Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the case of the banks , the assets of these institutions represent paper claims against money which has been lent by them to the public sector , to industry and to persons . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're coming with me to the station , ’ said the Station Master . |
| 4 | ‘ What in the world are you two talking of ? ’ interrupted Rose , whose perplexed gaze had been going from one to the other . |
| 5 | ‘ Miles , your daughter 's spirit is not walking the base , and none of us are going with her to the afterlife . |
| 6 | that ‘ would be inconsistent in any respect with any statement of planning policy adopted by the county planning authority or with any proposals of theirs for development which in either case have been notified by them to the district planning authority ’ . |
| 7 | While it was unquestionably the most important candidate for saving by the nation , if all efforts had been concentrated on it to the exclusion of others the nation would have lost Belton and Calke . |
| 8 | ENO , I am glad to say , is proud to be dismissed by him to the purgatory reserved for this despicable activity , and more than 450,000 people pass through our doors each year to prove it . |
| 9 | The deaths of casuals or sudden or accidental deaths occurring among the inmates had to be reported by him to the Minister within twenty-four hours , and he had ‘ forthwith ’ to inform the master of every case of serious or dangerous illness in the institution . |
| 10 | I think perhaps what 's going to be said to you to the rest of the day erm will actually bring out the key points tha that Hughie was trying , trying to make . |
| 11 | As a matter of practice , moneys paid into the account would be transferred from it to the account in Scotland if not immediately , then certainly within a matter of days , for amalgamation with the general fund . |
| 12 | But erm er it was a a nice sum to be to take with you to the fair . |
| 13 | Sir , I feel that regard should be had by you to the practicalities of the situation as well as to the submissions which I have made , in coming to your decision . |
| 14 | Several doors ran off it , two now open as prisoners were being moved from one to the other . |
| 15 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 16 | The Old Testament bears frequent witness to Israel 's sense of being under attack from her God , and being brought by him to the verge of extinction . |
| 17 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 18 | Erm , so on that , on major services , it is incumbent upon you to consult , erm , and detailed advice is given by me to the Director in relation to each of the , of the er , proposals as to when and how consultation should take place . |
| 19 | If buckets are used to fill the pool , they can be counted and discussions about empty and full will develop as water is transferred from one to the other . |
| 20 | She is going about her business , while he is writing about her to the world , and we are seeing her through his eyes . |
| 21 | In the meantime and excepting certain problem areas which are causing difficulty , it can be said that the Secretary of State 's general policy is to align the new Sheriff Court Districts with the existing Local Government Districts , or a combination of these , unless good reason is shown to him to the contrary as a result of representations made to him or to the appropriate Sheriff Principal . |
| 22 | Having prepared the solution of label , place a drop of it in the manipulation chamber or dish , sufficiently far away from the drop of medium in which the injections will be carried out , to prevent the two coalescing when the injection pipette is passed from one to the other . |
| 23 | To the extent that the Secretary of State thereafter enforces such right in respect of payments made to a Party , other than the Lead Organization , then that Party will promptly refund such amounts to the Lead Organization on receipt of an auditor 's certificate that these amounts have been paid by him to the Secretary of State . |
| 24 | The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 . |
| 25 | This time he was to remain with him to the end . |
| 26 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 27 | On the day of her resignation , the immortal line , ‘ It 's a funny old world , was fed by him to the press and television at his final unattributable lobby briefing at Downing Street . |
| 28 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 29 | Ward was looking from one to the other . |
| 30 | I have in fact si since seeing this sent her a copy of the paper I put to this meeting , erm , having seen that , because I did n't know that she was waiting for it to the commentary with . |