Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central issue which underlies the continuing pattern of human rights violations is that members of the armed forces are rarely brought to justice for the crimes they commit and therefore act with impunity . |
| 2 | These perceptions , far from being simple or accidental , are intimately related to issues of authority and control and the need to concentrate power in the hands of certain groups of people . |
| 3 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 4 | I am slowly getting to grips with the laptop , but sadly , on 13th , lost not only the biggest filling in my teeth but also twenty pages of type this size on paper this size . |
| 5 | Those speakers whose ties are weakest are those who approximate least closely to vernacular norms , and are most exposed to pressures for change originating from outside the network . |
| 6 | These algorithms are most suited to tasks with small branching ratios and reversible operators , and with simple states so that the algorithm can remember several states at a time . |
| 7 | General practitioners have always had to manage and plan their businesses and are constantly adapting to changes in medical care . |
| 8 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 9 | The Government generally take the view that matters of pay and hours are better left to negotiation between employers and employees , or by their representatives , and that they should certainly not be dealt with in legislation or in codes of practice provided for in statute . |
| 10 | In the cutical-chitin chains are apparently joined to proteins by covalent linkages involving aspartic acid and histidine ( Rudall , 1963 ) . |
| 11 | According to reliable sources in the Northern Ireland Prison Service , weapons are only issued to officers from the armoury after careful consideration of a written request . |
| 12 | After many years and three gardens , the optimism is going well ; I still battle with my impatience , but I am finally coming to grips with giving the essentials of sustenance to the garden . |
| 13 | These are normally presented to Parliament in the previous December , along with the winter supplementary estimates for the previous year . |
| 14 | The larger companies are already coming to terms with the new regulations . |
| 15 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 16 | It 's interesting though , that after all this aggravation , the fact that er the Prime Minister nearly lost his job , er there was nearly another election erm there 's going to be no celebrations , no fireworks , no balloons , no huge dinners on Monday we 're just going to sort of peter into the Maastricht treaty coming into effect . |
| 17 | They 're still coming to terms with it . |
| 18 | so they 're probably trying to muscle into the er that niche you see , but er brown bottle you find the critics ? |
| 19 | That 's our problem , that , that 's what we 're really going to home on first of all . |
| 20 | They 're really going to town on these pavements are n't they ? |
| 21 | I think er it 's got to be er linked certainly to the rate of inflation , er and in some way linked to the way that the fire service er has their pay formula , and they 're actually linked to 25% of the top 25% of schooled manual workers , er we 'd be looking at some sort of deal like that , or if it was n't er tied up with percentage rates I think we need , definitely need an independent pay review body for the ambulance service . |
| 22 | The scents are possibly modified to pheromones in mating , for bees carrying scent apparently attract other males , so that about five display together whereupon the female chooses her mate . |
| 23 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |
| 24 | Several types of instrument can be used for this type of test , and these are usually limited to measurements on rigid polymers or rubbers . |
| 25 | Disputes about the price and quality of metals are usually referred to arbitrators under the rules of the London Metal Exchange : for commodity arbitrations , see 15.6.5 . |
| 26 | Such problems are usually confined to ponds in which there is little or no water movement , and generally occur at night . |
| 27 | These movements are directly converted to movements of the screen cursor , or pointer as it is ten called . |
| 28 | Control theory , or control of consumption theory , claims that levels of alcohol abuse are directly related to levels of alcohol consumption in any society . |
| 29 | Women are more attracted to men with clean-cut good looks than their hairier counterparts . |
| 30 | Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain , but the blockbuster moves — 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91 , and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently — are probably over for the immediate future . |