Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 2 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 3 | It is DTI 's intention and remit to continue promoting awareness of Open Systems in the second stage of the programme , and the OSTT Programme is keen to work closely with industry bodies and organisations in order to ensure that information and guidance is widely distributed to their clients when planning or implementing Open Systems strategies . |
| 4 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
| 5 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 6 | Consequently , Foucault remarked ( p 151-152 ) : " Time measured and paid must also be time without impurities or defects ; a time of good quality throughout which the body is constantly applied to its exercise … |
| 7 | By the same token , teaching them is important , but only if it is constantly related to their purpose within religions . |
| 8 | The earl , so Sir Philip informed me , is greatly attached to your boy . |
| 9 | To the end , he is merely listening to his subjects , respecting without judging them and keeping us , as readers , flush against them , indulging in their foibles and sharing their fantasies . |
| 10 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 11 | This makes perfectly good sense , provided that that understanding is organically linked to their studies . |
| 12 | He mentioned he is also involved in a charity exercise for King Hospital — which is obviously linked to his family nearby . |
| 13 | It should be the moment when this Government is finally brought to its senses . |
| 14 | ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . ) |
| 15 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 16 | For example , my father is not related to my mother 's er sister 's children . |
| 17 | When respect is not given to our tears we are denied the relief they can bring . |
| 18 | The Suez event was a parting of many ways ; but justice is not done to their complexity by perceiving it as merely the last spasm of an Empire-orientated Britain , a Britain conditioned to regard ‘ losing out in the Middle East ’ as immediate destruction . |
| 19 | Another common cause of accidents is the inexperienced pilot who buys a glider which is not suited to his skill and experience . |
| 20 | So so the money you 're paying is not going to your son , it 's going to the Treasury is that right ? |
| 21 | The environment is not subjected to their observation , rather their lives are subject to the environment . |
| 22 | He is not conforming to their pattern by ‘ miraculous accident ’ . |
| 23 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 24 | The Association 's welfare support is not confined to its membership but extends also to serving and ex-Air Force non-members and their dependants . |
| 25 | Kemp 's difficulty in defining ‘ science ’ and ‘ art ’ is not confined to his discussion of the earlier period . |
| 26 | But Dicey 's influence is not confined to his method . |
| 27 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |
| 28 | At the present state the historic function of the Soviet Armed Forces is not restricted to their function in defending our Motherland and the other socialist countries . |
| 29 | It is important to appreciate that the contractual notice period is not added to your period of service . |
| 30 | Among adult insects , an appendage is normally attached to its segment between the pleuron of its side and the sternum . |