Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a period supporting Coastal Command based at Predannock , Cornwall , in 1943 Braham was switched to the experimental task of escorting bomber streams over Europe . |
| 2 | In 1895 Sunderland was added to the ports of call down the East Coast now being served by four steamers . |
| 3 | During the 1950s the interesting old Døle was graded to the Norwegian Red-and-White and combined into the Norwegian Red in 1963 . |
| 4 | THE proceeds of a vintage vehicle rally being held in Toomebridge this Saturday are going to the Cardiac Unit of the Waveney Hospital , Ballymena . |
| 5 | In 1684 Culpeper was apprenticed to Walter Hayes , engraver and mathematical instrument-maker of Moorfields , London . |
| 6 | At seventeen he underwent an evangelical conversion and determined to bring the Christian gospel to the Chinese , although inland China was closed to foreigners . |
| 7 | ‘ At the height of the Ethiopian famine in 1985 Oxfam was alerted to the plight of several million people who faced starvation , on the sugar-producing island of Negros , in the Philippines ’ , writes Oxfam worker Belinda Coote . |
| 8 | After the First World War some Kerries were exported to France to help repopulate areas which had been decimated by war and the small black cattle were given prime grazing in orchard meadows near the River Somme ; within nine months they looked like beef animals ! |
| 9 | Some Bari are reported to be working in the oil camps under semi-slavery conditions . |
| 10 | After leaving Franklin 's School in Leicester in 1881 Gimson was articled to a local architect , Isaac Barradale , and also attended Leicester School of Art , where he won national medals for suburban housing and for furniture design . |
| 11 | The Montenegrin poet and the Serbian philologist made friends immediately , and in 1834 Vuk was invited to Cetinje to assist in the establishment of a new printing press , using Vuk 's phonetic orthographic principle . |
| 12 | The lanky Ormondroyd was proving to be a nuisance and when he chested the ball down to Thompson he was unlucky to see his shot flash wide . |
| 13 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 14 | In February 1991 Czechoslovakia was admitted to the Council of Europe and continued to negotiate an association agreement with the European Communities as a prelude to full membership . |
| 15 | During 1942 any remaining Londons were returned to Saro at Cowes for breaking-up . |
| 16 | By 1842 Brussels was linked to Antwerp , Ostend , and the French frontier . |
| 17 | Thus great areas of central Spain were condemned to the extensive farming of cereals for low yields at great expense of labour . |
| 18 | These are tendentious claims : it is clear that men prominent in the political , ecclesiastical , legal , and learned life of later Victorian England were admitted to Christ Church in Smith 's day . |
| 19 | Some billeting arrangements were equally resented by both sides — as when Roman Catholic children from inner-city Liverpool were sent to staunchly Protestant North Wales , and some were the fault of nobody — as when in Cambridge a Greek head waiter 's wife was given a bed inferior to that provided for the wife of an under-waiter . |
| 20 | But in 1678 Joseph was elected to the committee of the East India company , serving continuously down to 1686 , and then from 1687 to 1694 and from 1698 until his death . |
| 21 | Although Central Asia was to fall to Russian arms — and soon after to the railway station — in the 1870s , it was not until the turn of the century that Siberia and the Far East bowed to the onward march of the station , here rigidly classified into a whole range of categories of importance . |
| 22 | SMR 's role was to be taken over by the Shackleton-equipped Maritime Operational Training Unit at Kinloss and the unit was scheduled to disband in September 1956 with the remaining Lancs being ferried to Wroughton to await their fate . |
| 23 | As such Mickie was transferred to the Rolls-Royce factory at Hillington , assisting with Merlin XX development , in particular overcoming problems in production . |
| 24 | At the time of writing ( Oct 77 ) the Japanese MSDF are said to be interested in fifteen aircraft to replace its mixed fleet of thirty-four prop driven aircraft . |
| 25 | Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent was expected to be ready to show two pre-production prototypes of its high-end WinServer 5000 series , one being the much-anticipated 30-way box carrying a mix-and-match assortment of Intel Corp Pentiums and 80486 chips , in itself a design feat , and the other an 18-way WinServer 5000 fitted out with only 60MHz Pentiums , a modern-day exercise in conspicuous consumption considering the rarity of the chips . |
| 26 | Of the 75,000 BTOE of solar energy which reaches the earth , only 2.3 BTOE is converted to useful energy by man — 71% is used for food production , 24% goes on the burning of wood and agricultural waste and 4% on hydro electricity . |
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| 28 | When the raids died down after May 1941 Scott was moved to the Ministry of Home Security , first as deputy ( 1941–2 ) and then as permanent secretary ( 1942–3 ) . |
| 29 | In June 1917 Maitland was appointed to the DSO for ‘ extremely valuable and gallant work in connection with airships and parachutes ’ . |
| 30 | In 1812 Jackson was co-opted to the committee of the Kildare Place Society , established in 1811 , where , as secretary , he strengthened the Protestant influence . |