Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if a decision to cancel was going to be made it would have to be made now . |
| 2 | Ruth felt as if a blow had been delivered to her ribs with a mallet . |
| 3 | Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you ; he is Christ the Lord . ’ ’ |
| 4 | Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you ; he is christ the Lord . ’ ’ |
| 5 | As Slade LJ put it in Harlingdon Ltd : … the fact that a description has been attributed to the goods , either during the course of negotiations or even in the contract ( if written ) itself , does not necessarily and by itself render the contract one for 'sale by description " . |
| 6 | A cyclist has been taken to Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital after an accident on the A423 , north of Kidlington this afternoon . |
| 7 | A loss had been turned to a profit and teamwork has led to empowered people with a commitment to the business . |
| 8 | The cost of checking that a loss has been reported to the Police , Hotel or Courier and the time taken to do so must affect the decision to carry out an investigation . |
| 9 | While the branch line and the loco shed was working , a driver from the shed had unfortunately failed the railway doctor with defective colour vision and as a result had been relegated to fire-lighting and steam-raising duties . |
| 10 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 11 | A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital in north Oxfordshire tonight , following an accident on the A thirty four near Enstone . |
| 12 | Earlier , a minibus had been sent to Eton to collect the Tavistocks ' youngest son Lord James Russell , and some of his young friends including Viscount Lumley , whose parents the Earl and Countess of Scarborough were staying in the houseparty at Woburn , as were Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea . |
| 13 | Pigs are the most efficient sources of animal protein ever domesticated : 35 per cent of the food a pig consumes is converted to meat , compared to 13 per cent for sheep and 6.5 per cent for cattle . |
| 14 | A submission has been made to the Minister for Social Welfare for inclusion in the Act . |
| 15 | In America a lady had been sentenced to death for hiring an assassin to shoot her father and her stepfather . |
| 16 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 17 | To remedy this , a proposal has been made to the NUS that would make crèche facilities in different universities more similar . |
| 18 | Six years after Britain 's longest-running quiz show disappeared from our screens , a campaign has been launched to ’ bring back Bamber . ’ |
| 19 | Six years after Britain 's longest-running quiz show disappeared from our screens , a campaign has been launched to ’ bring back Bamber . ’ |
| 20 | Commenting on whether a cake had been promised to Miss Dodd , she said : ‘ We were prepared to give it to her as a donation but she cancelled the order . ’ |
| 21 | It is much more straightforward to have warrants set aside and negotiations entered into in the County Court whereas Magistrates Courts are usually unwilling to reconsider until a warrant has been returned to the court . |
| 22 | Once a surplus had been converted to gold it could be used , for instance , to reward , and to supply jewellers with the necessary raw material to produce lavish items of jewellery ; it has even been suggested that Scandinavian decorated gold pendants , bracteates , may have been a source of bullion like the later coins ( Hawkes and Pollard 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 24 | If a person had been admitted to hospital for coronary heart disease we used the date of first admission as the incidence date . |
| 25 | As the precaution was taken of recording ticket number disposed of , a name has been drawn to the attention of the Hon. |
| 26 | For example , subjects were able to remember whether a character had been referred to by name or by pronominal reference ( as in , He wo n't leave Rachel 's room / Mac wo n't leave Rachel 's room ) and whether an utterance had contained a full clausal unit or an abbreviated elliptical clause ( as in You mean that Jamie does n't know that his mother is in the hospital yet ? / You mean that Jamie does n't know that yet ? ) . |
| 27 | Similarly , by re-using salvaged beams and columns to ‘ frame ’ the atrium , a character has been given to this space which is evocative of the interior of the original building , yet does not mock its new use . |
| 28 | In a number of decided cases a landlord has been held to be acting reasonably in refusing consent in these circumstances : |
| 29 | Once a module has been copied to the hard copy volume , the Location file is updated to show that hard copy is ‘ in progress ’ . |
| 30 | Dr Richard Lacey , pioneer of the research into listeria in this country , has revealed in his studies that out of nearly 100 cook-chill foods from supermarkets , nearly a quarter have been found to be contaminated with listeria . |