Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 2 | Hoffman highlights a variety of peculiar stylistic traits in a corpus of German texts written by Turkish immigrants , and shows that stylistic analysis needs to be sensitive not only to formal linguistic devices , but also to the way in which such devices operate within wider patterns of action that are linked to social and situational contexts . |
| 3 | A rates reduction for a certain period is inadequate to compensate for the great disruption that was caused to people seeking to make a living in that area — people who do not have the wherewithal or the ability to use the court system against the Minister . |
| 4 | It lies with his distinction between a form of consciousness directed to ‘ practical ’ , ‘ material ’ or ‘ real ’ activity and a different form of consciousness that is directed to social relations and is taken as constituting ideology . |
| 5 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 6 | It formed the basis of the ten-year development programme that was submitted to the government in 1973 . |
| 7 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 8 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 9 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 10 | It is a fitting that is suited to both submersible and surface pumps , but the more powerful the pump the higher and wider the sprays produced , with a proportionate acceleration of the time lapse between each change of spray pattern . |
| 11 | Almost immediately I ran across the news that the French telephone monopoly , PTT , is well on the way with a scheme for putting all the phone numbers in France into a computer that a subscriber will be able to communicate with from a terminal that is connected to his instrument . |
| 12 | A pet pig that was taken to school could have spread disease through Britain 's pig population , according to health officials . |
| 13 | A pet pig that was taken to school could have spread disease through Britain 's pig population , according to health officials . |
| 14 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 15 | ‘ She is not without intelligence , but the harm that was done to her at birth is irreversible . ’ |
| 16 | Similarly , an instrument that is expressed to be " supplemental " to a previous instrument is construed as if the supplemental instrument contained a full recital of the previous instrument ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s58 ) . |
| 17 | These nets are about the diameter of a bicycle wheel and are attached to a rope so that they can be lowered over the edge of jetties and into deep pools . |
| 18 | Sikhism is a comparatively new religion and is meant to be a religion of reform which rejects both the caste system and the oppression of women . |
| 19 | If , for example , a GEMM has acquired an unusually large amount of a particular stock and is known to be keen to sell , other market makers may cut dealing prices ; conversely , if a GEMM is known to want to buy large amounts of stock , other market makers may raise prices . |
| 20 | A medical history , electrocardiograph , blood pressure , and standard laboratory findings were obtained before the experiment and were found to be negative or normal Haematocrit was also obtained 24 hours after the experiment . |
| 21 | The fire , at Cragside , was in a first floor bedroom and was believed to be caused by electrical equipment overheating . |
| 22 | Around 500 lovers of nostalgia descended on Deal for the contest and were treated to some excellent golf on the course where the greens were in marvellous condition despite the recent drought . |
| 23 | The two girls had been fetched by car , the Prince 's car , from the salon and been taken to the river at Beni Suef , where the dahabeeyah had called in for them . |
| 24 | France of Brentwood , Essex , admitted theft and was sentenced to six months ' jail , suspended for two years . |
| 25 | Haywood , 17 , of Argyll Close , Darlington , admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and theft and was sentenced to 120 hours community service . |
| 26 | Coulton , of Ajax Way , Normanby , Middlesbrough , was convicted of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in October last year . |
| 27 | The team is to be lead by Dr. Boris Babaian of the Russian Academy of Science , inventor of the Elbrus-3 supercomputer which was developed for the Soviet space programme and is reported to be three times faster than a Cray Y-MP . |
| 28 | He made his speech — or rather sought to make it — against a barrage of noise and calls to resign from the Opposition and was listened to in stony silence by the Government benches . |
| 29 | He was also involved in lower-level search and was attached to more traditional methods . |
| 30 | De Maizière denied signing up with the Stasi , delivering information or receiving gifts or money ; his " only contacts " , he said , " came from my duties as a lawyer and were directed to being useful " to his clients . |