki Maru has arrived in France to load 1.7 tons of processed plutonium to be transported back to Japan to supply the country 's nuclear-power industry The shipment , the first of a series , has aroused great controversy worldwide because of the dangers inherent in transporting highly radioactive material across the seas . |
| 7 | Consider policy should be for all nationals , ie persons born within pre-1939 frontier of an Allied country , to be handed over to Ally concerned This final sentence underlined how keen Eighth Army was by this time to " clear the decks " in its area . |
| 8 | Labour believes schooling should be brought up to levels seen elsewhere in Europe . |
| 9 | WHEN will the much-vaunted reduction in bank rates be passed on to people struggling with mortgages ? |
| 10 | Included in the future home will be devices which will allow the owner to be welcomed home to lights switched on , curtains drawn and possibly even the dinner in the oven . |
| 11 | Only when , in April , Elizabeth made it clear that he was the one Marian exile who would not be welcomed back to England did he accept the inevitable and come to Scotland . |
| 12 | Consumers may be poisoned in their beds by improperly tested medical drugs , they may be killed over their dinner tables by unhygienically prepared food , they may be blown up to God knows where by the neighbourhood chemical complex exploding , and they may become fatally diseased in their living rooms by industrial pollution . |
| 13 | Photography can help and all the profits from this book will be sent back to Calcutta to buy medicine for Jack and his workers . |
| 14 | Brochures and leaflets , can be circulated widely to locations frequented by potential recruits . |