Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it be welfare , gas bills , housing , you name it and we 're in there fighting to , to keep them above the water , their heads above the water . |
| 2 | No staff room or loo or anything I think we 're at least entitled to the odd bun ! |
| 3 | The offence is committed whether or not the incitement is effective , but it must be at least communicated to the person incited . |
| 4 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 5 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 6 | The nature of the parliamentary peerage had been fixed by 1450 ; certain peers were by then entitled to a summons . |
| 7 | Her wrists were by now fastened to the post , and she was helpless . |
| 8 | He looked around for an implement to use and although his eyes were by now accustomed to the gloom he could see nothing suitable . |
| 9 | Well the Australians are at least trying to did n't have much success apparently |
| 10 | All the main characters appear , or are at least referred to , in all the stories — the village is small . |
| 11 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 12 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 13 | I 'm dealing with two estates where no will has been made and the house was in the name of husband alone who died without a will and the net result is that on on law on intestacy neither of the those surviving widows is of right entitled to the house and in both cases there are children and as you can imagine there is a certain amount of anguish about it . |
| 14 | But what they have done is something quite unprecedented in my view and that is to actually write to the Secretary of State and say to him do not exercise your rights to call this matter in to consider beside or above th the County Planning Authority . |
| 15 | In the media which are also visual , a range of resources — physical appearance and the effective means of non-verbal communication — is at least added to the written or recorded form , and the effect is often more than addition ; it is a change of dimension which appears to restore presence , which for the alternative advantages of record and durability writing systems had moved away from . |
| 16 | How much support and practical help you will get from your local Social Services Department varies from area to area , but everyone is at least entitled to one third of a pint of free milk each day for each child you mind . |
| 17 | The survivor 's bone marrow is by now reduced to ashes and the pre-harvested marrow is reinjected into the pelvis . |
| 18 | Leavis himself is by now reduced to an expression of gratitude for the letters page of The Times in " the world of triumphant modernity , the world of power centres from which the quantity-addicted machinery of civilization is controlled , directed and exploited " and in which " literature in the old sense has ceased to matter " Henceforth the conception of English as a central force for sustaining the national cultural " heritage " would become largely the property of the right . |
| 19 | Fenella told me , breathily and all excited , that they were going to operate and we 'd all have to leave , but it was all right really because Salome 's mum ( who was ever so nice ) had turned up having been called by Frank and was in there talking to the surgeons . |
| 20 | This statue , now in Kunst Historishche Museum in Vienna , was until recently believed to be the Roman statue found at Magdalensberg in the sixteenth century and as such the only complete Roman statue ever found north of the Alps . |
| 21 | They were sent away in turn in 1927 and No. 17 was at once declared to be beyond economic repair . |
| 22 | I was at once despatched to X-ray , and there in a different NHS nightshirt , things took their confirmatory course . |
| 23 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 24 | So if you like your original objective was at least get to there , then you can take stock . |
| 25 | Cobham , however , smacked too much of the schoolroom , having already achieved distinction as a writer about confession : learning , especially when tainted by theological or pastoral concern , was by now seen to be a dangerous thing in an archbishop . |