Example sentences of "be [verb] [indef pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 2 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 3 | It would be nice to imagine the reader , having ingested the reader , having ingested the above , musing , ‘ Oh , I never thought of that ’ — which is , after all , the response elicited by all cultural commentators — but I have no illusions that I 'm teaching anything to the individual or individuals responsible for the original design . |
| 4 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 6 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 7 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 8 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 9 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 10 | The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 . |