Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As a result , many who are genuinely aggrieved by apparently unlawful decisions by government bodies and public officials are effectively denied access to justice .
2 There are other reasons why women are unable to build up sufficient National Insurance contributions and are thereby denied access to unemployment benefit .
3 They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set .
4 There 's a couple of boats , but they ai n't moving — they 're just rocking side to side .
5 I 'm just having regard to criterion four of policy H two .
6 Among its aims are increasingly to devolve responsibility to area offices , to set performance targets and to secure that policies on the grant and continuation of legal aid are applied consistently .
7 White settlers often objected to the reserves because they were thereby denied access to farming land , and in some areas the size of the reserves was scaled down to meet their demands .
8 But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person ?
9 Below , in the mathematician 's trench , they were already fighting hand to hand .
10 But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson .
11 I mean , how do we know you were n't playing Stairway To Heaven , Smoke On The Water or Eruption ?
12 BORIS BECKER 'S much heralded return to fitness and form last night ran into the buffers at the ATP World Championships .
13 Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal .
14 In this case , then , to write about reality is not to relate word to thing , but text to text .
15 Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance .
16 Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic .
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