Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 2 | In spite of being wholeheartedly committed to trolleybus conversion , there were still some minor improvements to the tram facilities . |
| 3 | In spite of being almost tethered to Marguerite , Jenna enjoyed the trip and was rewarded later by being instructed in the cooking of some of the purchases . |
| 4 | Being Ymor 's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces . |
| 5 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |
| 6 | Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed . |
| 7 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 8 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 9 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 10 | American station design had found a truly contemporary style which proved to be well suited to station scale . |
| 11 | An American report found heart rate to be positively related to blood glucose ( Stamler et al , 1975 ) . |
| 12 | Do you want to be slowly battered to death , before dying in agony ? ’ |
| 13 | Not all poems are sufficiently lyrical , and they may be overburdened with wordy information : This kind poetry is far too prolix to be successfully set to music . |
| 14 | Confronting explicitly collectivist opponents for the first time , the Conservative party , so Fforde contends , stressed the values of the free market , turned to the classical economists to justify non-intervention , and revealed themselves to be doctrinally committed to individualism . |
| 15 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 16 | Also , these studies did not take into account HDL levels , which are well known to be inversely related to serum triglyceride concentrations ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | Indeed , one of the attractions of Madeira is that it does not outwardly appear to be specifically geared to tourism . |
| 18 | Ball and Lacey , for instance , have pointed to the tendency of non-specialist English teachers to be more attracted to transmission pedagogies than their specialist counterparts are . |
| 19 | In Galloway , for example , the reduced breeding performance of golden eagles is considered to be directly related to afforestation due to loss of open moorland which is their main feeding area . |
| 20 | Such a measure would be an insult to our Faith ; it would without question prove to be gravely damaging to morality , private and public ; it would be , and would remain , a curse upon our country . |
| 21 | Mr Berge 's special brand of anarchy seems to be particularily suited to capitalism . |