Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 responsibility allocated to government minister to ensure that Standards and Codes of Practice are kept up to date and new ones issued as necessary .
2 This uncertainty need not prevent the action being run up to setting-down provided the liability issue and special damages to date can be reasonably particularised and the plaintiff 's injuries described .
3 This was Adieu , which John described as ‘ a sadly romantic story of a nymph , whose lover is called away to war ’ .
4 A widespread training programme was carried out to help governors and schools staff to meet their new tasks and obligations .
5 For the last five partial responders interferon therapy was prolonged up to week 38 .
6 In these small manufactories adult labour was confined mainly to supervision and it was nimble-fingered children who , for wages of between 1 and 2s ( 5-10p ) a week , produced the pins .
7 Her white dress had fallen off the shoulder nearest him , her skirt was rucked up to mid-thigh , her hair rippled silver .
8 A young girl with agranulocytosis is coming in to Room C. ’
9 It is not all in weapons ; as much as 100 tonnes of Russian HEU is used simply to power ships and submarines .
10 From here the seashore is followed on to Cat Nab .
11 ‘ I 'm glad that child 's coming here to dinner on Sunday , ’ Eddie Hogan said .
12 If the private sector is to contribute seriously to debt counselling then it is likely to want to know how many CAB clients adhere to their repayment schedules and how many emerge better able to cope and more confident after counselling .
13 Nevertheless , some preliminary cobbing could well have been done as the ore was brought out to grass .
14 ‘ Mainly cooks and cripples , ’ he said cheerfully , and the family hoped that this would mean that he stayed in England , but when he returned to London after his leave the battalion was made up to strength and moved to Howick in Scotland .
15 Reference was made earlier to customer needs and wants .
16 Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work .
17 The Queen was escorted on to Platform One at London 's Paddington station and boarded a reserved carriage of the 10.20am train to Oxford without the formality of getting a ticket .
18 Once more a misogyny produced internally to and largely by hetero/sexual difference is projected on to homosexuality .
19 The only way to town is come up to way
20 Curbishley said : ‘ My main aim is to get back to fitness and I did n't want to try too much too quickly .
21 A marked theme is selected specifically to foreground a particular element as the topic of the clause or its point of departure .
22 The evening is given over to mission experience through film or slides , then night prayer followed by a social evening .
23 Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture .
24 My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages .
25 After a few sessions you will know which weights to use , but you should make sure that the routine is kept up to date .
26 Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards .
27 This point was rapidly settled when folic acid was shown not to check but to accelerate the development of certain leukaemias .
28 On this occasion Crabb was carrying out experiments in which the Admiralty had a peripheral interest , but it would not be in the national interest to detail them , and unfortunately he drowned and his body was swept out to sea .
29 In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder .
30 Do not be concerned that a part of your day is given up to relaxation and leisure .
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