Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various techniques have been developed to respond to the problem of incomplete crime statistics , of which ‘ victim surveys ’ and ‘ self-report ’ studies are the most common . |
| 2 | A coalition of national and regional bodies servicing networks of community and voluntary sector groups has been formed to respond to the phasing out of the Urban Programme . |
| 3 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 4 | As a result , thousands of Japanese tourists are expected to flock to the house in which Wordsworth wrote some of his best work . |
| 5 | THOUSANDS of fun-seekers from all over the province are expected to flock to the north west this weekend for a thrilling double bill of the North West 200 and the International Air Show . |
| 6 | Crowds of rail enthusiasts are expected to flock to the Settle-Carlisle line today for the first public run along BR tracks of the steam locomotive Blue Peter . |
| 7 | A contract which covers the programme of work will be agreed between student and supervisor and students are expected to adhere to the contract so far as is practicable . |
| 8 | A contract which covers the programme of community involvement will be agreed between student and supervisor and students are expected to adhere to the contract as far as is practicable . |
| 9 | Initial deliveries are expected to go to the other announced PowerPC allies , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Thomson-CSF SA , Harris Corp and Tadpole Technology Plc , with Apple taking the lion 's share . |
| 10 | Cult move FOUR children rescued in raids on the Family of Love cult in Argentina are expected to go to the United States with their American mother , who was freed without charge , the Foreign Office said . |
| 11 | The CRE 's findings and recommendations are expected to go to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , for approval and action if its inquiry upholds complaints that the region 's methods may be in breach of race relations and education law for failing to test in a child 's first language . |
| 12 | Where it employs professional musicians full- or part-time it should ensure that their salaries take account of their training and qualifications as well as of the time and contribution which they are expected to give to the worship . |
| 13 | Few of those artists are expected to return to the island soon . |
| 14 | The surface is not subdivided in any way : cyclists are expected to keep to the left and to have consideration for walkers . |
| 15 | Foreign financial institutions are expected to contribute to the project and an Israeli company will provide technical assistance . |
| 16 | We live in a ‘ market economy ’ and many one time ‘ command economies ’ are endeavouring to change to the same arrangements . |
| 17 | Aircraft embracing decades of RAF endeavour had been expected to take to the skies — from Spitfires and Hurricanes to Tornados and Jaguars . |
| 18 | It has been designed to respond to the rapid growth of banking and financial services both within the regions and at national and international level , and the increasing demand from banks , insurance companies , building societies and other financial institutions for relevant graduates . |
| 19 | The later levels ( 8–15 ) have been designed to correspond to the seven GCSE grade levels . |
| 20 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 21 | The Chinese hominoid has been claimed to belong to the pongine clade , but the characters are of doubtful significance , for example the enlarged maxillary sinus , which may be an ancestral hominid character , or the size discrepancy between central and lateral incisors , which , although correct , is linked with an extremely low crowned and heavily buttressed morphology . |
| 22 | Les Halles had not , however , been built to add to the city 's entertainments ; they had a severely practical purpose in which light , air , and water for cleanliness were the key elements , plus , of course , ease of access . |
| 23 | With Britain 's roads becoming more crowded and dangerous , cyclists are looking to escape to the countryside in the Forest of Dean . |
| 24 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 25 | Over the past few years tremendous efforts have been made to explain to the outside world just what the Olefines business is all about and the reasons for flaring . |
| 26 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 27 | They have failed to endorse the Australian move and are refusing to contribute to the compensation fund . |
| 28 | More plausibly , both males and females are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed , and it was this aspect of toad lore that Dr Chris Reading of Furzebrook Research Station of Dorset and Drs Jon Loman and Thomas Madsen of the University of Lund in Sweden set out to investigate ( Journal of Zoology , vol. 225 , pp201–11 ) . |
| 29 | If two initially rather different cues are made to adhere to the same name or to closely similar names , then rather than being stretched apart the two cues might be forced closer together . |
| 30 | In these cases we are instructed to refer to the Adjudication Officer for a decision on whether the claim to benefit should be allowed or disallowed . |