Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Robin Tavistock 's table , where I was honoured to be seated , was a superb square birthday cake , iced in Robin 's racing colours , with fifty tiny candles in miniature gold candelabras . |
| 2 | Tumbling blearily on deck in my pyjamas I was confronted by the huge bulk of a klondyke trawler ramming alongside us , and I was just in time to see her huge fender catch our motor dory and sink her where she was tied to our stern . |
| 3 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 4 | That feeling that you are not where you are meant to be . |
| 5 | A search of this size is impossible with the printed OED , where you are restricted to just those quotations including " love " which the original editors decided to put into the entry for " love " . |
| 6 | But er this is how they they wanted the work done and it was n't a question of one man had to learn the lot you just had to do work away where you were sent to work . |
| 7 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 8 | According to this account , the learning process is determined by the innate structure of the learner operating upon the specific organisation of whichever human language he or she is exposed to . |
| 9 | The function of the pre-trial review is made clear by the instructions to the district judge whereby he or she is required to ‘ … give all such directions as appear to be necessary or desirable for securing the just expeditious and economical disposal of the action or matter . ’ |
| 10 | DESPITE the Ministry of Defence 's ( MoD ) statement that no more check-flights would be undertaken on Vulcan B.2 XH558 — enabling the flightcrew to stay current should the decision to ground her be reversed , or she be flown to her next owner ( FP November , p26 ) — the mighty Vulcan flew again from Waddington , Lincs , in October and was due to fly again as this issue went on sale . |
| 11 | This is so refreshing in our instant culture , where we are invited to ‘ do ’ the Lake District in a week ! |
| 12 | Where we are held to be contracting carriers for the purposes of air or sea carriage please note that our liability is limited in the manner provided by relevant international conventions , ‘ special contract ’ with Governments or UK statute law . |
| 13 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 14 | After a morning visit to the market , we repaired to the tranquility of a nearby cafe — The Lotus Cafe , where we were treated to the sight of enormous lotuses , entirely covering a large pond . |
| 15 | These metaphors are important rhetoric devices in narratives of empowerment and emancipation , where they are used to ‘ naturalize ’ particular victimologies , and even , sometimes , to justify the enterprise of revenge . |
| 16 | The effect of trees on foundation design was discussed earlier but a physical inspection of the site should include the location of all major trees , particularly where they are required to be retained under a tree preservation order and may therefore affect layout and density . |
| 17 | If you do manage to overcome this one , the next problem is to simulate the migratory tendencies of moving upstream to fresher waters where they are reported to be pelagic egg-layers . |
| 18 | They consist of a cabinet or tunnel in which items are placed and where they are subjected to hot spray of detergent solution followed by rinse water . |
| 19 | Set gill-nets are much shorter , and are used mostly in shallow coastal seas , where they are anchored to the seabed . |
| 20 | Newco should thus be entitled to deduct interest payments as charges on income where they are paid to UK tax-paying corporate holders of share-convertible securities . |
| 21 | Relatives from east London travelled to the funeral via Upton Park , where they were said to ‘ overwhelmed ’ by West Ham supporters ' floral tributes to Moore , who died last week from cancer at the age of 51 . |
| 22 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 23 | Up to last year we used to collect used postage stamps and then when our dear friend Father Burbage left for Zambia we had to abandon it because we had no idea where they were sent to . |
| 24 | They did all the hard work , and lived in dirty little rooms in another building , where they were tied to the walls . |
| 25 | He amassed great wealth with his success , sending his pack horses with wool and cloth to London and Southampton , where they were shipped to Holland and the Low Countries . |
| 26 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 27 | The increased closure of brothels as a result of this drive forced poorer women to solicit in the open , where they were subjected to police harassment . |
| 28 | The youths were held prisoner at the Mandela home where they were subjected to vicious assaults . |
| 29 | In experiments on rats it has been shown that where experimenters expected rats to be maze-bright , the rats fulfilled their expectation and where they were expected to be maze-dull the rats also fulfilled expectations . |
| 30 | Erm or they 're related to attendance at meetings you know er no |