Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT THE end of Mass , when the children had been dismissed to their schooling with Brother Paul , and only the choir monks were left as awed witnesses , Abbot Radulfus offered a brief and practical prayer for divine guidance , and approached Saint Winifred 's altar . |
| 2 | I mean , the sensible thing would have been to go to her room , would n't it ? |
| 3 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 4 | The girls are placed to their mother 's left against the background of the enclosed garden , the boys to their father 's right . |
| 5 | So this is what the great glass eye thinks may have been leaked to our enemies — an inquiry into the nature of happiness . |
| 6 | ‘ You are to go to your Uncle Philip . ’ |
| 7 | Franklin Hayman 's thin , wiry body was overshadowed by the large desk , even though he was seated on a swivel chair which had been adjusted to its maximum height . |
| 8 | In the case where members of such type of partnership are solely and exclusively active and/ or retired employees of a corporation , the corporation may guarantee the liabilities of it and the partnership may be formed without any financial contribution by its members , and the members ' liabilities are limited to their financial contribution ( if any ) plus their gross income during the calendar year in which the liability came into being . |
| 9 | Croatia 's acceptance follows on from the recent announcement that the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania has been reinstated to their former status as full members , a status that they enjoyed prior to the outbreak of the second world war . |
| 10 | At a prompt date , a member 's matching open contracts for that date ( where he has not indicated an intention to make or take delivery of metal ) are automatically settled against one another by LCH and the resulting price differences are posted to his account . |
| 11 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 12 | Some parents need help in identifying how they are reacting to their child and so professional observation of their interaction may be required . |
| 13 | A resounding thumbs up has been given to our police officers by staff at AEA and British Nuclear Fuels following a detailed customer opinion survey . |
| 14 | This was made very clear to me early in my fieldwork when I offended a neighbour by trying to make explicit return of food that had been given to my wife and me . |
| 15 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 16 | Sir Nicholas Cayzer , whose baronetcy had been given to his father by Lloyd George , was raised to the peerage by Margaret Thatcher in 1982 . |
| 17 | Much of the responsibility for running our community and educational programmes has now been devolved to our business and operating sites . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ The matter has been referred to my insurers who will contact the company 's previous insurers . ’ |
| 19 | His Sunday duties are arranged to his disadvantage , and the example of one or two others , is not , likely to be lost on his brother officers at the station . |
| 20 | While all things else are gathering to their homes , |
| 21 | Chamonix locals are sticking to their prediction of a heavy winter . |
| 22 | Oxford are sticking to their old blades and the experts reckon they 'll be sharp enough to win on Saturday . |
| 23 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 24 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 25 | She had driven over to him after the metamorphosis had been completed to her satisfaction — not just the punk hair-do , short spiky , crimson-dyed and outrageous — and the make-up , orange domino mask and a curve of ochre on the cheeks — but clothes , too , tight , tarty , as far removed from the Victorian image as possible . |
| 26 | All have been exposed to his scarifying eye and his audacious judgments ; he has projected on all his volatile wit and a searching wisdom . |
| 27 | It was true , they thought , still looking at him : he was a married man who went homo-ing about , who had been exposed to his wife when Timothy Gedge was drunk . |
| 28 | So there 's often a contradiction as to whether programmes are addressed to their actual or potential audiences or to a hypothetical audience , which in current affairs and news broadcasts is usually assumed to be a male viewer . |
| 29 | If they are addressed to your job or you personally , always reply personally , if necessary with an immediate acknowledgement saying that you will investigate . |
| 30 | Being only two miles away , their success has meant that many fair-weather ‘ Stiffs ’ supporters have been attracted to their games and in consequence our gate receipts have suffered . |