Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] to the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 2 | There is now an expectancy effect created that any new atrocity is likely to be connected to the earlier ones . |
| 3 | Getting the right result has not lost its importance , but it is no longer enough and attention has to be given to the wider service . |
| 4 | Since this strategy requires monitoring emissions from individual sources , it is a strategy which tends to be limited to the larger industrial emission sources . |
| 5 | It is likely that further research will reveal more examples , and so close attention needs to be paid to the earlier certain boundaries of any territories and estates in the area under study . |
| 6 | The generally-accepted explanation for welfare payment levels in the South is that they are , and have been , low because of : the relative poverty of the southern States , which would call for a high fiscal effort if payments equivalent to those made further north were to be offered to the larger number of poor there ; the electoral safety of the Democratic party with regard to the southern State legislatures and governorships , for over a century — sustained by discriminatory practices which prevented many blacks becoming registered voters despite their legal achievement of civil rights ; and the widespread belief among southern whites in the racial inferiority of blacks — who are the main recipients of welfare benefits coupled with the perceived work-disincentive effects of substantial payments and the encouragement to have even larger , and thus more dependent , families than they are believed to provide . |
| 7 | Now that 's something we in England , in Britain I should say , are not particularly aware of , but a lot of British artists who are very well known on the Continent , that in Britain would seem , you know , too avant-garde to be known to the wider public . |
| 8 | Charles and James would find that , despite the publicized openness of the modern Conservative Party , the lower middle class still tends to be restricted to the lower political positions ; even at a local level , power continues to be unevenly distributed in favour of the upper middle class ( Butler and Pinto-Duschinsky , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | By citizens and burgesses he meant the freemen of corporate towns , taking it for granted that his readers would understand that this privilege had in practice come to be restricted to the richer inhabitants — merchants , not working craftsmen . |
| 10 | This was the kind of language that used to be attributed to the sharper end of the second-hand book world . |