Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun sg] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means that it 's practically impossible for a landowner to enforce restrictions unless you 're setting fire to his house or driving a JCB over his grouse moor . |
| 2 | Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports . |
| 3 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 4 | We have been promised access to our health records and waiting lists which are no longer than 18 months . |
| 5 | We have been promised access to our health records and waiting lists which are no longer than 18 months . |
| 6 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 7 | If you are divided among yourselves you are doing harm to your country . |
| 8 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 9 | In framing the loan agreement both the government and the Bank had formally agreed that high-powered international management of the meat plants and ranches was necessary to success , that pastoral cattle keepers should be given title to their land ( an innovation ) , and that the meat price should be raised , thus restraining urban demand . |
| 10 | You too will soon be recommending Omega to your friends . |
| 11 | Mansell flies back to Britain from his Florida home this week for intensive testing of the new Renault V10 engine , which the team hope will be adding impetus to their championship drive by the time they reach Barcelona . |
| 12 | The woman who exploited and ruined my brother will never be appointed guardian to my sister ! ’ |
| 13 | Their silence on the issue stems from ignorance of the inner man and his family , and a fear that anyone speaking out of turn would be showing disloyalty to their captain . |
| 14 | I wo n't be held hostage to your quarrel with Jeff . ’ |
| 15 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 16 | He smiled at her and said , ‘ Buenos dias , señorita , ’ as blithely as if he were bringing breakfast to her room in a Costa del Sol hotel . |
| 17 | At least thirty minutes would have to be allocated to each child , if they were to do justice to their abilities , and this meant about fifteen hours for a class of thirty . |
| 18 | Noting that Japanese businesses were losing ground to their US rivals , Li Peng commented that sanctions had brought " some difficulties " to China but had also harmed those who had imposed them . |
| 19 | They were showing loyalty to their boss by drinking there . |
| 20 | For several weeks we were denied access to our grandson . |
| 21 | Training following appointment is also evidently not universal , for Goacher et al ( 1988 ) recorded that only 28 per cent of LEAs were offering training to their assistants in order to implement the 1981 Education Act . |
| 22 | The last time she had been here had been to say good-bye to her great-aunt before she went off to America . |
| 23 | Europe , of course , is something of a captive market ; not only is ESA funded by 13 European member-states but ESA 's procurement policy has been to award contracts in proportion to a country 's given contribution to its budget . |
| 24 | The Stasi headquarters in Berlin were reoccupied on Sept. 4 by New Forum supporters demanding that individuals be given access to their files ( which were said to have been held on 4,000,000 East Germans and 2,000,000 West Germans ) . |
| 25 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 26 | Where the public documentation indicates that the firm is giving advice to its client , careful consideration should be given as to how that advice is delivered . |
| 27 | In it , the young Anglo- Asian hero , Karim , engages in some heavy petting with a white male school friend , then takes a breather in the garden , where his Asian father is making love to his friend 's single- breasted mother ( cancer has claimed the other breast ) . |
| 28 | An excellent strategy is to convey understanding to your child or teenager by bearing in mind the two-way nature of good communication between adults . |
| 29 | Daphne 's response to this remembrance is to pledge obedience to her mother 's memory by forgetting Cynthio and embracing her sister shepherdesses . |
| 30 | Two days before Arrese 's Valladolid speech , France announced that it was to grant independence to its protectorate in Morocco . |