Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February , March and April , the median is also 47 per cent , so the value for March is altered to 47 . |
| 2 | The problem for IBM is going to be how to sell it . |
| 3 | A mother and daughter in the Forest of Dean are writing to more than fifty prisoners in America … including convicted killers on death row . |
| 4 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 5 | THE Beast of Exmoor is believed to be on the prowl again after a giant mystery cat terrified a family on a lonely road . |
| 6 | The dismissal of Panizo was thought to be linked to expressions of anti-Japanese racism ( Fujimori himself being of Japanese descent ) and to rumours of a coup plot within the Navy . |
| 7 | The NMR structure of CsA/CyP was found to be very different from one of the proposed models of the complex , differing in the CsA orientation relative to CyP by about 90° . |
| 8 | The sheriff of Lincoln was sent to Stamford , but he met with considerable resistance , and Peck , quoting John Selden , suggests the king himself came to the town because of the students ' stubbornness . |
| 9 | During the minority of Roger-Bernard III 's grandson , Gaston II ( 1315–23 ) , custody of the comté of Foix was granted to Bernard Jourdain de L'Isle until the count reached the age of fourteen . |
| 10 | The news-stand was not due to open for an hour but after showing his ID card to a guard Benin asked that a copy of Pravda be delivered to his office the moment it arrived . |
| 11 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 12 | The terracotta model for the figure of Hercules was bequeathed to Hoare in Rysbrack 's will . |
| 13 | In the fourth century AD the statue of Hercules was removed to the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire , Constantinople , which became a museum of ancient art ( the snake column from Delphi may still be seen in the Hippodrome ) . |
| 14 | In 1886 J. Wooten , a labourer of Wolverton was coming to his work from Old Bradwell before 6.00 am on the morning of 8 January , during a heavy snow storm . |
| 15 | And now , 5 years on , the City of Hereford is stirring to the call of the cup . |
| 16 | And on the third day after his death the human body of Jesus , still reposing in the sanctity of the divine presence , was quickened by the Spirit and the person of Jesus of Nazareth was restored to life . |
| 17 | At the Dissolution of the Monasteries , the manor of Poulton was granted to the Pagets . |
| 18 | When the vastly popular Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was appointed to Canada in 1946 , Letson — as a soldier with wide connections in business and society — proved an admirable choice as Secretary to the Governor-General . |
| 19 | At the same time ten battalions of Territorials were set to work building a new broad-gauge railway to Revigny . |
| 20 | It was here that the kings of Hungary were presented to the people . |
| 21 | The court was also told that a sale of Paramount was expected to be completed in the next fortnight for £1.5million . |
| 22 | A William Churcher of Surrey was sentenced to three months hard labour in 1890 for wilfully driving a horse and cart against a deaf lady , Victoria E. Brown , who had spurned his advances . |
| 23 | In June 1900 , Dr. Palmer of Snodland was called to an accident at Lee 's quarry but the victim died . |
| 24 | Analogically the sacrament can certainly be understood as ‘ sacrifice ’ in the sense that if it partakes of the reality it represents , the ‘ once-for-all ’ sacrifice of Calvary is applied to us as we celebrate the victory as well as the mystery of the cross . |
| 25 | In recognition of this growing business orientation , the weapons activities of AEA were transferred to the Ministry of Defence in 1973 , at which time AEA staff numbered 16,000 . |
| 26 | He confirmed that in the event of Spain being preferred to England in the seedings , then Spain would play in Turin and Belgium in Calgiari . |
| 27 | The Bank of England is understood to be keeping a watch as discussions continue between Eurotunnel and its four agent banks , which include the Midland and National Westminster . |
| 28 | When the mills of the North of England are referred to , we think immediately of the nineteenth-century factories which were built for the purpose of manufacturing yarn and textiles , rather than buildings containing corn-grinding machinery . |
| 29 | Meanwhile the Church of England was proving to be a nuisance to the government . |
| 30 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |