Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 3 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 5 | The subsurface form of the thrust zone has now been traced eastwards to the northern Rhenish Massif of Germany where it was described by Meissner , Bartelsen , and Murawski ( 1981 ) as a strong reflector 3.4 km deep , dipping slightly to the south-southeast ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 6 | Previous study of colonic pressures in paediatric patients has been limited mainly to the rectosigmoid area , because of relative inaccessibility of the proximal colon . |
| 7 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 8 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 9 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 10 | A number of test cases on Sunday trading and the possible conflict with the treaty of Rome have already come before the European Court and all have been referred back to the various countries involved . |
| 11 | This does n't require prohibitively much energy : a male 's tiny pinprick can be seen by a female from some distance on a dark night , since her eyes are exposed directly to the light source itself . |
| 12 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 13 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |
| 14 | Instead , he claimed , the United States had access in 1985 to ‘ forty-three naval bases and over seventy airfields , of which a considerable number are situated close to the Soviet border ’ . |
| 15 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 16 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 17 | Balance c/f — Amounts which are carried forward to the next day 's tabular ledger . |
| 18 | Project management , incorporating information management , within these programmes will ensure that they are carried out to the same high standard as our taxonomic and floristic research . |
| 19 | The era of class confrontation in Britain 's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910–26 . |
| 20 | They are federated nationally to the National Association of Young people 's Counselling and Advisory Services ( NAYPCAS ) , which has a small secretariat funded by the Home Office . |
| 21 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 22 | First built at the time of Edward I , it has been occupied through to the present day . |
| 23 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 24 | I am committed also to the wider public that we must all represent . |
| 25 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 26 | We should add by way of completeness that the provisions of sections 16 and 12 of the Act of 1873 have been carried forward to the modern day in more or less identical language , mutatis mutandis , to sections 18(3) and 34(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 and then , in more cursory language , to sections 10(3) ( b ) and 44(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 27 | The execution of these ideas with regard to graphical presentation and production of an addictive shoot-em-up arcade game have been carried out to the highest professional standard . |
| 28 | ‘ Danny 's really been looking forward to the fair , ’ explained Rachel to Jimmy who had pitched in and was helping the driver to lift a wheelchair from the minibus . |
| 29 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 30 | The effect of one cycle of this algorithm is that one node and its near neighbours are moved closer to the current input . |