Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders , just their cobwebs . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 3 | I 'm not given to prudery , but at the thought of some poor woman in the Clerical Grade being allowed to read this … this … whatever it is , I feel a flush of pure shame inside my beard . |
| 4 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 5 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |
| 6 | I was not sent to school . |
| 7 | I was not born to joy |
| 8 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 9 | I was once introduced to Sir somebody , David Webb I think , who was in charge of the Opera House . |
| 10 | Both old age and disability are dimensions of experience which are fundamentally linked to gender ( Morris , 1991 ) . |
| 11 | The right to die and the right to help someone to die are surely matters which are best left to discretion and commonsense . |
| 12 | The true place of inflation in calculating the cost of credit is as part of a triangle which has as its other sides the interest to be gained from instalment savings and the interest to be paid for instalment credit — both of which are broadly related to inflation rates anyway . |
| 13 | These concerns have been further stimulated by the change in public attitudes to safety and environmental issues , many of which are closely linked to energy . |
| 14 | On the other hand , very few checklists have been systematically evaluated in relation to the formal criteria which are normally applied to language tests ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 15 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |
| 16 | The Dog and Gun is at a junction of narrow country roads which are not closed to traffic , so chaos often results . |
| 17 | An hour is , e.g. divided into sixty minutes , the second into sixty parts and so on ; at last after ten or more successive divisions by sixty , time-elements are obtained which are not subjected to division , and in fact are indivisible . ’ |
| 18 | The state is simply the agency which buttresses and consolidates the rules and institutions of exclusion , which are not confined to class and educational credentials , but in particular societies may also include racial , religious , ethnic , and gender-based forms of exploitation . |
| 19 | Finally , LIFESPAN ABLE will enter all modules which are already known to LIFESPAN and are on active DCs . |
| 20 | This applies particularly when the bricks come from Ryarsh 's three complementary ranges — Sandlime , Flintlime , and the Village range , which are generally manufactured to Class 3 strength , which means they are load-bearing . |
| 21 | They are all illnesses which are directly related to poverty and to the consequent lack of education concerning health care . |
| 22 | Two programs which are virtually guaranteed to work are Fontasy and Fleet Street Editor which is the same as Clickart Personal Publisher to all intents and purposes . |
| 23 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 24 | They referred to the ‘ traditional restraint , from which all other branches of inquiry have long been emancipated ’ : ecclesiastical interests and party predilections , which meant that theology ‘ fails to receive the intellectual respect and confidence which are readily accorded to learning and research in any other field ’ . |
| 25 | In one pathway , receptors are coupled through G proteins to stimulate PLC- β , whereas the other pathway depends upon tyrosine kinase-linked receptors which are specifically coupled to PLC- γ . |
| 26 | In 1968 Gow and Page followed up their first volume by bringing out Hellenistic Epigrams : the Garland of Philip , again in two volumes ; this time Gow was primarily responsible for the 650 epigrams which were either attributed to Antipater of Thessalonica or left over as being either his work or that of Antipater of Sidon . |
| 27 | Handicap is defined in terms of symptoms which were traditionally attributed to hearing loss . |
| 28 | The illustration shows the head and trunk of a young boy wearing a number of bracelets and many beads , most of which were probably attached to clothing . |
| 29 | I found that it was vital to keep them under water when moving them after I had experienced problems with eggs which were accidentally exposed to air which probably dried them out . |
| 30 | The political challenge for those on the left is how to meet this self-assertiveness , which is clearly linked to self-fulfilment , while at the same time building support for policies that favour those on low incomes and the underclass . |