Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In brief , it seems that stresses are altered according to context : we need to be able to explain how and why this happens , but this is a difficult question and one for which we have only partial answers . |
| 2 | Allegiances are formed according to colour and group censorship demands conformity as ritualized insults fly : |
| 3 | In this respect , a famously offensive passage by Rousseau on the education of girls may be seen as , after all , no more than realistic for period and place : recommending that girls be taught to break off games they are enjoying to return to work without complaint , he writes : |
| 4 | The games , which have become an annual event , are intended to appeal to weekend sportsmen and women . |
| 5 | Test packages are designed according to job specifications . |
| 6 | Since materials are classified and grouped first by language , all literary forms such as poetry are scattered according to language . |
| 7 | There was also a walled kitchen garden , which had been let go to grass , and a large hole had been knocked into one of the walls to let the tractor in to mow it . |
| 8 | On the basis of a 5-4 majority in a Missouri case judged in July , the cases are expected to lead to expansion of the right of individual states to pass laws regulating abortions . |
| 9 | Dockers at Sharpness are expected to return to work on Monday , although they 've been reluctant to speculate on any future action . |
| 10 | Mix and match elections ( see para 1.2 above ) may be offered where some shareholders are expected to want to realise their investment and others are expected to want to roll-over their capital gains into new ordinary shares of the offeror . |
| 11 | These proteins have been reported to bind to calmodulin . |
| 12 | In more remote areas , where the NO x concentration can be extremely low , ozone destruction has been reported owing to photolysis by near ultraviolet light . |
| 13 | They fear either that we are committed to move to stage three or that , irrespective of the provision in the treaty allowing us a free choice , we would none the less be obliged to move . |
| 14 | While , historically , archaeology departments have been organised according to material — pottery , bone and metals — the new laboratory is organised by processes . |
| 15 | The explanation put forward for this relationship is that where the coverage of collective agreements is extensive , as in centralised-bargaining structures , trade union membership is thereby encouraged since the benefits of agreements are seen to accrue to union members on a wide scale . |
| 16 | After his decision , contigs are built according to Fig 5 . |
| 17 | Similarly , one minute I 'm a busy wide-awake person , and the next , when the decision has been made to go to sleep , I 'm a wide-awake person lying down in bed . |
| 18 | If no further offence is committed , the deterrent has worked , prison space has been saved , and the offender has not been made used to prison conditions . |
| 19 | You 're going to go to sleep are n't you ? |
| 20 | It might be quite warm and we 're going to go to sleep in the car . |
| 21 | ‘ If we 're going to talk to Grandson , 39 , then it 'd better be you who does it . |
| 22 | Their grandma said to me yesterday , have you worked out how you 're going to get to nursery ? |
| 23 | ‘ I think you 're allowed to walk to church and back . ’ |
| 24 | but a when when somebody when it 's becoming apparent that somebody is I would n't say is not interested in your little complaint that you 've got and that that they 're they 're trying to change to subject it 's difficult to keep them on it |
| 25 | SSRs are used to reply to Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) , by providing an explanation of the original problem and a solution to it or by giving recommendations on how to proceed . |
| 26 | SSRs are used to reply to Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) , by providing an explanation of the original problem and a solution to it or by giving recommendations on how to proceed . |
| 27 | Programmes of study are offered leading to Diploma , to the Degree of Master of Urban and Regional Planning , or to the research degrees of MPhil and PhD of Heriot-Watt University . |
| 28 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 29 | However , none of the available approaches has been shown to lead to transfection of growth arrested cells in culture at an appreciable level . |
| 30 | Other growth factors have been shown to bind to matrix components and include platelet derived growth factor ( PDGF ) , interferon-γ ( INFγ ) , acidic fibroblast growth factor ( aFGF ) , and granulocyte colony stimulating factor ( GM-CSF ) . |