Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 2 | This has not been publicised elsewhere to date , and that is the one redeeming feature of this otherwise unwelcome and ill-considered arrangement . |
| 3 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 11 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 12 | Well obviously unemployment is very high in the North East and er all the major health indicators are related directly to income . |
| 13 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 14 | How do you withstand the the commercial pressures and the emotional pressures , the seventy three of you who are looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 15 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |
| 16 | Reference has been made above to citation peaks — the period during which the largest number of citations is recorded . |
| 17 | Tigers in southern China formerly supplied much of the demand , but they have now been hunted virtually to extinction . |
| 18 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 19 | You 're going straight to bed . |
| 20 | Often bad things happen after — you know , like you 're taken away to school , or they tell you someone died or summat like that . |
| 21 | Reared on The Eagles and James Taylor among others , the baby-boomers have been turning instead to country . |
| 22 | However even when frontiers are closed fast to Amnesty , information still gets out — via refugees or victims who have fled in fear , ‘ friendly ’ foreigners or nationals inside the country , church , trade union and human rights organizations , journalists or travellers , or from letters smuggled across the border . |
| 23 | The fact that youths from this category have been drawn increasingly to football since the 1960s is put down to possibilities offered for violence , as revealed by the mass media . |
| 24 | Rather than run the risk of financing lengthy bridging loans , employers are turning increasingly to specialist relocation companies which , through guaranteed home sale schemes , reduce the length of time necessary to sell an employee 's old property . |
| 25 | Comprehensive Mathematics for O-level was first published in 1983 and it has been reprinted twice to date . |
| 26 | 350,000 copies of Corel Draw for the PC have been sold worldwide to date and an Apple Mac version is scheduled for release later this year . |
| 27 | ‘ The horse is certainly in good heart and because we are drawn close to Lochsong we are on the side of the track with a strong pace guaranteed . |
| 28 | But that kind of dirty trick had been relegated firmly to history , and now Bergerac wines had a recognised and growing share of the market . |
| 29 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 30 | Equally bad from the point of view of damp exclusion in the circumstance of a breach appearing in the roof surface , and even worse in terms of the restrictions it places on the opportunities for salvaging slates in any wholesale reconditioning of the roof covering , is the arrangement in which the slates are nailed directly to boarding , no fixing battens having been incorporated . |