Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psycho-sexual specialists agree that when one partner has a fetish which is causing unhappiness to the other , the situation has become pathological . |
| 2 | And also the Railway used it and er it was used elsewhere , and it 's interesting this , I noticed that erm B R have recently erected er er this type of fencing er which is adds insult to injury possibly , on the at er . |
| 3 | In the case of smoke other than dark smoke emitted from a chimney , which is giving rise to a nuisance , s.16 of the 1956 Act extends the provisions of Part III of the Public Health Act 1936 , to include smoke nuisances . |
| 4 | As well as folk enthusiasts the Darlington Arts Centre , which is playing host to the four-day festival , was crowded with real ale fans enjoying the Campaign For Real Ale 's Small Beer Festival . |
| 5 | As well as folk enthusiasts the Darlington Arts Centre , which is playing host to the four day festival , was crowded with real ale fans enjoying the Campaign For Real Ale 's Small Beer Festival . |
| 6 | This has been brought by Joan Weiss , niece and heir of Armand Hammer 's wife , Frances , and she is laying claim to a large share of the collection . |
| 7 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 8 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 9 | in the way she is afforded access to opportunities for promotion , transfer or training or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford her access to any such opportunities ; or |
| 10 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 11 | Then , in an industry that considers two-colour calling cards flashy , it was hard not to notice the earnest young men and women with the L Ron Hubbard given mission to evangelise about Dianetics , or stunt rider Eddie Kidd , who is carrying self-confidence to the point of leap-frogging his motor cycle clear across the Great Wall of China . |
| 12 | If everyone is screened for genetic disorders , for which there may be no cures , what are those people then to do , and who is to have access to the information — prospective employers , insurers ? |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 14 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 15 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 16 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 17 | In general terms it is to restrict access to judicial review . |
| 18 | Lloyd 's has become acutely aware that it is losing business to large companies , notably in Britain and Europe . |
| 19 | Lloyd 's has become acutely aware that it is losing business to large companies , notably in Britain and Europe . |
| 20 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 21 | ‘ . ’ He is drawing attention to the fact that ‘ I know ’ is sometimes used by a speaker to commit himself to the truth of what he proceeds to say . |
| 22 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 23 | He is saying goodbye to what is past and irretrievably lost . |
| 24 | It is emotional because he is saying goodbye to the last of his kind . |
| 25 | It does mean , however , that we must consider human beings as conceptualising animals , reflecting on what is taking place to them and , furthermore , doing something about it . |