Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 4 | A £1m five-year research project into the effects of atmospheric pollutants on forest and crops has suggested that pollutant gases in the atmosphere are causing damage to trees by triggering aphid attacks . |
| 5 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 6 | The local firms are heading west to Chicago as part of a unique joint-venture trade mission organised by the Industrial Development Board and its counterpart in the Republic , the Irish Trade Board . |
| 7 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My Lords , is the Minister that nearly half of all surgical units are cutting back on operations a third are giving priority to patients of G P fund holders and more than half of the N H S Trust er er have a facing a steep rise in emergency admissions of the G Ps that as they fight to get beds for their patients . |
| 10 | Farm animals in the area contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 have been giving birth to offspring with major birth defects . |
| 11 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Is it not true that patients are refused access to services on financial grounds by GPs who are fund holders ? |
| 14 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 15 | Offenders are brought face to face with people who 've lost loved ones in drink-driving accidents . |
| 16 | THE PGA European Tour , which started in Tenerife last year , will be moving north to Portugal for its first tournament of the Nineties . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | in such of the terms on which she is offered employment as make provision in relation to the way in which she will be afforded access to opportunities for promotion , transfer or training or as provide for her dismissal or demotion ; or |
| 20 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 22 | The principal objectives of EC policy were to provide aid to areas of industrial decline or slow development with a simple criterion for aid eligibility . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |