Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ As long as the patients are volunteers and the risks are explained to them before the operation , I can see no objection myself . ’ |
| 3 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 4 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |
| 5 | Trudgill writes : speakers are not capable of acquiring the correct underlying phonological distinction unless they are exposed to it from the very beginning , before they themselves have even begun to speak . |
| 6 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 7 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 8 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 9 | Their powers are granted to them by the state and the courts ensure through the ultra vires or jurisdictional principle that they do not act outside their powers . |
| 10 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |
| 11 | DB2 is a relational DBMS , that is data structures are presented to it in the form of tables ; IMS views the data structures in terms of hierarchies ; and IDMS in terms of networks . |
| 12 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 13 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 14 | If you 're speaking to someone on the phone and you want to forward that phone call to somebody else ? |
| 15 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 16 | You do it all the time , they 're conditioned to it in the end . |
| 17 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 18 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 19 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 20 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 21 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 22 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 23 | My letters to Herta are brought to me by the valet . |
| 24 | I 'm , I 'm talking to him about the planned s filing system as well , which is |
| 25 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 26 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 27 | A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 28 | ‘ A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 29 | It also need have no privileges , since those required are passed to it by the initiator ( ie. the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 30 | Most of your study materials are sent to you through the post . |