Example sentences of "in [noun prp] be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Purified VCAM-1 ( 35ng per well ) , BSA-heparin conjugates ( 20ng per well ; from D. Roberts ) and/or control BSA in PBS were applied to plastic plates at 4°C overnight and the plastic binding sites subsequently blocked with BSA .
2 In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week .
3 The duplication of titles amongst the different types of institution studied in Sheffield was found to be very low , and in view of the fact that cooperative acquisition is not simple to introduce and that central purchasing agencies tend to delay orders , the authors recommended against it .
4 Most of their churches in Germany are affiliated to the RSCM , and some use its Choristers ' Training Scheme .
5 The Kestrels breeding in Sussex are thought to be resident , but winter status needs further and more exact investigation ; some changes may have occurred since 1938 .
6 Farmers in Ovamboland were reported to be unable to plant crops and to be facing severe stock losses .
7 Being the god of lightning his appearance resulted in Semele being charred to ashes , so Zeus plucked the infant from her remains and sewed it up in his own thigh .
8 Mundesley in Norfolk was intended to be a new resort town in 1900 but never succeeded .
9 It will be recalled from the previous chapter , that other than in Norwich the educational activities of the WEA in Norfolk were confined to John Newlove 's courses in the north of the county at Dereham , Melton Constable , Wells and King 's Lynn .
10 However , shortly afterwards , curio-sellers in Kano were seen to be selling photographs of the man , his wives and followers , and of some of the incidents that had taken place in December .
11 The propaganda campaign against the deployment of Euromissiles was lost , despite considerable public opposition in the countries concerned ; and the war in Afghanistan was brought to an end , because of its cost as well as unpopularity , on terms that offered no guarantee the Najibullah government would survive or that external intervention in its affairs would cease ( it finally collapsed in 1992 ) .
12 I know playing Belgium in Brussels is going to be hard but we 've been here before and drawn . ’
13 Two large contracts in Kuwait were awarded to our joint venture company and some 1,000 people are now employed there providing mechanical maintenance services on Kuwait Oil Company 's oil fields .
14 A mutilated body found in Portugal is believed to be that of a man missing from his home in Oxfordshire for a month .
15 The risk of ethnic conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina was considered to be too great for that republic to qualify for EC recognition .
16 The gene defective in XLA was localized to a 2-cM interval in Xq21.3-Xq22 ( R. Lovering et al. , manuscript in preparation ) which is shown on the genetic map .
17 On 27 August 1991 a proposal by Congressman Amaral Netto to reintroduce the death penalty in Brazil was returned to the Constitution and Justice Commission for further study following serious questions by parliamentarians regarding its constitutionality .
18 A girl he had come to admire in Sumatra was brought to Java to be his third wife after he divorced Inggit .
19 The cottage we had rented in Dorset was attached to a farm , and the farmer had four sons , the youngest of whom was about my age .
20 Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago .
21 Thus , from 1930–31 , the District 's providing powers in Bedfordshire were limited to urban areas and the Cambridge Board assumed Chapter III powers in those rural areas which had been included in Shearman 's territory between 1927–30 .
22 In 1721 , when the minister of Inchinnan in Renfrewshire was named to the chair of church history in the University of Edinburgh , thus creating a vacancy for a minister , the right of presentation belonged to the Duke of Montrose .
23 My researches into Tristram 's time in Spain were geared to the effect it had on his poetry .
24 Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics .
25 Simply this that any government of any colour , at any level , central or local and any organization charged with the responsibility of meeting the needs of elderly people which proceeds on the tacit assumption or makes the blatant assertion that there is no longer any poverty in Scotland is requiring to be contradicted because it is not true .
26 Currently the Labour Party in Scotland is committed to no nuclear weapons on our soil , but shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown has given a firm commitment to Rosyth Dockyard for the refitting of Trident submarines .
27 In England and Wales they 'll have to pay up to double the Poll Tax on any empty farm cottages they own , although farmers in Scotland are going to be exempt from this .
28 Copies of module descriptors and a French translation of the SCOTVEC booklet , Setting the standard in Scotland were sent to La Charente in advance to aid preparation .
29 Representatives from every college in Scotland were invited to the latter .
30 Should a fossil reptile found in Scotland be allowed to be sold to Germany ?
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