Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In daylight they are only to be seen from ships at sea , when the two smaller petrels appear all dark birds with white rumps as they flutter and dance across the waves . |
| 2 | Sir William ) Clarke , a solicitor , on condition they were not to be shown to anyone without the consent of himself and the syndicate . |
| 3 | As a result he is down to 7-1 third favourite for the Champion and the way he is improving he could end up shorter still . |
| 4 | Since Philip was challenging Henry II 's right to hold Alice , Brittany and the Vexin it was up to him to take the initiative . |
| 5 | Supported with some powerful sound effects and swelling music , this rare treat it has toured Europe and north America , and after the Phoenix it is off to Africa , so catch it while you can . |
| 6 | Gram for gram it is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and on average three times sweeter than aspartame . |
| 7 | From now on ignorance will be no excuse and if a doctor gives a pill or an injection it is up to each player to make sure it 's not on the list of banned medicines . |
| 8 | For rock it 's off to the beach — in our case probably Skegness which carries a wide variety of large pebbles of many geological types . |
| 9 | Then it 's that person 's prerogative it 's up to him if he wants to show everyone else where the water is . |
| 10 | Very little very few apprentices were sacked unless through misdemeanour or anything but if you done your work you were there to as long as you you liked . |
| 11 | In rugby we 're down to the last eight … in the Pilkington Cup … which means Gloucester are two matches away from Twickenham … they 've got a game on their hands tomorrow though … away to first division leaders Orrell |
| 12 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 13 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 14 | Mr. Croucher replied that under the present law it was up to the applicant to notify other people of their intention in writing . |
| 15 | There 's and there 's a big sign on the water heater it 's not to be used ! |
| 16 | At the moment I 'm up to my neck in the Camden Town murder . ’ |
| 17 | Although at the moment it is up to you to decide what form of updating you would like to undertake , it would be useful to look at any developments in your area aimed at your special interest , and to find out from employers what they might expect from you in advance of offering you a job . |
| 18 | This is a Labour amendment it is up to them now to implement it implement it within existing budgets is what it says and we shall see whether they take their responsibilities as seriously as they should . |
| 19 | come here , got to oh Marie no good job it was n't to it . |
| 20 | Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party . |
| 21 | In the evening it was off to the Scottish Crofters Union Annual Dinner . |
| 22 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 23 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 24 | At this point it is up to the host organization to nurture further development of the idea . |
| 25 | In educational drama it is up to the teacher to create and build the tension . |
| 26 | In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue . |
| 27 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 28 | Lassa Java and Ringa Hustle … tomorrow night they 're off to wimbledon the track not the tennis courts for the Greyhound Derby … it 's the biggest race of the year … there 's 40,000 pounds for the winner … millions will be bet … it 's the grand national of the greyhound world … |
| 29 | El Cid replied , modestly , that he was only equal to one man at a time , and that as for the rest it was up to God . |
| 30 | We have excellent navigation equipment but on the day it is back to basics . |