Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 2 | Despite a statement by Selwyn Lloyd , the Foreign Secretary , in the House of Commons on 23rd July that there was ‘ no question of large-scale operations by British troops on the ground ’ , Army units had to be flown up to the Oman from Kenya to support the Sultan 's armed forces in crushing the rebellion . |
| 3 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 4 | She did n't want to be escorted back to the apartment by him . |
| 5 | As for the civil service , it had to be cut down to the lowest level necessary . |
| 6 | Blood sugar needs to be kept up to the correct level in order to allow both body and mind to function correctly , and the body is very clever at informing us of its requirements . |
| 7 | Emma allowed herself to be led over to the sofa . |
| 8 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 9 | Marr ( 1982 ) describes many processes that have yet to be mapped on to the nervous system . |
| 10 | As Francis Bacon , the patron saint of the scientific method , wrote four centuries ago , ‘ The Universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of our understanding — rather the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the Universe as it is discovered . ’ |
| 11 | A command which causes lines of the current program to be listed out to the screen with the automatic formatting options specified by LISTO . |
| 12 | Continuity and progression have to be built in to the programme and there has to be scope for differentiation and extension . |
| 13 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 14 | It also fulfils a role as a vehicle for enabling Scottish views to be channelled back to the decision makers in Europe . |
| 15 | Do not turn up with an extra child to be fitted in to the same appointment . |
| 16 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 17 | Kate had been half aware that the TV cameras were around , but she 'd hardly expected their wedding to be tacked on to the end of the nine o'clock news . |
| 18 | It seemed to be given up to the birds and their morning hymns … |
| 19 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 20 | Sitting next to Alison 's fiance , Gordon Healis , Mr Manwaring said : ‘ The streets have got to be given back to the police and the decent people of this country . ’ |
| 21 | When he eventually embarked to be rowed out to the ship , ‘ it blew up just before he reached her , it appears that , if he had left the shore a few minutes sooner , he must have perished with the rest on board ’ |
| 22 | What started out as fresh , clean white wine made from Aligoté or Rkatziteli grapes in Georgia or Moldavia had to be tankered up to the capital for bottling . |
| 23 | Double-breasted to be fastened up to the collar , or left open , the reefer quickly ceased to be only navy blue and became a double-breasted tweed ‘ casual ’ coat , a direct ancestor o f the modern double-breasted suit . |
| 24 | By mutual consent they had n't eaten out , Ace arranging for meals to be sent up to the apartment from the Italian restaurant next door . |
| 25 | A sample of urine is usually needed either for simple testing in the clinic or to be sent off to the laboratory for more sophisticated tests . |
| 26 | Most staff return to the area office in mid-afternoon with samples to be sent off to the laboratory . |
| 27 | It has to be sent off to the Department of Health on the fourteenth of this month . |
| 28 | They are then sent to the Embassy maintained in the state of destination which conveys them to the External Affairs Ministry of that state , which will pass them over to its Ministry of Justice to be sent down to the appropriate local agency for delivery to the addressee . |
| 29 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |
| 30 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |