Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 2 | Just to say that we do monitor the numbers going into , to residential care very very closely so we would we would be able to tell sort of reasonably early in the year if things were going erm way of our projections of our predictions and er we would obviously be coming back to you to see to er to change our budgets erm if , if that proved necessary . |
| 3 | Also , the insurers will not necessarily cover all your customers and those that they do cover may only be covered up to a certain amount . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , in view of the dangers and discomforts of a life at sea , the navy could still only be kept up to strength by the press gang , but everyone did his best to obstruct the activities of the pressmaster , as one , writing from Hull on 13 May 1694 , made all too clear : |
| 5 | Such task analysis can only be carried out to some cost-effective limit beyond which the skilled operator must be trusted to get things right by applying his broad expertise . |
| 6 | This could only be leading up to one thing : when are you going to marry my daughter ? |
| 7 | Due to jamming , however , the tether could initially only be wound out to some 230 metres and , although it was subsequently freed , another attempt was cancelled to avoid the risk of having to jettison the Italian Space Agency satellite which had been safely recovered . |
| 8 | The standards and safety measures now required for the care of the elderly and disabled mean that houses used , for example , as Cheshire Homes , can only be brought up to current standards at inordinate expense and involving radical alteration of the historic interiors . |
| 9 | This improvement in standards can only be put down to cellar training . |
| 10 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 11 | A change in Eisenhower 's thinking on the USSR can perhaps be traced back to the visit by Churchill and Eden at the end of June 1954 . |
| 12 | Every militiaman in Lebanon should perhaps be taken up to the Dog River to see these memorials to pride and power . |
| 13 | A further questionnaire will shortly be sent out to piloting centres . |
| 14 | Dr Susan Blackmore , of the Brain and Perception Laboratory of the University of Bristol , suggests that a group of babies be trained to use a ‘ baby-operated tape player ’ invented by Tom Troscianko and herself , which will shortly be released on to the market . |
| 15 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 16 | Brownies who will soon be moving up to Guides have a brand new magazine to look forward to . |
| 17 | Emphasis is put on the fact that learned skills such as shorthand are never forgotten and can soon be brought back to the standard required . |
| 18 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 19 | The ultimate origin of our seven-day week and the restrictions for long imposed on Sunday activities can thus be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 20 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 21 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 23 | You 'd best be getting back to your own house now . ’ |
| 24 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 25 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 26 | Granted the rich diversity of the phenomena of the biological world , a disagreement over results can generally be put down to differences between animals ( ‘ species or strain differences ’ , for instance ) or to subtle alterations in experimental conditions , and can therefore be fudged or ignored . |
| 27 | I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought … |
| 28 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 29 | In a normal cat , ears flattened to this degree would already be twisted round to the rear . |
| 30 | Though Mel Brooks 's Spaceballs is principally a take-off of Star Wars , its opening march-past shot of an apparently endless spaceship , ever so slowly passing the camera , all lumps , bumps and ‘ functional ’ excrescences , could just as easily be harking back to 2001 . |