Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This improvement in standards can only be put down to cellar training . |
| 7 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Every militiaman in Lebanon should perhaps be taken up to the Dog River to see these memorials to pride and power . |
| 10 | A further questionnaire will shortly be sent out to piloting centres . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In a normal cat , ears flattened to this degree would already be twisted round to the rear . |
| 21 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 22 | However , it necessary , his argument can easily be traced back to Freud . |
| 23 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
| 24 | The procedure can , of course , easily be handed over to a computer . |
| 25 | More faces can easily be loaded on to a machine , like stocking a larder with exotic ingredients . |
| 26 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 27 | Today when the primacy of history above all else — the economic , even class conflict — is asserted within a Marxist discourse , together with an accompanying defence of humanism , it can usually be traced back to a Marxism of a Sartrean existentialist form . |
| 28 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 29 | A hive-up of the business from Target to Newco is normally in consideration of payment by Newco to Target , which will usually be loaned back to Newco and left outstanding on inter-company loan account . |
| 30 | The persistent failures can always be traced back to the original false premise that all existence is controlled by an undefined and unassailable ‘ god ’ . |