Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 2 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 3 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 4 | They are thus to some extent limited in where they can invest , as we discuss further in chapter 6 . |
| 5 | The different methods do not react to the same types of buried feature , and are thus to some extent complementary . |
| 6 | Right we 're on to this roll now . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're back to that word ‘ civil ’ again , ’ she remarked . |
| 8 | You 're back to that situation of commonsense again ai n't you ? |
| 9 | So there is there is a wider acceptance on the one hand , of erm , sort of freedom , erm , and I know we 're back to this idea of sexual freedom , but there is the violence within our society , and and the the the question probably is , are those two connected , as we give greater freedom on the one hand , do we get a higher incidence of violence on the other hand . |
| 10 | Again , we 're back to this idea that , you know , it 's ridiculous stuck in a drama course and not and , and looking at them just as , as text . |
| 11 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 12 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 13 | And we 're back to this thing that if you 're not interested in what you 've written , why do you think anybody else ought to be ? |
| 14 | We 're back to this business of quality is conformance with requirements . |
| 15 | Erm so you 're back to this design element now and that 's the major factor . |
| 16 | If , after all this time , we 're back to this sort of malarkey , they can fuck it , I 'm going on hunger strike . ’ |
| 17 | Bear in mind how things are still to some extent put into newspapers these days . |
| 18 | Although the slimmer and the anorexic are both to some extent governed by anxiety , there is an important difference between them . |
| 19 | But semantically innocuous re-orderings are also to some extent resisted : |
| 20 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 21 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's 'e been up to this time ? ’ asked the put-upon wife . |
| 23 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 24 | There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power . |
| 25 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
| 26 | cos the client might be in a position of saying , well , after six months , I 'm down to half salary , so you might have sold this plan , to pick up the other half , |
| 27 | But no allegations would be made against any individuals , and it would be down to each authority to decide whether to make inquiries with Leicestershire police or social services . |
| 28 | But it will certainly not be down to any shortage of hard work or effort beforehand . ’ |
| 29 | There must be more to this country squire than was disclosed by his clipped mannerisms and his habit of smiling each time he spoke , as though to ease his way through a dubious world . |
| 30 | The pressure will be off to some extent and we can concentrate on winning . |