Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [am/are] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It concluded that , ‘ The speed with which cases are brought to trial is in our view determined almost entirely by the volume of business and the resources available to deal with it . ’ |
| 2 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 3 | Many studies have correlated features of social organizations with ecology and shown that the strategies of their members are adapted to habitat conditions , often in very elaborate ways . |
| 4 | But , what , which ones are going to heaven ? |
| 5 | Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps , along with bureaucrats doing two weeks ' hard labour . |
| 6 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 7 | his abilities are known to management and team alike and he is a man refreshed . |
| 8 | As we have seen so far , the results from pattern recognition are far from perfect , and no matter what improvements are made to recognition , it is never going to reach 100% accuracy . |
| 9 | The real advantage of all this is that if your fingers are trained to type /FS in order to save a file , the same command will still work in 1-2-3 for Windows . |
| 10 | Our proposals are confined to attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 11 | Why is it , then , that so many of our constituents are coming to advice surgeries about bills that they can not afford to pay ? |
| 12 | There is another area in which our ways are beginning to part and that is weekly journalism — current affairs . |
| 13 | It 's not a big deal in the scheme of things but you get an awful lot of hassle when all your mates are going to university , or start bringing home the bacon . |