Example sentences of "they [be] [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 . |
| 13 | so they 're probably trying to muscle into the er that niche you see , but er brown bottle you find the critics ? |
| 14 | They 're really going to town on these pavements are n't they ? |
| 15 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 16 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 17 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 18 | It would seem that in Capadocea they were even converted to Christianity for , in that region , St Christopher is often depicted with a dog 's head . |
| 19 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 20 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 21 | They were ideally suited to town life before the spread of hygienic knowledge , readily distributed by polluted rivers , reservoirs , and wells . |
| 22 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 23 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 24 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 25 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |