Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 2 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |
| 3 | But legal aid experts argue that low income and capital limits are denying access to justice to increasing numbers of people who can not afford to pay privately . |
| 4 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 5 | You know really screaming and getting raged really resentful and then , you know , back knows ultimately you 're wanting parents to side with us . |
| 6 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 7 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 8 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |
| 9 | By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly . |
| 10 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 11 | Offenders are brought face to face with people who 've lost loved ones in drink-driving accidents . |
| 12 | It 's hard to see what on earth the Ingard group would be paying £300,000 to Osnafeld for . |
| 13 | Both conservative Christians and , more surprisingly , Christian feminists suggest that there are what might be called counterbalances to Christology in the form of female figures or feminine motifs present in Christian theology . |
| 14 | Clients will not be allowed access to information about other private citizens which is in their file — either descriptive material or the fact that someone is the source of a report — unless the other person is happy that it can be shared . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it is important that every member of a firm should be familiar with at least the basic arrangements for its administration and should not be denied access to information about the activities of the firm at any level , subject always to their giving reasonable notice . |
| 16 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 17 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 18 | A bear had broken loose amongst the stews ; a whore was being whipped outside the gates of St Thomas 's Hospital ; two butchers who had sold putrid meat were riding back to back on some old nag , their hands tied behind them , the rotten offal they had sold fastened tightly under their noses . |
| 19 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 20 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 21 | Six people were found shot to death in an apartment in the crime-ridden South Bronx district of New York yesterday in a modern St Valentine 's Day massacre , police said . |
| 22 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 23 | Of the 25 college and 20 special libraries that replied , the majority were already automated , and many others were planning conversion to automation in the near future . |
| 24 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 25 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 27 | And I think what Bob is saying , there is only one account , but you 'll have to endow two accounts , one that is giving rise to interest in the wife 's name , |
| 28 | A survey conducted on behalf of the Institute of Marketing into selling practice in the UK ( PA Consultants , 1979 ) found that , on average , only 20–30 per cent of a salesperson 's normal working day is spent face to face with customers . |
| 29 | Another form of competition policy is to remove obstacles to competition from foreign firms , by reducing or eliminating import tariffs and quotas , or technical standards and government purchasing contracts which favour domestic firms . |
| 30 | If the industry is not a natural monopoly then in order to promote allocative efficiency the appropriate policy for government is to remove barriers to competition in the marketplace . |