Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 2 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 3 | A third are down to the thermal imaging capability . |
| 4 | All that has long since changed and , while talent can still win the day , both fields are down to the hard graft of making money . |
| 5 | I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for |
| 6 | Football , and Oxford United are through to the second round of the Coca-Cola cup . |
| 7 | Four of our sides are through to the second round … and Hereford have a chance to make a name for themselves here … first division teams do n't play until the third round … |
| 8 | Henley rowers Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent are through to the coxless pairs finals in the Olympics . |
| 9 | In the Famous Crouse Coronation Foursomes Medal , Mrs. S. Meredith and Mrs. B. Halsey are through to the next round . |
| 10 | Swindon Town are through to the third round of the Coca Cola Cup after a nine-two aggregate win over Torquay … and tonight Oxford United will be trying to join them but they 've got to win at Aston Villa … |
| 11 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 12 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |
| 13 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 14 | Today we 're off to the charming isle of St Lucia where our winner and a friend will enjoy seven nights at the Le Sport Hotel , full board in a private air-conditioned room . |
| 15 | We 're back to the normal agenda , item eight on page thirty-six . |
| 16 | Now they 're back to the good weather again . |
| 17 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 18 | And so we 're back to the old problem . ’ |
| 19 | We 're back to the whole problem |
| 20 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 21 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
| 22 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
| 23 | ‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better . |
| 24 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 25 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 26 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 27 | He thrust a mess tin full of steak and kidney into my hand , and with a scowl on his face he remarked , ‘ After this lot , Piper , we are back to the usual shit , unless something special turns up , like cooks and normal rations ! ’ |
| 28 | THE Harvest Ministers are back to the live front with two major gigs in the coming weeks . |
| 29 | We are back to the three act drama with which we began . |
| 30 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |