Example sentences of "the [noun] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 2 | The Sechem were nowhere to be seen , and Jehan wondered if they knew what was going on . |
| 3 | During the day , the Acropolis is not to be missed and souvenirs can be bartered for in the Flea market . |
| 4 | The Prince was not to be persuaded . |
| 5 | The mines were dangerous , the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor . |
| 6 | The trick was not to be rattled , but to ride along with them , at least some of the way . |
| 7 | ‘ And I think the sufficiency of the sentence is never to be called in question , nor any inquiry to be made here into the reasons of the deprivation . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , ’ said Liz , ‘ I 'd better go and see what the butlers are up to . |
| 9 | ‘ Take a good rest ’ — well the heart was back to pounding instead of its previous maniacal thump , so time to press on . |
| 10 | If , by virtue of the above , proceedings may be commenced in either court , the choice of court will be influenced by the following considerations : ( 1 ) where the case is eventually to be tried , ie whether in the High Court or in the county court — separate rules for each , set out below , apply ; ( 2 ) whether the county court has jurisdiction to grant the relief being sought ( see Chapter 2 ) ; ( 3 ) whether the county court has jurisdiction to enforce the judgment to be obtained ( see Chapter 2 ) ; and ( 4 ) the risk of being struck out or penalised in disallowance of costs if proceedings which are clearly suitable for one court are brought instead in the other ( see below ) . |
| 11 | Its wings were folded when the building collapsed and so the damage is mostly to the wing tips . |
| 12 | The Germans are more to be trusted with maintaining the value of European money than would be a Central Bank with votes for inflationary countries like Greece , Britain or Italy . |
| 13 | When Cardinal Wolsey fell , he had n't finished the building of Tom Quad , the whole of this side was left open because he 'd planned a very grand perpendicular chapel like King 's College Chapel , and erm the ruins , well no , not the ruins , the foundations were still to be seen apparently in the 17th Century John Gomley tells us . |
| 14 | The difference was that although the three ploughs were alleged to have been laid up , ‘ the houses are up to now standing and occupied ’ ; precisely what Greville had done is obscure , but whatever it was it had undoubtedly achieved a dramatic increase in productivity without uprooting the tenants . |
| 15 | The resale of the houses was also to be only to them . |
| 16 | Make sure the plans are up to date and include all buildings . |
| 17 | If the election were not to be held until May or June , would an announcement be made next time we have business questions ? |
| 18 | The cyclist was nowhere to be seen . |
| 19 | The decision was up to me . |
| 20 | Health Minister Brian Mawhinney , speaking at Stoke Mandeville Hospital he said the decision was down to the doctors . |
| 21 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 22 | the difficulty is not to be hidden — we ourselves have no right to hide it . |
| 23 | For them the difficulty was not to change from Latin but to move from the language of the Prayer Book to that of the ASB . |
| 24 | An exclusion of liability for negligence in a consumer contract was held unreasonable at first instance in Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported where a clause in a contract for the processing of photographs provided that in the event of loss the processor was only to be liable for the value of the unprocessed material . |
| 25 | ’ Grunte felt relieved that the responsibility was not to be thrust upon him . |
| 26 | The skills are there to be bought : the problem is that many farmers have an exaggerated notion of the kind of worker that they can obtain for the money they are willing to offer , as well as an outdated conception of what the farm worker 's skills would fetch in industry . |
| 27 | Perhaps the punishment of the wrong-doers was just to be finished , kaput , over ? |
| 28 | In this sense it is an addictive illness although , unlike other addictions such as drug taking , the sufferer is not to be blamed for having allowed herself to become addicted . |
| 29 | ‘ So what d' you think the Admiral was up to ? |
| 30 | The Smallwoods were off to Oxfordshire . |