Example sentences of "she [vb -s] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all she has been compared to Monroe , a parallel she does n't argue with although she insists she wo n't get into the same mess as the icon who screwed up her life with an overdose of men , booze and drugs . |
| 2 | She has been appointed to the Audit Commission as a manager in their Special Projects Unit , providing management consultancy to local authorities and the N.H. S. She is based in the Midlands . |
| 3 | Finally , Lowestoft members are reminded to be particularly polite to Marlene McGee , as she has been appointed to the Lowestoft bench of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 4 | It is sufficient for that person to establish that he or she has been prevented to an appreciable extent from enjoying the ordinary comforts of life ; there is no need to establish direct injury to health . |
| 5 | The girl is looking off-screen to the right , so she has been placed to the left of the frame to give her ‘ looking room ’ . |
| 6 | She has been elected to an emeritus fellowship , and has our good wishes for her retirement . |
| 7 | She has been elected to the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society , London . |
| 8 | Redeemed by Christ into a renewed virginal state , she has been restored to her original spiritual equality and autonomy . |
| 9 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 10 | She has been seconded to the Civil Service Selection Board , where she is helping to devise the entrance competition for the ‘ fast stream ’ applicants to the Civil Service , Diplomatic Service and Tax Inspectorate . |
| 11 | The square is completed and she has been introduced to Turtle Graphics . |
| 12 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 13 | As children we called her Minna , and she has been known to us and to our friends as Minna ever since . |
| 14 | Japan remains tied to the Western camp partly because the relationship has become integral to her economy and politics over forty years ' association , and partly because it appears to offer the best defence against Soviet aggression and encroachment — a long-standing fear — in Northeast Asia , and the best hope of Japan 's integrity overall in a world where she has been proved to be economically and militarily vulnerable . |
| 15 | Since joining , she has been promoted to her present very senior position . |
| 16 | After the release of stills from The Delinquents movie , she 's been likened to sex-icon Marilyn Monroe and it is a comparison that Kylie does n't wish to deny . |
| 17 | " She 'll part with one of those diamonds she 's been clinging to . " |
| 18 | She 's been compared to everybody from Harriet Wheeler to Liz Cocteau to Madonna and sounds , not like a teenage girl from the wilds of rural Limerick , but like several teenage girls from the wilds of rural Limerick , a heavenly host of exultant angels and three hundred trembling divas singing their battered old hearts out . |
| 19 | Helen 's tearful mother Anne Stephens said today : ‘ Whether you believe it or anyone else believes it my daughter is innocent and she 's been sent to prison for a week for something she has n't done . ’ |
| 20 | So Ruth , she 's been led to one who was able to restore to her all that Elimelech had lost when he left Bethlehem . |
| 21 | ‘ Since her arrest , they 've trumped up charges against her , and she 's been deported to Beirut . ’ |
| 22 | You know , she 's been invited to that wedding in Africa ? |
| 23 | she does n't like where she 's been moved to because of her ill health . |
| 24 | ‘ But then , she 's been topping to us lately . |
| 25 | She 's been writing to the Health Minister , her local MP and Norma Major every day for 2 weeks and plans to continue . |
| 26 | It 's just what she 's been used to in n it ? |
| 27 | She 's been taken to hospital . ’ |
| 28 | She 's been taken to the Seabourne General Hospital . ’ |
| 29 | She 's been brought to Banbury from Newcastle on Tyne where she was arrested . |
| 30 | What 's actually happened is , first of all Tracey 's leaving , she 's been promoted to Area Telesales Manager for Talking Pages so she 's going up to Slough and Michelle will be going for that position , and one other girl and the two others that are on management development , one is now leaving cos she 's like , burnt out , she does n't want to do it any more and the other one 's going into the field so it 's literally just me and this other girl and Michelle , but I 'm obviously just starting , but next time around it 'll just be me again Di , and Dianna is good at her work |