Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concluded , ‘ On all questions relating to health , housing and education , the Labour Party can be trusted to attend to the interests of the women and the children ’ . |
| 2 | Kerrison , for example , claimed that ‘ On all questions relating to health , housing and education , the Labour Party can be trusted to attend to the interests of the women and children ’ . |
| 3 | The employee 's claim was , however , effectively refused in the British Steel case because such benefits as might be expected to flow to the employer from refinements to the patented product had not ( yet ) materialised . |
| 4 | Mr W Doggart emphasised that tutors would be expected to adhere to the contents of the packs which would become official Institute precept and practice . |
| 5 | In general a failure to serve a committal order in due time would not be expected to lead to the quashing of the sentence of imprisonment . |
| 6 | ‘ It is my belief that , without an honest money , Soviet citizens can not be expected to respond to the reforms , as they do not have a meaningful incentive , ’ said Mr Angell . |
| 7 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 8 | Those at lower organizational levels who will be responsible for implementing various aspects of the change can not be expected to commit to the effort until they see for themselves that the organizational leadership is similarly committed . |
| 9 | The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the teaching of a range of postgraduate and undergraduate programmes . |
| 10 | Measures directly towards the amelioration of these conditions might be expected to contribute to the prevention of attempted suicide , although other factors — such as the availability of drugs , cultural attitudes , and the level of services available — might have a more immediate effect . |
| 11 | This overlap has raised some difficulty about the extent to which a client should be expected to contribute to the cost of the services received . |
| 12 | But if the airspace is excluded from the demise , the tenant 's adviser should ensure that the tenant obtains a right to enter the airspace for the purpose of performing his covenants. ( g ) Fences In the case of wooden fences it is likely to be inferred that in the absence of freeboard the owner of land will use his land to the fullest extent ; and the fence will be deemed to belong to the person on whose side the rails and posts are placed , the palings being placed on his neighbour 's side ( Halsbury 's Laws of England , 4th edn , vol 4 , para 849 ) . |
| 13 | On July 31 Aquino had announced that former First Lady Imelda Marcos and her children would be permitted to return to the Philippines in order to stand trial on outstanding corruption charges , but that the corpse of the former President would remain banned . |
| 14 | During a televised national address on July 20 , Roh announced that his government would open the border at Panmunjom for five days from Aug. 13 and allow unrestricted crossings , although a government spokesman later suggested that the country 's leading dissidents would not be permitted to travel to the North . |
| 15 | All might preserve some religious truth and meaning , but none could be allowed to make any absolute claims , though each would be acceptable to the extent — but only to the extent — that it conformed or could be made to conform to the standard of natural religion , conceived of as a set of beliefs or principles which could stand very well on their own feet . |
| 16 | Public health physicians propose the technology of health needs assessment as the mechanism by which the purchasing process will be made to respond to the distribution of the population 's needs . |
| 17 | Having seen how it is possible to tell a story within a particular sequence , let's take a step back to consider how this might be made to relate to the story of a whole day on the sands . |
| 18 | In hospital , the parents can be enabled to spend as much time as they wish with their sick child , and efforts can be made to keep to the child 's familiar routines ( Rutter , 1979b ) . |
| 19 | This solution can be seen to reduce to the Khan-Penrose solution ( 3.9 ) when . |
| 20 | By and large , however , they argued that the behaviour of the electorate was shaped less by their stance to particular policy issues and more by generalised attitudes and beliefs about the party 's " image " , and they specifically pointed out " how little the mass of voters could be said to respond to the policy alternatives at Westminster in judging the claims of the rival parties " . |
| 21 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 22 | The old adage ‘ The mind is willing but the flesh is weak , ’ could be said to apply to the M.C.R. and its attitude towards sport . |
| 23 | Often , the vomiting of good may be thought to point to the presence of a simple , partial mechanical obstruction to gastric emptying . |
| 24 | Reasons that should have determined the authority 's directive but failed to do so can not be thought to belong to the justification of the directive . |
| 25 | Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance . |
| 26 | The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat . |
| 27 | One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals . |
| 28 | In the case of a Claimant travelling alone and able to return to the U.K. on his own , if the return portion of his air ticket can be used to return to the U.K. , then no claim can be paid as no additional expenses have been incurred . |
| 29 | It can also specify the password to be used to obtain to the module . |
| 30 | Additionally , the Video Guide explains techniques such as the use of freeze-frame and silent viewing that can be used to add to the effectiveness of the video . |