Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A safety valve releases any excess pressure once the air chamber has been filled to capacity . |
| 2 | Work started on integrating the collection into the NLS catalogue in 1987 and approximately 950 titles from the collection have been catalogued to date . |
| 3 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 4 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 5 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 6 | P&O Ferries Ltd — Concessionary rates are given to Group employees and close relatives travelling on the P&O Ferries Orkney and Shetland Services — Aberdeen/Lerwick and Scrabster/Stromness routes . |
| 7 | Essentially the engineer 's role is to monitor and supervise the construction and to ensure that the works are completed to time , cost and colour . |
| 8 | It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe . |
| 9 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 10 | Analysis has been limited to manufacturing , but similar trends were occurring in other sectors , and the process of concentration had features which are of more general significance . |
| 11 | During Debré 's premiership , these councils had been limited to defence issues , Algeria , and African affairs . |
| 12 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 13 | That will be possible because I made the scheme more flexible , so the FHSAs are allowed to use the funds that would previously have been limited to practice premises and ancillary staff to support the continued development and expansion of computerisation of primary health care . |
| 14 | For practical reasons , therefore , damages have been limited to disgorgement of profits . |
| 15 | While little detailed work has been undertaken to date on the nature of these population movements , preliminary research carried out by the investigator in Costa Rica in 1987 with support from the Nuffield Foundation suggests that migration patterns have been strongly differentiated along lines of gender : whereas men have tended to migrate out of Guanacastle , at least on a temporary basis , many women appear to have moved permanently to towns within the region itself . |
| 16 | Similarly , it can be anticipated that a judge investigating a disaster at a football ground in which ninety-five people have been crushed to death will reach out into public policy in putting forward ways of avoiding such tragedies in the future . |
| 17 | The lad on its back , dolled up as King William , had been crushed to death against the wall . |
| 18 | The newspaper Sovietsky Sport reported on July 8 , 1989 , that up to 340 people had been crushed to death in a stand of the Lenin Stadium in Moscow during a football match on Oct. 20 , 1982 . |
| 19 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 20 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 21 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 22 | Now a shocking report has revealed that most of these dogs are mass produced in hundreds of rural puppy factories , conditions have been likened to concentration camps for animals . |
| 23 | Art critics are being blamed for vandalising cast iron sculptures which have been likened to ice-cream cones or seashells . |
| 24 | Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate ; Northern Electric and carbody manufacturer Vickers Pressings have taken on people recently . |
| 25 | The issues are limited to interpretation of the words of the expert clause or other relevant parts of the original contract , or the interpretation of terms of reference or other agreed procedure . |
| 26 | There is only one zip , positioned on the side at either end , so door options are limited to side entry only . |
| 27 | Latter attempts to increase foaming activity have led to a sacrifice in disinfectant capabilities which , while normally good , are limited to gram positive organisms . |
| 28 | Surveyors , accountants and actuaries making valuations are often resolving disputes , but the disputes are limited to valuation issues . |
| 29 | If the requirement for in situ hybridization to chromosomes is to probe for the completely unknown localization of unique sequences in the mouse genome , existing techniques are limited to tissue samples which give a plentiful supply of both slides and mitotic cells . |
| 30 | Their associations and less formal networks are adjusted to centralisation because that is what they have grown up with . |