Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The turnstones are winter visitors to Britain . |
| 2 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 3 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 4 | The sharp upturn indicates a great improvement in SCOTVEC 's ability to ‘ turn around ’ results ; it also indicates that more centres are returning results to SCOTVEC as early as possible . |
| 5 | I 've been writing cheques to Rob Thomas . |
| 6 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 7 | The university and polytechnic librarians seem to be on surer ground when they are producing guides on literature search strategies , or guides to the preparation of bibliographical references or guides to the preparation of projects and theses : that is , when they are writing guides to library and information techniques . |
| 8 | Because of strong demand , all companies are urging delegates to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment . |
| 9 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 10 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 11 | Now there are organized trips to Antarctica for the experience and the wildlife ; to the remotest of Pacific islands sailing in a tall ship ; to cross Africa by flying-boat or hot-air balloon , or to travel through the Arabian Desert by camel in the steps of Lawrence of Arabia . |
| 12 | Do you find tha that that you 're you 're bringing traditions to people ? |
| 13 | You know really screaming and getting raged really resentful and then , you know , back knows ultimately you 're wanting parents to side with us . |
| 14 | Managers who are selling shares to Newco may of course also invest further cash in Newco as they are likely to be increasing their investment in the business . |
| 15 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 16 | Production finished at the end of May and since then , as you know , we have been moving broadlooms to Elderslie and some narrow looms to Runcorn . |
| 17 | Today , whether the computer is large or small , people are buying solutions to problems , in which the computer is a minor aspect . |
| 18 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon yesterday revealed 134 acres of land had been restored thanks to £4.3m in Derelict Land Grant . |
| 19 | This can be used to calculate the required information ; it turns out that the improvements that can be achieved by access frequency loading are to reduce accesses to synonyms from 34.06 per cent to 28.4 per cent for single — record buckets , and from 8.59 per cent to 4.90 per cent for ten-record buckets . |
| 20 | she 'll be subletting rooms to people . |
| 21 | Anything not collected with one month will be considered donations to NCT . |
| 22 | Anything not collected within one month will be considered donations to NCT . |
| 23 | This is particularly important because we are now moving into an era when many of Britain 's first wave of home-owners will be bequeathing homes to relations , many of whom will be home-owners themselves . |
| 24 | Tens of thousands of Amnesty members and supporters in over 100 countries will be writing letters to governments about these particular cases . |
| 25 | One partial solution to the problem of accounting for intra-regional cross-boundary flows would be to allocate resources to authorities taking no account of the cross-boundary flows and to leave them to take the responsibility of paying for their own residents treated elsewhere … there would be far more flexibility for the Area planners to arrange health care for their population . |
| 26 | A more practical idea would be to fix filters to car exhausts , but they would have to be changed fairly frequently . |
| 27 | Both conservative Christians and , more surprisingly , Christian feminists suggest that there are what might be called counterbalances to Christology in the form of female figures or feminine motifs present in Christian theology . |
| 28 | If future work is needed we will be making representations to Thames Water . |
| 29 | I shall be introducing children to examples of natural and non- natural concepts via illustrated stories . |
| 30 | Nevertheless his career reveals the strong point of a ‘ heroic ’ view of evil , the weak point of a Boethian one : if you regard evil as something internal , to be pitied , more harmful to the malefactor than the victim , you may be philosophically consistent but you may also be exposing others to sacrifices to which they have not consented ( like being murdered by Viking ravagers or , as The Lord of the Rings was being written , being herded into gas-chambers ) . |