Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 2 | I AM writing this foreword to the 1993 Year Book on my very first evening in the diocese after the announcement of my appointment yesterday . |
| 3 | I am copying this letter to Shop Stewards within the Community Charge Registration Office and Exchequer Division in order that they can make appropriate arrangements to be represented with yourself . |
| 4 | So she knows she may hear from you I am copying this letter to . |
| 5 | I am dictating this letter to the Matron of the Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 6 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 7 | I 'm taking this matter to the highest authority . ’ |
| 8 | You 'll have a chance to come back on whether we have got the wrong impression on that , I mean I recall Mr Heselton 's quite clearly , but let me pursue that at a stage further if if we take that as our impression of what you have said collectively , and you are asked to make provision for nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , again collectively in the Greater York area , and I 'm addressing this question to the districts , what provision would you make in your districts of your district figure in the Greater York area ? |
| 9 | The permission of procedure , yes I 'm offering this service to you , that was good . |
| 10 | Erm I 'm asking this question to e satisfy myself that these changes and reduction in costs are not the result of political expediency as opposed to er a genuine assessment of what the risk in the change environment is likely to be . |
| 11 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Students at the University are eligible to apply for sports bursaries which are awarded each year to those students who have already shown that they have exceptional sporting ability and who wish to achieve further excellence . |
| 13 | He contends that today the dynamism which is bringing new life to the English language is coming from the periphery , not the centre . |
| 14 | I said I think somebody 's saying some untruth to me . |
| 15 | The immediate impetus for the agreement was the need to relax the blockade , which was causing immense hardship to the island 's 120,000 population and which , according to some estimates , had resulted in the deaths of as many as 3,000 people . |
| 16 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 17 | And they 're fielding 12 candidates across our region who are carrying that message to the voters . |
| 18 | You are damaging the Labour Party , you are jeopardizing any opposition to this , this present Government , you 're jeopardizing the future survival of the Labour Party . |
| 19 | If you 're to do any service to Harry , you must not appear in this . |
| 20 | However houseproud you are , you 're playing unknowing host to the House Dust Mite . |
| 21 | ‘ Does this mean you 're giving more consideration to strangers than to me ? ’ |
| 22 | As units of 6 Armoured Division advanced into eastern Carinthia they encountered Bulgarian units of Tolbukhin 's army group , who were delegating local administration to the Yugoslavs . |
| 23 | The journalists , who were allowed free access to the site and were able to file reports without censorship , found no evidence of a military presence within the bunker which had been constructed as a civilian shelter during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 24 | These dynamic people , including Mary Kelly , Frances Mackenzie , L. du Garde Peach , Leo Baker , Robert Newton and Alfred Willett-Whittacker were not merely enthusiastic practitioners , they were far-sighted educators who were giving high status to amateur theatre . |
| 25 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 26 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 27 | She was said last night to be out of intensive care and making progress . |
| 28 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 29 | In 1894 she was appointed assistant commissioner to the royal commission on secondary education under James ( later Viscount ) Bryce [ q.v. ] to investigate girls ' education in Devon . |
| 30 | As the taxi sped them into Rome , Nora had no chance to look at the view ; she was kept busy listening to Louise , who was giving her assessment of the situation . |