Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where corporate information is revealed legitimately to an underwriter , accountant , lawyer , or consultant working for the corporation , these outsiders may become fiduciaries of the shareholders … [ they do not actively solicit or acquire inside information ] but rather they have entered into a special confidential relationship in the conduct of the business of the enterprise and are given access to information solely for corporate purposes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 4 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 5 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |
| 6 | In T. axei the eggs are arranged pole to pole longitudinally . |
| 7 | But legal aid experts argue that low income and capital limits are denying access to justice to increasing numbers of people who can not afford to pay privately . |
| 8 | say the increase in gas-fired power stations means traditional coal ones are becoming surplus to requirements . |
| 9 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 10 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 11 | A £1m five-year research project into the effects of atmospheric pollutants on forest and crops has suggested that pollutant gases in the atmosphere are causing damage to trees by triggering aphid attacks . |
| 12 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 13 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 14 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 15 | The RAF who 're delivering aid to Sarajevo know all too well of the risks . |
| 16 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 17 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 18 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 19 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The local firms are heading west to Chicago as part of a unique joint-venture trade mission organised by the Industrial Development Board and its counterpart in the Republic , the Irish Trade Board . |
| 22 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 23 | And then later he had been bound apprentice to Ninereeds the Masteraccount , who in his grey-mindedness was everything that dragons were not , and there was no time for dreaming . |
| 24 | We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them . |
| 25 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 26 | I mean , I think a lot of national organisations that are giving , I trust that are giving money to people actually do want to know that sort of detail about where the money is going , because , if I go through this , I mean , I would have to say that I should imagine that a very small percentage of the money that has been collected on these flag days will actually get back into Oxfordshire . |
| 27 | All seas towards the moon are giving rise to tides . |
| 28 | ‘ People are giving lip-service to security and are hell-bent on therapy above anything else . ’ |
| 29 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 30 | My Lords , is the Minister that nearly half of all surgical units are cutting back on operations a third are giving priority to patients of G P fund holders and more than half of the N H S Trust er er have a facing a steep rise in emergency admissions of the G Ps that as they fight to get beds for their patients . |