Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both in Health and Education , the new Secretaries of State have the advantage that those they have to deal with on the shopfloor , so to speak , will know that the Government 's policies are now here to stay . |
| 2 | And plans are already underway to build a purporse built campus before the end of the decade . |
| 3 | With the acquisition of ERC Industries based in Houston , plans are now underway to develop its valve and wellhead manufacturing and servicing activities in the international market . |
| 4 | The ITN version suggests that the pickets are still largely to blame for the violence , but the police contribution to disorder is given more emphasis than in the BBC 's bulletin . |
| 5 | Words are n't enough to stop what 's happening between you . |
| 6 | Lina 's role was to persuade the Ashleys that journalists were not there to pry , but to promote . |
| 7 | Our appeal to our traditional supporters was not enough to outweigh our lack of success with those growing numbers who no longer count themselves as working class . |
| 8 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 9 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 10 | Charlie wondered if the comradeship that had bound such a disparate bunch of lads together during the past three months was quite enough to make them capable of joining combat with the elite of the German army . |
| 11 | Remember that simple waist belts are there mainly to stop the sack swaying around . |
| 12 | My only chance of glory is if the batsman is unsighted from the beginning , and our new sightscreens are there precisely to prevent that happening . |
| 13 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
| 14 | A comparison of the two texts is sometimes enough to establish how many copies of the new edition should be bought , and whether the previous edition should be retained or discarded — though it is a time-consuming process . |
| 15 | One common problem in assessing the effect of closing lines is how best to take account of the ‘ contributory revenue ’ that branch lines make to the main lines . |
| 16 | To explain the intellectual polarities by reference to historical contingencies is not necessarily to explain them away . |
| 17 | The counsellors are not there to tell any young person what to do though if they are asked for practical advice they will give it . |
| 18 | Three days were usually enough to secure a signed confession . |
| 19 | The obvious questions for churchmen were how best to improve order within the church and how to impress the church upon society . |
| 20 | Outside the sky is still overcast , and the murky yellow light that filters through the vertical louvres of the window blinds is hardly enough to read by . |
| 21 | Even if he had brought his kingship pure and intact back from Rome and launched a holy crusade such as apostles dream of , two years is not enough to sew a kingdom together . |
| 22 | If two years is n't enough to consider the proposals that my group have consistently put forward , I do n't know how long it 's . |
| 23 | Most carers have attachment and affection to sustain them ; recognising that the deepest levels of such feelings are not enough to see the process through , involves some grief . |
| 24 | Great strides have been made in recent years to offer greater choice and to personalise private rooms , but resources are never enough to provide the optimum living conditions for a comfortable and happy old age . |
| 25 | Efforts are now underway to form a treasure hunting club in the Chester area . |
| 26 | Studies are now underway to confirm our results in a larger number of patients and in different populations . |
| 27 | ‘ The figures are only here to prove one thing . |
| 28 | Mohamed Ali 's aims were not just to protect Egypt but to make her an expansionist power in the Eastern Mediterranean . |
| 29 | Here , since the word-meaning PLAYS is not enough to identify the target of the speaker 's attention , it is extended by a subordinate entity : the subordinate linguistic expression continues to identify its own entity even though it is present in order to assist in the identification of a different entity , which is specified by the expression as a whole . |
| 30 | What makes the researcher different is that the purpose of making these observations is not only to become a member of the group but also to write an account of its way of life . |