Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councils , argues Mr Cawley , are being hit by an unenviable double whammy , thanks to the recession and the Government 's response to it : tighter spending assessments and declining revenue income are adding insult to injury , with ordinary people bearing the brunt . |
| 2 | BUT WILL FERGIE AND HER ADVISER BE KISSING GOODBYE TO A PAY-OFF ? |
| 3 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 4 | If kindness is giving territory to the uniqueness of other people , then it also reflects an assured sense of one 's own identity . |
| 5 | The third way of producing a card is to present artwork to a printer and have it professionally reproduced . |
| 6 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 7 | It 's the fourth year running that the Tudor Manor is playing host to a mini opera season in the three hundred seater auditorium set up at the side of the house . |
| 8 | To focus upon the processes of characterization is to draw attention to the definition of act or event , and interaction between potential deviant and enforcement agent . |
| 9 | The loss is causing concern to Moscow doctors , who have warned that without the forest , the city 's air pollution problems will increase . |
| 10 | I therefore approach Labour 's declared commitment to a nuclear-based defence policy with great scepticism . |
| 11 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 12 | The state of goth — as catch-all historical movement for the too-ugly and the too-grim and as a modern phenom — is given little credence by UK Decay , the ridiculous Virgin Prunes , the talentless and misguided Christian Death , The Neff 's rubbish psychobilly and the new blood 's slavering adherence to the Sisters Of Mercy songbook ( eg Rosetta Stone , James Ray , Nosferatu ) . |
| 13 | Thus in [ 12 ] the hearer is given access to the entry for SPRINT . |
| 14 | One of the processes of digestion is to reduce food to a substance which can be absorbed in the bloodstream as sugar . |
| 15 | He believes that Signet has given his firm a competitive advantage — ‘ a major part of our practice is providing advice to all types of businesses and the sophistication of our system helps us to service our clients ’ needs more efficiently ’ . |
| 16 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 17 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 18 | Garrucho 's resignation , a public illustration of disunity within the Ramos administration , fuelled growing rumours that the government was racked by conflicts , despite the new President 's repeated commitment to teamwork . |
| 19 | But cricket club president Brian Kneeshaw stressed the move did not alter his club 's stated opposition to parting with the land , described by a local councillor as ‘ the jewel in Middlesbrough 's crown ’ . |
| 20 | Graham rated Dixon , who scored an own goal against Coventry in last season 's corresponding game , as Arsenal 's man-of-the-match in Monday 's 2–1 win at Crystal Palace , a result which increased the club 's winning run to five successive League games . |
| 21 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 22 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 23 | The object of the first chapter was to draw attention to the basic oddity of the stratigraphical record in that particular facies were remarkably widespread during particular periods of geological time . |
| 24 | The legislative intention was to give rise to a charge whenever there was a change in the proportion of the settled property in which any participator was deemed to be entitled , whether the change had arisen on death , or on termination of the interest , or on a disposition or deemed disposition . |
| 25 | But scientists began to realize that the industry was giving birth to a serious pollution hazard . |
| 26 | Valerie Langer and Garth Lenz of Vancouver Island 's Friends of Clayoquot South are drawing attention to Canada 's plans to clear-fell 88 per cent of its ancient boreal and temperate forest . |
| 27 | Erm could I suggest that er that the incoming committee be given authority to erm obtain erm audited accounts and to approve those accounts on on your behalf when available ? |
| 28 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 29 | Sections of 5 µm thickness were cut perpendicular to the mucosal surface . |
| 30 | Most of non-statutory work is giving advice to people like control , and others , which may not be purely statutory in the sense that is , but the major difference is there 's a time when it 's imposed on when we have to do it . |