Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earnings per share at the Blackburn-based company advanced to 13.8p from 13.2p and the dividend total for shareholders is up to 5.63p from 5.36p . |
| 2 | A concern for animals is also to the fore in the classic text of W.M.S. Russell and R.L. Burch ( 1959 ) , The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique . |
| 3 | The teaching of values is up to the school , she argues , as it is the teachers ' opinion that children respect . |
| 4 | As in the Z2 Carbonate , a belt of good porosity might be expected at the edge of the platform where a continuous sequence of oolites is though to be present . |
| 5 | References in other provisions of the Act to laying of accounts are then to be read as references to the sending of copies under section 238 . |
| 6 | The monotonous cawing of seabirds was soon to be broken , however , and not by quite such a fearful development . |
| 7 | Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems . |
| 8 | The three colours , natural , red or buff can be used separately or mixed , though a mixture of colours is not to everyone 's taste . |
| 9 | Order must be kept and , while the regimentation of plants is not to be recommended , aquatics in an informal situation must be regularly kept in check . |
| 10 | It seems to us that it is a perfectly proper use of ordinary language and as such to be readily understood by ordinary literate men and women to say of a person in this appellant 's position that his services as an accountant were ‘ employed ’ by his customers , and that this state of affairs is properly to be described by the word ‘ employment . ’ |
| 11 | This happy state of affairs was soon to be destroyed , for Seth , the younger brother of Osiris , was jealous of Osiris 's power and prestige and determined to seize the throne for himself . |
| 12 | This highlighted the need for the regeneration of the Essex manufacturing base , and a series of seminars are now to be held to discover how many people have workable ideas waiting to be put into practice . |
| 13 | We must allow that the course of events is partly to be explained by appealing to individual characteristics . |
| 14 | Central to his argument is the claim that the course of events is principally to be explained in terms of the social needs of a society , needs which ultimately rest upon the forces of production . |
| 15 | The decision of whether I will be meat for crocodiles is up to Banda himself , ’ he told the BBC before his flight . |
| 16 | His famous comment about things are back to as they should be every nation for herself and god for us all . |
| 17 | A hospital which had been threatened with cuts is now to be expanded . |
| 18 | On Merseyside thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and numbers of cars stolen are down to 12,992 an overall drop of nine per cent . |
| 19 | On Merseyside , thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and the number of cars stolen has fallen to 12,992 an overall drop of 9% . |
| 20 | At the beginning of the 37th general congregation Archbishop Felici announced an alteration in the rules governing secrecy : from now on it was permissible to reveal what was said in debates in the Council , though discussion in commissions was still to be kept from journalists . |
| 21 | Such frightened insolence about Americans is still to be found in England , and among what the English regard as their intellectual and artistic elite . |
| 22 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 23 | The only acceptable environment for children is thus to be in the care of a heterosexual couple , as this is the only ‘ normal ’ environment which can provide a ‘ natural ’ stable family life . |
| 24 | At St Michaels even the rules they do have regarding animals are there to be broken at the special blessing service |
| 25 | The exemption of gifts and bequests between spouses is certainly to be welcomed , and the amended regulations which provide reasonable scope for gifts to charity are a belated honouring of the promise in the White Paper that charities would be at least as well off as under the old estate duty . |