Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 3 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 4 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 5 | This feeling of being addressed in a special , understanding way does not happen with the best children 's theatre , and greater credit could be given even to a young audience , with less recourse to pantomime-like delineation of character . |
| 6 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 7 | It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience . |
| 8 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 9 | However , as suggested at the beginning of this chapter , the target group for the intervention should be particularly vulnerable in some way , that is , be predisposed biologically to a major psychiatric disorder , or be low in self-esteem , poor in coping skills , or low in support . |
| 10 | Although there is some laxity in the use of the term , ‘ broadside ’ or ‘ broadsheet ’ should properly be applied only to a complete , undivided large sheet , printed on one side . |
| 11 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
| 12 | All pipe materials can be painted : copper can be polished up to a fine shine if you like the ship 's engine room effect . |
| 13 | By using arcs struck about the assembly points and passing through the other attachment points on the intermediate link , the member may be Positioned initially to a chosen point on the locus of point P ( see Figure 7.42 ) and then rotated to generate an attachment point on the locus of point Q ( link C ) . |
| 14 | As the operator takes readings they are recorded automatically on the attached ‘ datalogger ’ , to be transferred later to a personal computer ( courtesy Cath Price ) . |
| 15 | Susan Mayor , head of Christie 's Costume and Textiles department commented : ‘ Costume of this date is rare but seventeenth-century royal costume is surprisingly rare , and this piece can be dated exactly to a single day , 21 November 1673 when the history of England hung in balance . |
| 16 | Similarly , an unexpectedly low price will be attributed partly to a negative aggregate demand shock and partly to a negative relative demand shock . |
| 17 | It should be clear that such a restoration is not to be undertaken lightly , and it should be entrusted only to a skilled professional . |
| 18 | It has now transpired that this money can not be guaranteed , and the estate may be sold instead to a private buyer . |
| 19 | In a statement the W.Midlands Regional Health Authority said they needed vacant possession for the property to be handed over to a private housebuilder for development . |
| 20 | Most difficult to resolve in the struggle for jurisdiction over clerks who were charged with crimes was whether they could be tried twice , as clause three of the royal Constitutions of Clarendon ( 1164 ) outlined , first in the king 's court and then in the church court , and whether , if found guilty , they should be handed over to a civil court for the passing of the sentence . |
| 21 | This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action . |
| 22 | But peasants also complained when what they called ‘ doctors ’ came out to inspect their cattle and sanitary arrangements , or when two peasants who had murdered their wives had to be handed over to a visiting ‘ social court ’ ( obshchestvennyi sud ) set up by a shefstvo team . |
| 23 | At Cluj disposable nappies and baby food will be handed out to a large orphanage |
| 24 | Same pitch slightly different pitch of course er sorry slight difference is that you 're saying that these of course will be handed out to a targeted |
| 25 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 26 | And indeed he would , very shortly , be going in to a great , gaping hole in the community . |
| 27 | Poorly ventilated and stagnant spaces must be opened up to a constant current of air by the introduction of new ventilation openings as even a vigorous attack of dry rot can be arrested ( but not reduced ) by exposure to fresh air . |
| 28 | Gregory Woods 's remark , quoted at the beginning of this article , suggests , in a rather deliriously utopian , post-Barthes kind of way , that any text can be opened up to a gay interpretation if gay readers decide it to be appropriate — authorial intention is here surrendered in favour of a sort of subcultural authorship , a collective ‘ special thrill ’ , a method of analysis based on a recognition of shared structures of feeling . |
| 29 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 30 | Really , the range of deviance that gets linked with S&M ( everything from suburban catwomen to lesbian ‘ chicks with dicks ’ , from gay men attending workshops on scat to the body piercing crowd ) is too diverse , in some cases too much of a genuine underground , to be tied down to a single political reading . |