Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many translations have been made from direct to jungle English as warnings to writers of reports . |
| 2 | Standards will not rise until changes are made for five to 14-year-olds , warns the National Association of Head Teachers and the Secondary Heads Association . |
| 3 | Those girls are getting from 13s to El a week for producing the Gazette and in London they would have to pay 395 at the lowest to the men who are producing government work , so that the competition is not fair . |
| 4 | This does not imply acceptance of an order which are dealt with subject to availability . |
| 5 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 6 | Basically a simple intercom system which directly replaces an existing door bell system , the inside and outside units can be installed from 3 to 50m apart , using two core-bell wire to connect them . |
| 7 | Despite the slowdown in emigration during 1991 Voice of Israel radio reported on Dec. 10 that Uri Gordon , director of the Jewish Agency , had predicted that 400,000 Soviet immigrants should be expected in 1992. to Egypt |
| 8 | The turbo diesels in the XM and 605 are due to be uprated from 110 to 130bhp . |
| 9 | Spring cabbages must be sown by early to mid-August . |
| 10 | Their jurisdiction should be raised from 40s to £10 ; similar courts should be set up in every county ; the jury should be reduced to four . |
| 11 | In future , while candidates will be allowed to use advanced calculators , they will be forbidden from storing information in the memories of such machines or from using calculators that can be linked by aerial to computers outside the examination room . |
| 12 | The agreement , similar to one which President Alberto Keinya Fujimori had rejected in September 1990 [ see p.37708 ] , provided for US$34,900,000 in military equipment and training for the army and police force — the first such funding since the USA funded anti-guerrilla operations in 1965 — and $60,000,000 in economic aid ( expected to be increased in 1992 to $100,000,000 ) to assist coca growers to switch to other crops . |
| 13 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |
| 14 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |
| 15 | To combat this the regulations stipulated that compensation would be paid in full to landowners , including any lost profit , should their land be taken away from them . |
| 16 | Point mutations in codons 12 , 13 , or 61 have been identified in 39 to 71% of large bowel cancers , as well as 42% of adenomas . |
| 17 | It now seems established that this organism is inolved in the development of chronic inflammation and it has been associated with 19 to 80% of gastric carinomas . |
| 18 | Drinks shares staged a useful recovery as Budget increases were limited to 1 to 1.5p on a pint of beer and five pence on a bottle of wine . |
| 19 | Operating profits dropped by 18 per cent to £105.9 million and interest charges were slashed by two-thirds to £5.4 million . |
| 20 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 21 | Were known of old to Knights , and hungry Squires . |
| 22 | Many of the fish were estimated at 5 to 6lb . |
| 23 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the activity of the promoter in the absence of a SV40 enhancer is sufficiently high to observe that activity is only increased two to three fold when the promoter is deleted from -300 to -190bp . |
| 25 | The five-speed has a special chamber in the rear casing accessed by a valve which opens when the oil temperature reaches 90deg C. Up to 550cc of oil is bled off into the chamber , which means the increase in depth in the main casing is reduced to 15 to 20mm . |
| 26 | The campaign , under the banner ‘ Drinking and driving wrecks lives ’ , is aimed at 25 to 40-year-olds . |
| 27 | Many of our featured Caribbean hotels are all-inclusive properties — everything is paid for prior to departure . |
| 28 | Data General , which offered NeXT workstations for use with its AViiON servers for a time , says it is working with NeXT to make NeXTstep available on its line of Dasher II 486 personal computers . |
| 29 | The elder , Maud , was married to the Count of Zeeland , while the younger , Blanche , had been married in 1359 to John of Gaunt in the expectation that he would eventually receive half the Lancaster inheritance . |
| 30 | From Belgrade he was posted in 1906 to St Petersburg , and in 1907 to Boma in the Belgian Congo , soon after the Casement investigations into the Belgian atrocities . |