Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " 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 | VX147 was later loaned to Lettice Curtis to take part in the Grosvenor Challenge Trophy air race , held in August 1949 at Birmingham 's Elmdon Airport , before being further loaned to BEA for a series of trials while still in service colours . |
| 6 | However , this is not what was expected from Study 1 where recall seemed to be strongly related to ratings of subjective risk . |
| 7 | Anaspids also show a dorsally placed nasohypophysial opening and are therefore considered to be closely related to lampreys and cephalaspids . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed . |
| 10 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Pietro Petraroia , soprintendente of the Brera , has arranged for the painting to be temporarily transferred to Milan for a detailed technical and stylistic comparison to be undertaken . |
| 13 | THE COMMON MODERN NOVEL , IN WHICH THERE IS NO IMAGINATION , BUT A MISERABLE STRUGGLE TO EXCITE AND GRATIFY MERE CURIOSITY , OUGHT , IN MY JUDGEMENT , TO BE WHOLLY FORBIDDEN TO CHILDREN . |
| 14 | ‘ These things ought , in my judgement , to be wholly forbidden to children , ’ I said , instead . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |
| 17 | The best friend of Princess Diana 's brother was said to have arranged for bullion to be secretly exported to India . |
| 18 | Research topics do not need to be immediately related to BP Chemicals operations but they must be on environmental matters . |
| 19 | On the face of it , hand-composition in letterpress printing seemed to be well suited to women 's " dexterity " . |
| 20 | American station design had found a truly contemporary style which proved to be well suited to station scale . |
| 21 | An American report found heart rate to be positively related to blood glucose ( Stamler et al , 1975 ) . |
| 22 | We happened to be talking about the diary habit which , nowadays , seems to be largely confined to politicians . ’ |
| 23 | Do you want to be slowly battered to death , before dying in agony ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As a ‘ new ’ curricular area , the rationale for PSD modules will have to be carefully explained to students , parents and employers . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Balliol also agreed to repay Edward for the help he had given in preparing the expedition by handing over to him land worth £2,000 a year to be selected from those parts of Scotland adjacent to England : in effect , the southern counties of Scotland were to be permanently ceded to England . |
| 30 | Ah , oh , oh there 's a change , you 're lucky , he used to be home talking to Sue oh excuse me you wan na break free |