Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now recognised by staff that much of the apprehension and anxiety can be traced back to lack of communication and Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) discusses the development of different approaches to rectify the situation , drawing distinctions between information-giving , patient teaching or education , and counselling . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm surprised she did n't put in a gold locket or something , or a precious necklace that could be traced back to royalty , or the aristocracy , or the Sultan of Kashmir , or the Pope . ’ |
| 3 | Was the uninterrupted growth and full employment of the '50s and '60s partly due to a belief ( which can be traced back to World War II ) that demand management would prevent mass unemployment if it ever showed signs of recurring ? |
| 4 | Government agencies , local communities and conservation groups have agreed that 24 square kilometres of the former swamp should be given over to conservation and tourism . |
| 5 | Mr Tennant said : ‘ In the case of Burnfoot 100 per cent of hill land will be given over to forestry . |
| 6 | The Inland Revenue will merely oversee the process under which thousands of properties will be given over to estate agents to lump into the banding system . |
| 7 | The independent authority 's direct responsibility would be given back to government . |
| 8 | To facilitate the mass launch , most of Wasp 's Wildcats had to be flown off to loiter overhead . |
| 9 | The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting . |
| 10 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 11 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 12 | I hold that on an appeal to the High Court under the Children Act 1989 the only findings of fact and the only reasons that may be relied on to support the decision of the justices under appeal , are those announced by the justices in accordance with rule 21 . |
| 13 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 14 | In the following Experiment 2.3 various colours were used to test how far the eye can be relied on to judge backgrounds in the circumstances under which the eventual instrument would be used . |
| 15 | But where the pre-existing obligation is a contractual duty owed to a third party , some other ground of public policy must be relied on to invalidate the consideration ( if otherwise legal ) … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was no major saint-cult which could be relied on to bolster episcopal power . |
| 18 | The object of the executors ' year is to protect the personal representatives from demands for immediate payment but it is not to be relied on to cover undue delay in dealing with the estate . |
| 19 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 20 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 21 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Helen who had been there years and years , knew all the ropes , could be relied on to deal tactfully with difficult customers , with the intransigence of the county library system , with errant books and tiresome children . |
| 24 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 25 | She had an eye for talent which they respected , she knew how to pick her designers , and could be relied on to spot a trend developing and to promote it . |
| 26 | Free-scoring Ally McCoist has a modest international record — only 13 goals from 43 games — and no-one else can be relied on to fire the bullets . |
| 27 | In Colombia , many of the peasants were persuaded to give up their coffee and cocoa trees , which though not highly productive , could be relied on to produce and , instead , to take up seasonal crops such as corn , soybeans and tomatoes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The plan stresses that new land for development has to be located close to transport routes , have access to water and draining facilities and be attractive to businesses . |
| 30 | That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice . |