Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 2 | Perhaps he should extend it , for he had not yet taken Alice to the promised lunch at the Ritz , or been up to Leicestershire to see Mrs Appleby , or fulfilled his promise to Jenny to go down to Calking to see the shop and meet Jack and his family . |
| 3 | We shall make the widening of the Community a priority , and shall advocate speedy admission for Austria , Sweden , Finland and Cyprus , whose membership applications have been or are about to be lodged . |
| 4 | While most supermarket chains in Europe have been ( or are about to be ) battered by recession , discounters like Germany 's Aldi and Denmark 's Netto are flourishing . |
| 5 | And all the corridors , stairways , and walls in other areas , have either been re-painted or are about to be . |
| 6 | The tenant should consider its deletion , particularly where the premises form part of a shopping centre and the other units have already been constructed or are about to be so . |
| 7 | Third-person pronouns are frequently used to refer back ( and occasionally forward ) to an entity which has already been introduced ( or is about to be introduced ) into the discourse . |
| 8 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 9 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 10 | Nowadays , most excavations are conducted on sites that are about to be destroyed , and so when the excavation is finished , the site is left to its fate . |
| 11 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 12 | After only half an hour we can tack left and right — a must in general , as going downwind puts the canopy between you and the way ahead giving you no chance of avoiding rocks and ruts — so that we can move almost anywhere in an arc that is up to 45 degrees on either side of the wind . |
| 13 | For hair that is up to 30% grey , a vegetable rinse ( semipermanent colour ) will add both vibrancy and shine while giving natural-looking highlights . |
| 14 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 15 | It is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology , has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed . |
| 16 | I believe that we should establish a different international organization that is up to the task of managing whaling . " |
| 17 | ‘ I think it would be better if Chris Lewis had a month off before the season starts again but I 'm afraid that is up to his county . |
| 18 | Having children is a life choice that is down to the individual . |
| 19 | A more effective cry is ‘ Fire ’ because everyone sticks their heads out in case it is their house or car that is about to be burnt down . |
| 20 | Yarns will also be stored there , allowing more production space for the ‘ Templetwist ’ range of carpet that is about to be manufactured by Lyles . |
| 21 | Now if the shop want to offer you an alternative that 's up to them and you can of course accept if you wish . |
| 22 | Erm if you wanted to get time to look at the chart to colour the planets the right colour that 's up to you . |
| 23 | If she 's invited you to her house that 's up to you in n it ? |
| 24 | if you want to waste your money that 's up to you |
| 25 | I 'm speaking as a bus driver , yes , within a company that 's about to be privatized , and yes of course the bottom line is important and management think that it is vitally important and we know no longer get subsidies from any where including the Government , unlike your erm Local District Council , operated services so its very , very difficult for people in our position to actually keep services on the road if they do n't pay . |
| 26 | In a new biography of him , Lineker says : ‘ The substitution was a decision that was up to the manager . |
| 27 | The appeal committee dismissed the applicant 's appeals , stating that to put any more pressure on a year intake that was up to its capacity would be beyond the school 's resources and detrimental to its ability to provide an efficient education , and that the girls did not meet the admission criteria . |
| 28 | After giving the case careful consideration , the panel decided that , as is stated in section 6(3) ( a ) of the Education Act 1980 , that to put any more pressure on a year intake that was up to its capacity would be beyond the school 's resources and detrimental to its ability to provide an efficient education . |
| 29 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 30 | back down the road … and further Solar Flair is still going … they 've cracked it at last … and are up to forty five miles an hour … next stop is Adelaide the city that closes its streets to grand prix cars … today … the roads are open and the crowds out to welcome them in … |