Example sentences of "they are [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 2 | Their advantages are : they are generally made to measure , so awkward sizes are n't a problem ; they need minimal maintenance ; and they usually have integral weatherstripping . |
| 3 | Twenty-o twenty-two and a hundred and twenty-five I do n't propose to speak to because er they are closely related to Government amendments , but I shall talk about it in another respect , but er seventeen and eighteen are in the theme of what so many Noble Lords have said , including the Noble Lord , Lord , and that is the importance of the local people er being er on these er thes th these these new police authorities and I seek to remove er the five appointed or any appointed people er by the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | Such hydration expansion commonly occurs in response to changes in relative humidity which , since they are closely related to temperature , may be diumal . |
| 5 | They are however counted to wood for righteousness : as long as one can hear a timber structure one is very unlikely to break it . |
| 6 | The obvious difficulty with behaviouristic accounts of mental states is that , although in a way they do provide what was wanted , i.e. an account of mental states in which they are non-contingently related to behaviour , still they appear to ignore everything that is characteristically mental . |
| 7 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 8 | Whilst executive summaries can be useful , they create problems when they are virtually extended to book-length . |
| 9 | Speaking only from a base financial standpoint , there is probably no book of which people hold higher hopes than the Bible , and none where they are more doomed to disappointment . |
| 10 | When women are turned away , they are usually referred to homelessness organisations or other groups . |
| 11 | They are usually made to measure , so matching awkward sizes is easy . |
| 12 | They are usually made to measure , so matching awkward sizes is easy . |