Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we are on to a loser with this one , but good luck … |
| 2 | All I can say on that is that , as regards the delivery of patient care in the areas from which we have received trust applications , we are on to a winner . |
| 3 | With our high standard of food and a quality presentation , we are on to a winner and the school has been very impressed so far . ’ |
| 4 | If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens . |
| 5 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 6 | My sisters have been along to a couple of events , and Mum and Dad watch my performances on television , as well as videos of my races . |
| 7 | Now they are away to a University of Wolverhampton team in the quarter finals.The Observer Moot is a national competition in which pairs of students representing law departments from universities in England , Wales and Northern Ireland argue points of law before a moot judge . |
| 8 | ‘ And you 're on to a winner with the poll tax , paying the same as us . ’ |
| 9 | Costs are well down and will continue to fall and I 'm more confident than ever that we 're on to a winner . |
| 10 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 11 | Now that you 're down to an average of 68 pages , why not run back up to 84 with the features that made you great . |
| 12 | Let's hope for a butterflyfilled summer this year , and if you 're off to a country wedding , may it be as joyful an occasion as the Sarns ' feast . |
| 13 | Of course , it 's Bonfire Night , so if you 're off to a display or just having a few sparklers at home , have a great evening . |
| 14 | We would say that the gap has , it did widen , it 's narrowed again , and we , we 're back to a situation of stability . |
| 15 | His moustache be so fine , I am nigh to a swound ! |
| 16 | The alternatives are up to a pint of seed bait , such as sweetcorn , a pint of casters , etc . |
| 17 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 20 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 21 | In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue . |
| 22 | MIX and Max with Mel and you could be on to a video winner as we give away more than £2,500worth of Gibson tapes . |
| 23 | The company seems to be on to a winner — at least in theory . |
| 24 | But , he argued , the Bank would be on to a winner once it started collecting , and selling , 12 tonnes of paper per week . |
| 25 | £82 may not be much to a Cabinet Minister , but it is a fortune to many of our clients . |
| 26 | But this access would be only to an interpretation translation at the lower level ( one in which there remains a one — many mapping of commands ) but not to an ( inscrutable ) compilation translation . |
| 27 | Most international staff in Sarajevo would be evacuated because the risks of staying on were too great , Mr Land said , adding : ‘ We 'll be down to a skeleton staff by the weekend . ’ |
| 28 | Most international staff in Sarajevo would be evacuated because the risks of staying on were too great , Mr Land said , adding : ‘ We 'll be down to a skeleton staff by the weekend . ’ |
| 29 | Previously I 've written songs about all these other subjects which personally affect me , but now I 'm thirtysomething and it may be down to a need to find out about and rationalise my environment , but these songs about Wales seem to be appearing . ’ |
| 30 | Business come mid-afternoon will be down to a trickle as people head home to watch the F.A . |