Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | The second band , with its very long progression of vibrational peaks , is assigned to both the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the π u level , while the third and fourth bands are assigned respectively to the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the level ; both levels are expected to be strongly bonding , as suggested by the lower vibration frequencies of the ions . |
| 3 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 4 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 5 | Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack , said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo . |
| 6 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 7 | In orthodox psychoanalysis , after the repressions of pre-genital and genital sexuality had been pointed out to the analysand , the choice was then either to sublimate these impulses or to reject them rationally . |
| 8 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 9 | The billing office has to ensure that charges are posted correctly to the guest 's folio ( bill ) . |
| 10 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 11 | Although consideration has already been given both to the proportion and number of items of different ages requiring repair , there is one further possibly age-related factor which must be taken into account , and that is the degree of deterioration exhibited by the defective items identified . |
| 12 | A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business . |
| 13 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 14 | The workers who are exposed continually to the risk of acquiring an infection include mortuary technicians , pathologists , domestic assistants , porters and nurses . |
| 15 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 16 | The steady increase in the number of complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's report has continued ; 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 17 | The steady increase in complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's Report has continued , 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 18 | They have been contributing generously to the upkeep of the 800 mosques in Britain ; all they ask in return is a say over the appointment of the imam . |
| 19 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 20 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 21 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 22 | These chapters record how the instructions given in chapters 25–31 are carried out to the letter . |
| 23 | Despite this , many pet cats are carried off to the vet by exasperated owners for this type of ‘ convenience surgery ’ . |
| 24 | As a collective , people are contributing financially to the installation of new tube wells . |
| 25 | Mr Doogan — who had previously been let in to the site at Aldermaston , Berks — claimed a new rule banned Irish people . |
| 26 | Nothing that the Minister has said today convinces me that his heart and his mind have been won over to the case for a funding council . |
| 27 | Art schools have been closed down and those that survive are permitted only to the extent to which they have converted to a market economy . |
| 28 | For example , of the 60 or more species of copepods found in arctic plankton , some 50 are of Atlantic origin ; only a very few species penetrate from the Pacific , though some of those have been reported close to the Pole ( Brodsky , 1956 ) . |
| 29 | If isostatic compensation is local , that is if vertical adjustments of the lithosphere in response to the removal of a load are confined just to the area covered by the original load , then isostatic uplift simply reduces the rate at which a land-surface is lowered by denudation ( Fig. 4.7(A) ) . |
| 30 | Insectivorous shrews are confined mainly to the forest-tundra and tundra edge ; only the arctic shrew and masked shrew , both holarctic species , are widespread on the southern tundra , and none penetrates far to the north ( Bee and Hall , 1956 ) . |