Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Businessmen are banding together to bring to book those who illegally dump wagon loads of waste , and the Merseyside Development Corporation have backed the initiative with the introduction of video cameras to monitor the twilight activity . |
2 | These schemes and the benefits they provide , in general , are organised hierarchically according to employment status and occupational class ( James , 1984 ) . |
3 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |
4 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |
5 | Certain diseases are hereditary ( or at least familial ) ; sadly , it is being discovered that some babies are born already addicted to heroin or with the AIDS virus . |
6 | They 've just made it into a town where people are travelling out to go to work |
7 | Pepsinogen synthesis has been found closely linked to secretion and depletion of stores by a well regulated feedback mechanism under in vitro conditions . |
8 | They said Nicola had been found brutally stabbed to death in her office although neither newspaper disclosed that the murder weapon was a pair of scissors . |
9 | The Commission strongly affirms the value of silent as well as vocal participation , and it believes that worshippers need to be taught how to listen to music no less attentively than they do to the reading of Scripture , or to preaching , or to the recitation of prayers . |
10 | On completion of the consultation process with members the paper will be redrafted then submitted to Government . |
11 | Fun Ski and the travel company Made to Measure Holidays Ltd are in partnership , therefore all enquiries and booking can be made through Made to Measure , telephone 0243 533333 . |
12 | When the use of the term ‘ reading readiness ’ in education is examined , it will be seen not to refer to readiness to read , nor even to readiness to learn to read , but to quite a different state of affairs , namely readiness to cope with reading instruction . |
13 | I 'm lying there frightened to death and then I 'm worn out . |
14 | In practice , the word seems to be used mostly to refer to animal sonar . |
15 | THE number of patients waiting for hospital treatment has been cut considerably according to health officials . |
16 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |
17 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |
18 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
19 | The slog , however , is slow and the ghost of RPG is proving hard to lay to rest . |
20 | So everything 's going really according to plan . |
21 | Yet , like any good joke , there is an element of genuine pain behind one solicitor 's comment that ‘ one way to speed up litigation is do n't go to court ’ . |
22 | The Stone of Destiny was in alien hands , but in other respects the coronation ceremony on 25 March 1306 was carried out according to tradition . |
23 | Therefore , by the mid-1970s , Cramlington was proceeding much according to plan , with a number of firms being attracted to the area and the consequent job creation being associated with extensive housing developments by both the private and , public sectors . |
24 | Candy was brought up dancing to soul and reggae from the age of six in Ladbroke Grove . |
25 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |