Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get the feeling that nothing is left to chance . |
| 2 | The answer is not difficult , if we remember that each meeting of the Assembly was different in composition from all others ; personal oratory and ascendancy , not party organization , decided the issues , and that is why the absence of Kimon mattered so much : he would have given his usual speech on the ‘ special relationship ’ with Sparta , urging that nothing be done to the Athenian constitution to which oligarchic Sparta would take mortal offence . |
| 3 | Suppose that I am committed to an ideal of conserving areas of natural beauty or variegated wild life in my country . |
| 4 | In 1945 Ottawa wrote to Ira Dilworth suggesting that I be transferred to the general production staff in Toronto and the strength of his opposition and mine resulted in the postponement of such a move . |
| 5 | Word had just come from Ottawa , he told me , confirming his suggestion that I be promoted to the post of Production Manager for the CBC , as from the end of the month . |
| 6 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 7 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 8 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 9 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 10 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 11 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 12 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 13 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 14 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 15 | ‘ That I was posted to your staff because you asked for me . |
| 16 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 17 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 18 | The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start . |
| 19 | I 'm pleased to see that she 's reverted to something close to her original appearance for the evening , though the casual style now carries designer labels . |
| 20 | TV funnygirl Pamela Stephenson demonstrates that she 's determined to be the star of this show . |
| 21 | He came to see her father and advised that she be sent to relatives in Cork and kept there till the danger to her immortal soul was past . |
| 22 | It was a seemingly endless eight months before the letter arrived announcing Fiona had qualified for a Gold Award and that she was invited to St James 's Palace in London to receive it . |
| 23 | She was uncertain whether , at work , she should be denying the rumour that she was engaged to the head of the Massingham empire , but thought that if Naylor had any strong views on the subject she 'd soon be hearing about them anyway . |
| 24 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 25 | Her level of engagement shows that she was involved to a greater extent over a much larger part of the day . |
| 26 | His moist mouth suckled , and when she gazed down at his rapt , contented face she knew that she was lost to him . |
| 27 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 28 | In February this year , the pain grew so much that she was confined to a wheelchair . |
| 29 | ‘ We conjecture that she was brought to Bartholomew Close on a market-porter 's barrow , and we feel that the journey started not too far away . |
| 30 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |