Example sentences of "[unc] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 just by way of comparison for rough guidance that there is a regulation or or something like that which says , if I remember rightly , that erm er payments must not be made for either services or goods not supplied above a figure of two thousand pounds without er being taken to committee first .
2 Attempting to do research on the interview per se is doomed to failure because the skills of the actors will dominate the success or otherwise of the proceedings .
3 The Metro station just down from Gosforth Park er was flooded to platform level .
4 But even until ooh when , I , I can remember my daughter when she er was going to university .
5 Accused of a conflict of interest between its headhunting business and other functions , Peat 's were subjected to investigation by the American governing body for accountants , with the result that they decided to turn down headhunting work for their existing accounting clients .
6 The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner .
7 In Britain 11 per cent of those aged 65 + are admitted to hospital annually , approximately half the American rate .
8 Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 .
9 Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 .
10 There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring .
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