Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter what time of year it is , you can freeze your socks off in winter or be boiling to death in summer , and the Ipswich to Debenham bus is always late . |
| 2 | One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens . |
| 3 | Sufficiently small objects will either be entirely ablated , or be aerobraked to free-fall speeds . |
| 4 | The pilgrims , 680 of whom were later identified as Indonesian and some 600 as Turkish , died of suffocation or were trampled to death in a frantic attempt to escape , as an estimated 50,000 worshippers converged simultaneously on the 500-metre long al-Mu'aysam tunnel connecting Mecca to the pilgrim tent city of Mina , below Mount Arafat . |
| 5 | Consideration should be given to the question whether " damage " is to be restricted to physical damage or is to extend to loss of profits caused by disturbance of the tenant 's business . |
| 6 | Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case . |
| 7 | The structurally equivalent residues in rat CD2 may be identified by sequence alignment and Fig.5 b indicates the sidechain positions for those that are exposed to solvent in the sCD2 structure . |
| 8 | Similarly , workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health . |
| 9 | One problem it would address is the proportion of grants — as much as 10 per cent — that are lost to currency conversions because French research institutes can not hold foreign currencies . |
| 10 | Using an example of e-mail the paper demonstrates the sorts of data that are lost to history . |
| 11 | You had to be ‘ circumspect in identifying where such people that are aspiring to democracy … are … important to us . ’ |
| 12 | We must recognise that we need both accurate descriptions of language that are related to situation , purpose and mode ( i.e. whether the language is spoken or written ) , and prescriptions that take account of context , appropriateness and the expression of meaning . |
| 13 | But there is perhaps a more fundamental problem here : establishing personality traits or types that are related to crime does not constitute an explanation ; it is the way such traits and types come about , and how they lead to crime , that provides that . |
| 14 | All countries that are committed to non-proliferation and all the signatories to the treaty must be prepared both for greater resources to go into the inspection process and to submit to greater surveillance . |
| 15 | Many products contain mechanisms that are interfaced to electronics and with the advances in miniaturization of these products it is only the special-purpose machines which possess the skills to manufacture and assemble them . |
| 16 | Fortunately there are still a handful of splendid brews that are allowed to condition in the bottle . |
| 17 | Such tumorigenesis has been induced in cultured cells following transfection with some of the 7-membrane-spanning receptors that are coupled to PLC ( Fig. 1 and Box 1 ) such as 5-HT 1c ( ref. 139 ) , M1 , M2 and M5 140 , and α 1B -receptors . |
| 18 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 19 | In short , ignorance of the decisions which others are in fact about to make may cause decision-makers to make unfortunate plans — either plans that are doomed to disappointment or plans which fail to exploit existing market opportunities . |
| 20 | A version of the popular arcade game where you have to prevent the destruction of your isolated city from the alien threads that are falling to earth , you do this by blasting the threads with your ground based lasers . |
| 21 | Its workstation figures include sales of server systems that are dedicated to workstation environments , tools and utilities software such as operating systems , compilers , software engineering tools and graphics libraries , certain peripherals — such as personal computer co-processor boards and laser printers — service , maintenance , custom consulting and systems integration fees . |
| 22 | Its workstation figures do include sales of server systems , but only servers that are dedicated to workstation environments , plus tools and utilities software such as operating systems , compilers , software engineering tools and graphics libraries , certain peripherals — such as personal computer co-processor boards and laser printers — service , maintenance , custom consulting and systems integration fees . |
| 23 | One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching . |
| 24 | On the strength of a prayer from a loving soul , she would suggest an unfortunate soul be reborn and given a chance to reform , rather than be doomed to purgatory . |
| 25 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 26 | It proved a complex process to eliminate variables that were related to intelligence without removing any that might be directly related to lead . |
| 27 | In the past few years , a number of former hospitals that were doomed to demolition have been successfully converted . |
| 28 | Furthermore , recording them on video allows for discussion in which the ‘ rules of appropriateness ’ can begin to be described rather than being left to instinct . |
| 29 | It is assumed here that juries and others do attach considerable importance to the label when it is a question of homicide , and therefore that the excessive use of force in self-defence is a matter which is properly reflected by a separate qualified defence , rather than being left to sentencing ( which means executive discretion , if the mandatory penalty for murder remains ) or forced artificially into the doctrine of provocation ( when there may be no real evidence of loss of self-control ) . |
| 30 | Following a stroke , the patient may be kept at home , rather than being admitted to hospital . |