Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 32 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 33 | Moreover , the test applies to all unusual or unreasonable terms , and is not limited to exclusion and limitation clauses . |
| 34 | If the selling shareholder is a corporation , the Revenue takes the view that , because the distribution element is franked investment income and is not charged to corporation tax in the company 's hands , the full amount of the sale price should be brought into account in the company 's computation of chargeable gains . |
| 35 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 36 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 37 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 38 | Infrequently , a refractory pouchitis ( RP ) presents with certain clinical , endoscopic , and pathological features resembling Crohn 's disease and is often ascribed to misdiagnosis of the initial colitis . |
| 39 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 40 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 41 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 42 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 43 | Jazz gave little away , and was not given to complaint . |
| 44 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 45 | Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos . |
| 46 | He began banging his head against the wall , vomiting up his food , lost a great deal of weight and was eventually taken to hospital . |
| 47 | She had an unhappy childhood in Weston-super-Mare , and was briefly sent to boarding-school in Devizes at the age of eight . |
| 48 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 49 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 50 | Hammond changed his status from professional to amateur partly through taking a directorship of a tyre company in 1938 — he liked to drive fast cars — and was then selected to captain England . |
| 51 | He did his basic training at Warrington and was then posted to officer training school at Grantham . |
| 52 | JUDITH CANNON has recently been promoted to operations director public sector , a new senior position that reflects the continued growth of our public sector division , which caters for schools and hospitals across the UK , Judith joined CCG in 1984 as senior area manager for the Earling schools and social service contract , and was then promoted to business development manager and latterly general manager . |
| 53 | She was looking forward to getting a flat of her own and was about to go to court in an attempt to regain custody of her daughter . |
| 54 | Unresolved , I clung to the nub of " I " , perhaps sensing that I needed " I " if was ever to hurtle to freedom . |
| 55 | All penguins are flightless but are perfectly adapted to life in water and to withstanding cold . |
| 56 | They were treated by ambulancemen after suffering the effects of smoke but were not taken to hospital . |
| 57 | 88Open test technology verifies that systems and applications conform to source , binary and object standards , but is currently confined to software for Motorola 88000-based systems . |
| 58 | The Tudeh Party appears initially to have decided to try to work within the new system , but was later subjected to pressure , especially in 1984 . |
| 59 | Charles I 's commission on exacted fees and innovated offices was investigating Mynne and the Hanaper ( in effect the treasury of the Great Seal ) in 1630 ; he got off then but was finally brought to trial for extortion in 1634 . |
| 60 | If a person died of coronary heart disease but was never admitted to hospital we used the date of death as the incidence date . |