Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 3 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 4 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 5 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 6 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 7 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 8 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 9 | This has not been publicised elsewhere to date , and that is the one redeeming feature of this otherwise unwelcome and ill-considered arrangement . |
| 10 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 11 | There is widespread disbelief among Germany 's camp followers , then , that tonight 's match may not be a complete sell-out at Ibrox in spite of thousands of tickets having been given away to youth organisations . |
| 12 | Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture . |
| 13 | Everything has always been referred back to mother . |
| 14 | Now , however medieval my proclivities , my bills are bang up to date , so I waved a sheaf of payment slips at the ghosts of the carvers and they vanished . |
| 15 | Near to the time of operation specific measures are carried out to safeguard patients . |
| 16 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 17 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 19 | The former Community Charge was payable on a variety of days depending on the payment method used and this procedure has been carried forward to Council Tax . |
| 20 | Roadside checks have been carried out to try to discover the identity of a baby found dead in a ditch . |
| 21 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 22 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 23 | Research in the USA , however , has shown that the HIV virus can survive , in insufficiently treated sewage which has been pumped out to sea , for up to 12 hours . |
| 24 | Apart from her anxiety over Jennifer 's meeting David again , Rachel had been looking forward to Family Day , but when she arrived for work the next morning the preparations were the furthest thing from her mind . |
| 25 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 26 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 27 | Well obviously unemployment is very high in the North East and er all the major health indicators are related directly to income . |
| 28 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 29 | How do you withstand the the commercial pressures and the emotional pressures , the seventy three of you who are looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 30 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |