Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for , generally speaking , life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital . |
| 2 | As he has no theoretical framework and no fundamental economic background , he is limited essentially to extrapolation of short-term clusters of newsworthy items , as seen through the eyes of newspaper editors and reporters . |
| 3 | The tail of the electric eel contains 10 000 tiny electric organs , arranged in 70 columns , and over half of the fish is given over to electricity production . |
| 4 | The evening is given over to mission experience through film or slides , then night prayer followed by a social evening . |
| 5 | Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture . |
| 6 | An inordinate proportion of this slender book is given over to digression and quotation ( including a graceful , tongue-in-cheek , tribute to The Economist ) . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that most space is given over to circulation and parking , with special provision made for particular needs ( Figure 6.45 ) , the area is still overwhelmed by the sheer volume of parked vehicles . |
| 8 | Do not be concerned that a part of your day is given up to relaxation and leisure . |
| 9 | It is considered better to work , over a period of time , with the family as well as the child , providing whatever support , training or care appear to be appropriate at different stages of development . |
| 10 | She is expected soon to hand down a ruling . |
| 11 | Hotel is located close to Spaghetti Junction and includes 35 rooms all with TV , tea and coffee making facilities . |
| 12 | The only way to town is come up to way |
| 13 | The image is transferred on to paper by a conventional xerographic printing process . |
| 14 | This information is transferred directly to water HQ . |
| 15 | When it takes over your life , you know , anything that happens to you is related back to food whether it 's you know , connected or not , that is when it becomes an eating problem . |
| 16 | A marked theme is selected specifically to foreground a particular element as the topic of the clause or its point of departure . |
| 17 | Hooligans go through the motions of violence but relatively little damage is done either to property or to the person . |
| 18 | In addition a sky wave is reflected back to earth over large distances . |
| 19 | A log file ‘ QA_USER.LOG ’ for the specified Approver is opened in the approver 's directory and the approver is logged on to LIFESPAN . |
| 20 | This is offered only to Institute members for any of the titles published by Executive Grapevine . |
| 21 | For a long time these two between them do most of the Equity work , though the Court of Exchequer has also developed an Equity jurisdiction , an ‘ Equity side ’ , which , however , is handed over to Chancery in 1842 : it is now administered by the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court . |
| 22 | In some language schools it is possible to give the camera a different function : it is handed over to student groups to be used as a tool in project work . |
| 23 | Under this , money is handed out to industry to finance up to half the cost of individual research projects . |
| 24 | It is not all in weapons ; as much as 100 tonnes of Russian HEU is used simply to power ships and submarines . |
| 25 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 26 | They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) . |
| 27 | In certain extreme circumstances , Her Majesty may find herself in a position in which she is called on to use her discretion in making a political decision . |
| 28 | This was Adieu , which John described as ‘ a sadly romantic story of a nymph , whose lover is called away to war ’ . |
| 29 | Diane Whiteley is superb as the good little girlfriend who is egged on to display her wares by her pathetic lover . |
| 30 | Each voter has two votes — one is used to elect half of the Bundestag seats in single member constituencies , and the other is apportioned proportionally to party lists across each region ( in effect , treating the region as a party list multi-member constituency ) . |