Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change .
2 He was within 18 months of retirement and has since been elected to the UK Central Council for Nursing , the profession 's regulatory body .
3 Seismic confirmation has since been extended to other areas ( Cook et al. 1981 ; Iverson and Smithson 1983 ; Brown et al. 1983 ) .
4 The shadow fundholding scheme has since been extended to small practices and to a trial of fundholding for all services except accident and emergency .
5 In the National Health Service it was introduced in 1986 for General Managers and has since been extended to other levels of management .
6 An additional £74,000 has since been transferred to the Trust , making a magnificent total of over £380,000 generated by the affinity scheme in only six months .
7 The Birmingham School approach has since been applied to many different discourse types : for example , medical consultations ( Coulthard and Montgomery 1981b ) and TV quiz shows ( Berry 1981 ) .
8 The concept of field dependence was first discussed by Witkin ( 1950 ) and has since been discovered to be a relatively stable trait of the individual .
9 However , I understand it has since been resold to yet another private company , who appear to have resold the lease to the Estates who in turn sold the farmland to local landowners but rented the house to the company , presumably for a much reduced sum .
10 A wide variety of other commercial and industrial organisations has since been attracted to the country , not least because of its central location and excellent transport links with the rest of the country .
11 Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB .
12 Vasari recorded it in situ in his biography of Cosimo Roselli , but the work has since been attributed to the Master of the Fiesole ‘ Epiphany ’ , a follower of Domenico Ghirlandaio .
13 The last of the modern illuminated cars is a frigate , based originally on H.M.S. Blackpool , which has since been sold to the New Zealand navy !
14 The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 .
15 Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year .
16 Insufficient attention has hitherto been given to the role that can be played by scholarly publication in influencing harmonization .
17 ‘ We 've been financially solvent for the last five years , and the surplus has all been allocated to the new production of The Count of Luxembourg .
18 Although due emphasis has rightly been given to the quality of the care , the first priority is the provision of sufficient places in residential establishments .
19 In fact , Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland .
20 Guinness has long been exported to the Caribbean and Latin America and is now supplied through licensed and contract brewing agreements and some direct exports .
21 So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area .
22 The correction for inflation has only been applied to the final sum .
23 I wonder if this is characteristic of all our homes and whether this is likely to continue , and whether any thought has perhaps been given to using this surplus accommodation for day care facilities ?
24 Its use has thus been extended to experiments on the essentially non-linear developments further downstream .
25 Formation of clusters with unprimed T cells has thus been shown to be a functional feature of dendritic cells ; this may explain the striking appearance of S-100 protein + cells in Peyer 's patches , which are considered important sites for induction of primary immune responses .
26 In addition to pottery , the core material from bronzes that have been cast using a clay core ( see p. 84 ) can also be tested by TL , since this ceramic material has normally been fired to a sufficiently high temperature to ‘ zero the TL clock ’ .
27 Furthermore , it has been good for morale to have an ongoing project , the success of which has not been tied to the everyday ups and downs in the hurly-burly of school life .
28 That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers .
29 The information that the hon. Gentleman has , has not been confirmed to me , except in certain minor respects , but it is a serious issue with which we continue to deal .
30 Widely known for the large painted steel sculptures which brighten plazas and lobbies throughout the United States , and for his regular appearances in the New York salerooms , he is surprisingly unfamiliar in a London context and has not been treated to a museum exhibition in this country since the Tate Gallery 's survey of 1962 .
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