Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garden centre managers need to know that wildflower seeds have to be grown from native stock ; that highly ornate ‘ mock-Tudor ’ nest-boxes put nestlings ' lives at risk by attracting predators ; that the natural balance of a pond is not best served by chemical algicides ; that salted peanuts are a killer for birds ; that eco-friendly insecticides are a contradiction in terms ; and that wildflowers and buddleias are little help to wildlife if they 're grown in peat-based compost . |
| 2 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 3 | This appealed to them as their grocery listing had been long ticked to exhaustion and their husbands were all unsympathetic pathetics . |
| 4 | More recently the rapid increase in the wealth of the Japanese , their greater consumption of diamonds and the fact that they have never been so attached to gold as the peoples of the west have led to a sharp increase in their use of platinum for jewellery . |
| 5 | Head-injured patients are normally admitted to hospital and kept there until it is certain that they are fully fit to return home . |
| 6 | The right to die and the right to help someone to die are surely matters which are best left to discretion and commonsense . |
| 7 | All these systems are largely restricted to text or numeric data . |
| 8 | Finally , LIFESPAN ABLE will enter all modules which are already known to LIFESPAN and are on active DCs . |
| 9 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 10 | Such problems are usually related to grief and concern about loss of femininity and a feeling of disfigurement . |
| 11 | They are all illnesses which are directly related to poverty and to the consequent lack of education concerning health care . |
| 12 | SOME families are more given to kissing than others ; one sees them at railway stations kissing a whole carriage-full of friends as they prepare to say goodbye . |
| 13 | Those who depend solely on their licensed dealers to find them another Polly Peck ( probably the most spectacular penny share success ever ) are probably doomed to disappointment If they are lucky , they will be the blind led by the blind . |
| 14 | If the White Welsh is crossed to black or red animals and the offspring are also crossed to black or red , the dark extreme of the colour-pointed cline becomes evident and the coats are colour-sided or linebacked . |
| 15 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 16 | Note that the package name must be already known to LIFESPAN and you must be its manager . |
| 17 | He understands and would be totally committed to tourism if he got into office . ’ |
| 18 | This means that total withdrawals will be directly related to income and when plotted against income on a graph will be an upward-sloping line with a slope equal to the sum of the marginal propensity to save and the marginal propensity to import . |
| 19 | However , the assumption that productivity must be directly related to biomass or chlorophyll is a fallacy . |
| 20 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 21 | I could be trapped here at the top of the tower and be either forced to jump or killed like a rat trapped in a barn . |
| 22 | With all these agents serum concentrations have been putatively related to toxicity or clinical efficacy or there are inconsistencies between the dosage and serum concentrations . |
| 23 | They referred to the ‘ traditional restraint , from which all other branches of inquiry have long been emancipated ’ : ecclesiastical interests and party predilections , which meant that theology ‘ fails to receive the intellectual respect and confidence which are readily accorded to learning and research in any other field ’ . |
| 24 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 25 | A large number of boys , particularly at the foreclosure stage , are initially attracted to science but there is a drift away throughout later adolescence as they undergo some crisis . |
| 26 | These patients were randomly assigned to placebo or captopril ( SAVE ) or enalapril ( SOLVD prevention ) . |
| 27 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 28 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 29 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |
| 30 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |