Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historians who have reconstructed the context of his trip have generally concluded that , far from being a momentary aberration , the Montreal speech was the culmination of a policy that can be traced back to the early 1960s . |
| 2 | there is increased liberality in interpretation in several texts , but they can mostly be traced back to the increasing imperial intervention in trust cases from the time of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 3 | Tory legal-constitutionalism was nothing new in the early eighteenth century — it is in evidence during the years of the Exclusion Crisis and Tory reaction , and its roots can be traced back to the Clarendonian position at the Restoration . |
| 4 | As Elcock ( 1986 , Chapter 9 ) points out , town and country , planning can be traced back to the Victorian era when enlightened industrialists sought to improve areas such as Bournville in Birmingham and Saltaire in West Yorkshire . |
| 5 | The persistent failures can always be traced back to the original false premise that all existence is controlled by an undefined and unassailable ‘ god ’ . |
| 6 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 7 | In some of the large international companies this process of amalgamating mission and vision has already begun — though it can , of course be traced back to the philanthropic industrialists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 8 | In reality , these devices are a form of laser whose development can be traced back to the post-war years and which have a wide range of applications beyond generating very high powers . |
| 9 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 10 | So it wo n't necessarily be that patients from er a G P surgery or a G P practice will be referred directly to the local hospital . |
| 11 | Before the programme is finally adopted it has to be referred back to the European Parliament for a second time . |
| 12 | The deposits , whose discovery was announced by Command Petroleum on April 2 , 1991 , were believed to be situated close to the proposed route of a 260-km pipeline currently under construction to transport Kutubu oil to the Gulf of Papua . |
| 13 | The shoulders , hips and toes should be aligned parallel to the ball-to-target line . |
| 14 | The propaganda had to be adjusted accordingly to the new , and more distant , relationship with the Führer which the Russian campaign had brought about . |
| 15 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 16 | It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade . |
| 17 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 18 | Fresh molten amber must be added subsequently to the shaved toes to replenish what was taken — unless , unless the amber grew of its own accord like veritable flesh due to the miraculous proximity of those bones . |
| 19 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 20 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 22 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |
| 23 | In fact , the consolidated balance sheet is published for little more than completeness : it gives the net debit balances and net credit balances for the organization to be carried forward to the new financial year . |
| 24 | This helps to explain why they do not publish consolidated opening statements : ‘ cost of the services of the organization ’ adds nothing to the fund operating statements ; the measure of performance has no meaning ; and , of course , there are no balances included to be carried forward to the new year which are not included in the balance sheet . |
| 25 | As I arrived a tractor pulled up with sacks of freshly-picked hops that would be carried up to the main floor of the building to be dried . |
| 26 | In the event the money was nothing like enough because the new owners were able to force Ayling to pay for structural work which needed to be carried out to the upper part . |
| 27 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 28 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 29 | And then , with terror that was not his own , he was alive again , in the sweet blackness , and Mouse clung desperately , only to be wrenched back to the red deathly peace , hearing an endless scream as a woman he had never seen died , died endlessly and now . |
| 30 | The remainder should be tailored more to the vocational interests of the students , and be divided equally between vocational studies related to a general idea of employment and studies specific to a particular job . |