Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 2 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 3 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 4 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 5 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 6 | Now , however medieval my proclivities , my bills are bang up to date , so I waved a sheaf of payment slips at the ghosts of the carvers and they vanished . |
| 7 | Near to the time of operation specific measures are carried out to safeguard patients . |
| 8 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 9 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 10 | Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden . |
| 11 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 12 | The locals are turning back to wildlife and natural resources to survive . |
| 13 | This occurs when markets , previously served by the public sector monopolies and governed by regulations , are opened up to competition from the private sector . |
| 14 | And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies . |
| 15 | and they do some singing and everything and also they give out the bibles to those that are going up to school |
| 16 | ‘ We are going out to lunch , ’ Alain informed her , reading her expression with little difficulty . |
| 17 | Teachers are going back to university to learn how to teach the National Curriculum . |
| 18 | It should , in my opinion , only be in the rare cases where the very issue of interpretation which the courts are called on to resolve has been addressed in Parliamentary debate and where the promoter of the legislation has made a clear statement directed to that very issue , that reference to Hansard should be permitted . |
| 19 | It reverts to being a dense moral imperium , so to speak , where to make themselves heard dissenters are called on to exhibit certain credentials . |
| 20 | If you are invited out to dinner and feel reluctant to accept because of your diet , do n't even hesitate . |
| 21 | THE FATHER OF WIMBLEDON COMMON MURDER VICTIM TELLS HOW HER FAMILY ARE FACING UP TO LIFE WITHOUT HER |
| 22 | As the legal experts pore over the intricacies of recording unmet need , care managers are getting down to work . |
| 23 | At last , Alida thought , at last we are getting down to business , to the signing of papers , the question of money . |
| 24 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 25 | We have both got arthritis in our hands and both our husbands are coming up to retirement age . |
| 26 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |
| 27 | Prisoners are brought up to date with new legislation that may affect them , such as housing and social security . |
| 28 | Teachers are asked to ensure that their entries for the new class lists are brought up to date by the end of July . |
| 29 | The appearance of such systems , often in advance of any Western equivalent , usually generates flurries of excitement , yet early versions tend to possess rudimentary capabilities , and effective variants may take considerable time to emerge as the component technologies are brought up to standard . |
| 30 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |