Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A distinction must also be made between agroforestry and plantation forestry ; the former involves the integration of silviculture with agricultural systems while the latter is entirely given over to timber production .
2 VINTAGE car enthusiast Gordon Smith , a commissionaire at Barlaston , is eagerly looking forward to running is 1920 Humber Tourer out on the roads again this spring .
3 In this non-technical article the author argues that Statistical Process Control is not limited solely to manufacturing applications .
4 Euro Disney stresses that the idea of raising new money is not related specifically to phase two .
5 The latter is established partly because of the expertise it can develop , and this expertise is not related solely to fact finding .
6 When a behaviourist approach is employed , it is not applied only to perception , but to all cognitive states .
7 From the point of view of the tenant , he has the security of the rents payable by the subtenants , and is not called on to find income from other resources .
8 He is not looking forward to Christmas and Sophie 's second birthday on January 15 .
9 Interestingly , this reliance on state funding is not confined solely to industry .
10 The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture .
11 I think that 's all I need say by this time the next our next speaker is usually arriving so to sort of develop and not that there 's a real need for it nor am I capable of doing so .
12 ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’
13 Though turnover leapt from £122.2 million to £239.1 million , the UK market is still responding slowly to recovery , its profits almost halving to £4.1 million .
14 In order to accommodate this the basement is now given over to office space while the ground floor continues to carry monographs and catalogues of Western art .
15 He concluded , ‘ Aung San is now brought back to party line .
16 ‘ The remaining extent of the Works area along the northern portion is mainly given over to timber stores and small departments .
17 OLD sailor Harry Ward is n't looking forward to bonfire night … because his latest drinking companion , Johnny the papier mache Guy , will be burned alive .
18 Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers .
19 That is then dished out to line managers .
20 If this is then converted back to sterling at the end of the year at the spot rate e 1 = 1.91 , we get 1.133 .
21 Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy ( the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks ) ; Hadfield goes catatonic with terror , and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle .
22 This might be a way forward for coal power , which is currently losing out to gas both on the pollution and cost fronts .
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