Example sentences of "the [noun sg] 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 trick was not to be rattled , but to ride along with them , at least some of the way . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Take a good rest ’ — well the heart was back to pounding instead of its previous maniacal thump , so time to press on . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Its wings were folded when the building collapsed and so the damage is mostly to the wing tips . |
| 10 | If the election were not to be held until May or June , would an announcement be made next time we have business questions ? |
| 11 | The cyclist was nowhere to be seen . |
| 12 | The decision was up to me . |
| 13 | Health Minister Brian Mawhinney , speaking at Stoke Mandeville Hospital he said the decision was down to the doctors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | the difficulty is not to be hidden — we ourselves have no right to hide it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ’ Grunte felt relieved that the responsibility was not to be thrust upon him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ So what d' you think the Admiral was up to ? |
| 21 | At first they never went round The Courts ; the route was always to the outskirts and to where houses had gardens , small or large . |
| 22 | So the fight is on to save ship building on Tyneside . |
| 23 | In this year the course was back to full length and the closure of Peppard helped swell the membership , especially of the Artisans . |
| 24 | While most of the cases which were decided under the heading of gross negligence would be decided the same way under reckless manslaughter , from cases such as Lamb , above , manslaughter by gross negligence may survive despite Lord Roskill 's statement in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R that the term was not to be used . |
| 25 | As far as the conditions of voting were concerned , the 40s. freehold vote was to be retained in the counties , but in the boroughs the vote was everywhere to be offered to the £10 householder , the man who occupied — either as owner or tenant of one landlord buildings of an annual value of £10 . |
| 26 | The album was originally to be called ‘ The Hand That Rocks The Cradle ’ but there was a last minute rethink at Rough Trade . |
| 27 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 28 | Citrine was happy to tell them , in the traditional ( if somewhat imprecise ) formula , that the industry was now to be operated in the national interest and not for private gain . |
| 29 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 30 | If the instrument is only to be an indicator of magnetic activity then calibration is not really necessary . |