Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 2 | A change in Eisenhower 's thinking on the USSR can perhaps be traced back to the visit by Churchill and Eden at the end of June 1954 . |
| 3 | Every militiaman in Lebanon should perhaps be taken up to the Dog River to see these memorials to pride and power . |
| 4 | Dr Susan Blackmore , of the Brain and Perception Laboratory of the University of Bristol , suggests that a group of babies be trained to use a ‘ baby-operated tape player ’ invented by Tom Troscianko and herself , which will shortly be released on to the market . |
| 5 | Emphasis is put on the fact that learned skills such as shorthand are never forgotten and can soon be brought back to the standard required . |
| 6 | The ultimate origin of our seven-day week and the restrictions for long imposed on Sunday activities can thus be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 7 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 8 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 9 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 10 | The simple translation is , first , that the 750m people in the countryside , including 90m who work in what amount to private factories , can not be sent back to the commune , however much China 's old-guard ideologues might wish . |
| 11 | It could not be sent back to the original commission which was dominated by Lateran supporters , so a neatly balanced new one had to be constituted with Ottaviani and Bea as joint chairmen . |
| 12 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 13 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 14 | This is a confidential document and considerable care is taken to ensure that it can not be related back to the company in question , although there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired results . |
| 15 | CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or might not be turned over to the Russians and Partisans to be shot . |
| 16 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 17 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 18 | 3 ) The ball must not be passed back to the goalkeeper from outside the penalty area . |
| 19 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 20 | The task can not be handed over to the superstar preacher and those with ‘ the gift of persuasive oratory ’ . |
| 21 | " CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point , but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or who might not be handed over to the Russians or Partisans to be shot . " |
| 22 | They have to reveal all , and if something goes wrong how are they to know that all that information will not be handed back to the secret police from whom they are trying to escape by seeking asylum ? |
| 23 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 24 | As always with cohort measures , the data can not be taken up to the present day without a considerable element of projection ( broken line ) of the generation rate . |
| 25 | ‘ And the mortgagee having sworn he paid and expended above £120 in defending his mortgage at law , although he had but £60 costs allowed him there … shall not be held down to the taxation at law , but shall against the account be allowed all he laid out , or expended . |
| 26 | On an application by B. to be joined as a party and for an order that the money in court should not be paid out to the solicitors for the interim government : — |
| 27 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 28 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |
| 29 | In a normal cat , ears flattened to this degree would already be twisted round to the rear . |
| 30 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |