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 | The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He concluded , ‘ Aung San is now brought back to party line . |
| 9 | ‘ The remaining extent of the Works area along the northern portion is mainly given over to timber stores and small departments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That is then dished out to line managers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This might be a way forward for coal power , which is currently losing out to gas both on the pollution and cost fronts . |