Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to report immediately to Personnel for redeployment . |
| 2 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 3 | This has not been publicised elsewhere to date , and that is the one redeeming feature of this otherwise unwelcome and ill-considered arrangement . |
| 4 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This antibody , which neutralises TNF α cytotoxicity on L929 cells and blocks TNF α induced MHC class I expression has been given therapeutically to humans suffering from septic shock , and is used to assay TNF α by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) . |
| 8 | After the stories of the last few chapters , since the point when the promises were first given , our confidence in Abraham 's reliability has been shaken nearly to pieces . |
| 9 | It says that the discharges from the plant , which is run by British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , are carried upstream to Preston on the incoming tide and deposited in mudflats used by children to play . |
| 10 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |
| 11 | So far , the debate about economic policy has been confined largely to technocrats and foreign advisers lodged in expensive hotels where one night costs around the average worker 's monthly wage . |
| 12 | A considerable research tradition was built up , and yet : " this tradition has been confined largely to studies of the comparative effectiveness of conventional procedures and selected types of so-called visual or audiovisual media in attaining the same objectives . " |
| 13 | It is true that the National Deaf Club attracted a few members from the provinces , but by and large , its membership has been confined mostly to London and its environs . |
| 14 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nothing of what I am going to attempt to say should in any way be read as denying the value of psychoanalysis nor as implying that the Church has not been , and continues to be , deeply misogynistic in ways that are damaging both to women and to the Church itself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 20 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 21 | Perhaps as many as 3,000 had been presented annually to Henry IV . |
| 22 | Well obviously unemployment is very high in the North East and er all the major health indicators are related directly to income . |
| 23 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 24 | How do you withstand the the commercial pressures and the emotional pressures , the seventy three of you who are looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 25 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |
| 26 | The word intellectual had been applied twice to O'Keeffe or her work in earlier criticism , but not without qualification . |
| 27 | A total of 50 European Child of Achievement Awards are presented annually to children up to the age of 16 . |
| 28 | Reference has been made above to citation peaks — the period during which the largest number of citations is recorded . |
| 29 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 30 | Tigers in southern China formerly supplied much of the demand , but they have now been hunted virtually to extinction . |