Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONSERVATIONISTS are opposing the extension to a large limestone quarry which they claim would damage irrevocably the Mendip Hills in Somerset . |
| 2 | THE NEW generation of personal computers that plug into company computer-networks are proving a boon to computer spies . |
| 3 | Just think of what that has done to the system there and to all the other applicants who have been seeking help from a Department that tries to ensure that people are given the awards to which they are entitled . |
| 4 | And we heard some figures about G P's , ninety two percent of those G P's who 've got their own budgets are seeing the benefits to their patients and their patients are saying so as well . |
| 5 | ‘ They are using the computer to gauge who would be suitable to attend certain meetings : they may want to exclude some of them . ’ |
| 6 | This filtering process can be applied as soon as data becomes available if necessary , since all components are using the Chart to post results . |
| 7 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 8 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 9 | The groups of organisms described have certain special peculiarities that set them apart from all others , and once these features are recognized the group to which the fossil belongs can be confidently identified . |
| 10 | But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless . |
| 11 | He had been given a lift to the Bayswater Road by a mutual friend , Derek O'Connor . |
| 12 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 13 | The European Court of justice has been given the power to fine member states for having failed to comply with a Court judgment . |
| 14 | You 've been given an invitation to the most magnificent show in the world . |
| 15 | ( 12 August 1773 ) Later , having been given an extension to his leave by Colloredo , who was himself in Vienna in August , he again wrote : |
| 16 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |
| 17 | These nations are demanding an end to all trade in ivory . |
| 18 | Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine . |
| 19 | The implication was clear : vote Liberal Democrat and you are opening the door to hordes of squabbling Flemings and Walloons . |
| 20 | Since ancient times , the rowan tree has been considered a scourge to witches . |
| 21 | If concessive holists are to provide a solution to the problem of holism rather than a mere rule of thumb , they must justify their claim that holist and individualist explanations are , if not complementary , at least capable of coexistence . |
| 22 | The real difficulty has always been to find an alternative to the Hegelian dialectic — difficult because strictly speaking it is impossible , insofar as the operation of the dialectic already includes its negation . |
| 23 | If we are to find the answer to the problem of what gives stretches of language unity and meaning , we must look beyond the formal rules operating within sentences , and consider the people who use language , and the world in which it happens as well . |
| 24 | My stomach turned when I heard our ‘ Number One , ’ Cmdr Boord , announce over the broadcast system : ‘ We are to escort a convoy to Murmansk . |
| 25 | Since the intention of this chapter has been to provide an introduction to global tectonics and the major elements of the Earth 's morphology and structure , the suggested reading is mainly limited to texts which will be useful in providing more details on these topics . |
| 26 | It is clear that throughout the second half of 1184 Henry Ii had been seeking a solution to the problem of the succession . |
| 27 | Networking has also led to the rise of ‘ client-server ’ designs , where ‘ client ’ terminals , such as PCs , are fed the answers to questions by ‘ server ’ data-stores . |
| 28 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 29 | ‘ My visits to the church are to set an example to the brute population of Chiguana . |
| 30 | Irish authorities are to urge the US to be as flexible as possible over visas in a bid to maximise support for the Republic 's bid for World Cup glory . |