Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from these vehicles are given freely to other nations in a global system coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation . |
| 2 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 3 | If pain and other symptoms were being so badly managed these patients should have been referred promptly to other health care professionals who might have been able to provide a better quality of analgesia . |
| 4 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 5 | In the very first experiments it became clear that , compared with ‘ control ’ birds that stayed in the dark or had been exposed simply to diffused overhead light , there was indeed increased synthesis of RNA in the roof region in the hours after training in birds which had been imprinted on the flashing light . |
| 6 | Some researchers maintain that many of these principles are genetically programmed , and it is this which explains how it is possible for speakers of the same language to develop similar and highly complex knowledge of their language , even though , in the normal language learning situation , they will have been exposed only to limited and random samples of speech . |
| 7 | Previous research related to memory for driving situations has been confined largely to exceptional situations ( e.g. actual accidents ) or memory for specific items ( e.g. road signs ) . |
| 8 | Women are confined both to lower-grade jobs ( vertical segregation ) , and to different jobs ( horizontal segregation ) . |
| 9 | Instead , they argue that the effects of a rising interest rate are transmitted indirectly to real expenditure decisions through the cost of borrowing , especially the cost of mortgage loans . |
| 10 | Sexuality , he pontificated , was one of ‘ the areas of social life that are revealed only to medical men , in the hope that they may be in a position to suggest some mode of relief ’ . |
| 11 | Both exchanges are looking ahead to increased used of ECU debt instruments as the single European financial space becomes a reality . |
| 12 | WITH the approach of Memorial Day , the official start of summer , all right-thinking Americans are looking forward to long days at the beach . |
| 13 | Sir Peter and the active and enthusiastic staff , led by Morag Barton , Museum Director , are looking forward to celebrating Brooklands ' 85th anniversary year in 1992 . |
| 14 | We are looking forward to positive outcomes in the next few months , and will keep everybody informed of the progress . |
| 15 | We are looking forward to ever-increasing production from our huge investments in the past few years and therefore , even if the oil price remains flat , to ever-increasing cash flow . |
| 16 | Most have been applied mainly to stationary axisymmetric space-times . |
| 17 | Reference has been made above to unlawful sexual intercourse . |
| 18 | Standards of modesty are applied indiscriminately to sexual and defaecatory concepts . |
| 19 | This means it has been grown slowly to full maturity , fattened on food containing no animal protein and at least 70 per cent cereal , and reared without the use of any antibiotics or growth-promoting additives . |
| 20 | No thanks , I 'm trying to give them up : at IBM Corp , writes the Wall Street Journal , RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp chief executive Louis Gerstner ‘ may find some eerie parallels between RJS 's chief product , cigarettes , and IBM 's leading product , mainframes — both are high profit margin products with slumping sales that are sold mostly to long-time customers who ca n't break the habit , ’ it says . |
| 21 | The Conservative local associations are turning increasingly to young men of professional or business backgrounds for whom Parliament is a career . |
| 22 | When we add up all the indicators which show that we are moving closer to federal control , and balance them against the number which show that we are moving further away from central control , we are asking ourselves , what is the meaning of subsidiarity ? |
| 23 | Of course , there are no longer bawdy houses , where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs . |
| 24 | Local patients , investigators , and resources are known only to local people , and assessments must be made locally . |
| 25 | If it is difficult now to concur with the Bioscope reviewer 's judgement that the film ‘ surpasses in technical achievement anything of its kind ever made in Britain , and at times soars to heights of directorial brilliance ’ , it 's still possible to understand how an audience that had been accustomed only to silent films might warm to the various acts on display . |
| 26 | The market is also highly sensitive because trading volumes are running close to 10-year lows . |
| 27 | Modern methods of super-exploitation , tried and tested in the Third World , are coming home to industrialized countries . |
| 28 | The employment of indigenous paraprofessionals has been linked conceptually to worldwide efforts to promote local citizen participation in decision-making and action on their own behalf and a mechanism for developing or strengthening indigenous community leadership ( IASSW , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | The dangers inherent in the situation had been brought home to senior figures in the Reagan camp who had served in the Nixon administration . |
| 30 | European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance . |