Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is contracting out to private sector firms the production of goods and services which the state provides free or at subsidized prices to consumers . |
| 2 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
| 3 | The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use . |
| 4 | The foreground is given over to common land , undulating , uncultivated , with clumps of fern and whin , gorse and bramble . |
| 5 | Further hospital clinic follow up is arranged only in cases of particular need ; otherwise the patient is discharged back to prompted community care . |
| 6 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 7 | The orchestra is certainly very accomplished and is shown off to good advantage in quite a big bold and well-detailed recording made at St John 's , Smith Square . |
| 8 | Now I believe it 's the duty of the G M B and the trade union movement to first publicize the problem then we need a campaign and a strategy to avoid it , and that is going back to decent pension funds . |
| 9 | He 's got ta miles and miles back next week and then he 's going back to following week to be lift driver . |
| 10 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 11 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 12 | My objective is to move on to fresh ground and not have to return to this particular patch . |
| 13 | [ the mark-up ] is kept down to modest size by the existence of many independent firms within the corporate sector ; by the availability , elsewhere in the corporate sector , of reasonably close substitutes for the products of any one firm ; and by the perennial threat of new entry into any field in which the monopoly mark-up is large . |
| 14 | It is then Pip falls ill and is nursed back to good health by the good-natured health . |