Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacturers and specialists are struggling to respond to constantly changing requirements , he said . |
| 2 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 3 | Although earnings slipped from 8.1p to 17.6p last year due to a much higher tax charge , they are expected to improve to about 20.3p a share in the current year . |
| 4 | In 1991 sales are expected to slip to around 13.5m . |
| 5 | The public expenditure cuts forced on the government in 1947 and the false sense of security that enough had been done led to less vigorous reinforcement of regional policy programmes . |
| 6 | Of course the ‘ Units ’ are bought by investors , and these units are priced according to how many are in existence and what the total value of the trusts ' net asset holdings are ( e.g. £50m net assets and 5m units means each unit is priced at £10 ) . |
| 7 | I think if it becomes clear that if it does n't happen in February we 're going to have to really reappraise the situation , |
| 8 | ‘ You 're going to have to bloody jump to get yourself clear of this one . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , these children might have been interpreted according to overly lax canons — compare our discussion of chimp gesture above . |
| 10 | A publishing company , financed by Edinburgh District Council and the Wester Hailes Partnership in Edinburgh has collapsed with debts which are thought to run to over a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 11 | Even in Blaisdon , fruit growers are beginning to look to more reliable crops . |
| 12 | Congress , we are bound to come to only one conclusion that equalizing pensions to sixty will be of benefit to all people , and the Tories are definitely not supporting that approach . |
| 13 | PRESCRIPTION charges are set to soar to more than £4 as Chancellor Norman Lamont fails to heal Britain 's sick economy . |
| 14 | This meant that the final total of kids to be rescued came to around one hundred and twenty . |
| 15 | In the case of developing countries , different dates of origin may in themselves be expected to lead to quite different features in their industrial relations despite the attainment of a similar stage of economic development . |
| 16 | The following day Sharif sent a special envoy to the UN Secretary-General , calling for a UN fact-finding mission to Kashmir , and warning that Pakistan " can not be expected to continue to indefinitely prevent such marches by use of force " . |
| 17 | In the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 13cm . |
| 18 | It is found in the rivers of Colombia and Peru , and in the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 130mm . |
| 19 | Can the fundamentally religious ritual be the new foundation of a piece of modern art , to be evaluated according to purely aesthetic criteria ? |
| 20 | Corpora may be classified according to how much analysis the corpus creators have performed on the text . |
| 21 | We seek to identify the writer 's intended referent for a pronoun , since a pronoun can , in effect , be used to refer to almost anything . |
| 22 | I mean you know I ca n't be bothered trying to so I do n't think I will go . |
| 23 | The same strictures can also be adapted to apply to less inflationary accounts of consent . |
| 24 | 1982 saw the first publication of the autumn statement , which can be taken to refer to both the publication and the Chancellor 's oral statement ( see Economic Progress Report 153 , HM Treasury , January 1983 ) . |
| 25 | When new text is presented to the model this can be processed according to how closely it matches what has gone before . |
| 26 | The slogan at the back of the stage could be changed so that the appropriate place name could be inserted according to where we were . |
| 27 | That individuals and groups should be categorised according to identifiably different , phenotypical characteristics is essential to ‘ race ’ discourse . |
| 28 | The level of rent to qualify for full Housing Benefit subsidy will be determined according to locally operating market forces . |
| 29 | Rates are fixed according to officially designated subsistence needs which are much lower than net earnings during the period of paid employment . |
| 30 | Revenues from oil and gas production were expected to amount to around 20,000 million kroner in 1990 , equivalent to nearly 7 per cent of the national budget . |