Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all poems are sufficiently lyrical , and they may be overburdened with wordy information : This kind poetry is far too prolix to be successfully set to music . |
| 2 | Do you want to be slowly battered to death , before dying in agony ? ’ |
| 3 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 4 | COHSE says trusts and units are joining a ‘ lemming-like rush ’ to abandon their current systems in favour of job evaluation , despite scant proof that the system works effectively or can be properly adapted to nursing . |
| 5 | The directory will be widely distributed to advice centres and tenants groups and it is hoped that other agencies such as local police stations will be interested in obtaining copies . |
| 6 | But the Ragdoll , lacking these responses , could be literally loved to death by unthinking children . |
| 7 | Public opinion would demand that schoolchildren be moved to safe areas ; a serious raid on a school would be highly damaging to morale . |
| 8 | Mr Berge 's special brand of anarchy seems to be particularily suited to capitalism . |
| 9 | Had he not been followed as a Surrey opener by Jack Hobbs , then perhaps he would be better known to posterity . |
| 10 | The Amiga is already supported by a large body of games software which can be easily transferred to CD-ROM for sale to CDTV owners . |
| 11 | Note that the package name must be already known to LIFESPAN and you must be its manager . |
| 12 | I hope he will not be permanently lost to tennis . |
| 13 | Ball and Lacey , for instance , have pointed to the tendency of non-specialist English teachers to be more attracted to transmission pedagogies than their specialist counterparts are . |
| 14 | At the end of November , when the shoots should be about 1 — 1–1/4in high , the bulbs can be gradually acclimatised to living room conditions . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that Labour 's proposals for a national minimum wage may seem superficially attractive but would be deeply damaging to business , particularly small business , and to job prospects ? |
| 16 | He understands and would be totally committed to tourism if he got into office . ’ |
| 17 | This means that total withdrawals will be directly related to income and when plotted against income on a graph will be an upward-sloping line with a slope equal to the sum of the marginal propensity to save and the marginal propensity to import . |
| 18 | In Galloway , for example , the reduced breeding performance of golden eagles is considered to be directly related to afforestation due to loss of open moorland which is their main feeding area . |
| 19 | However , the assumption that productivity must be directly related to biomass or chlorophyll is a fallacy . |
| 20 | However , it is harder to see why age should be directly related to poverty in the years after retirement . |
| 21 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 22 | An American report found heart rate to be positively related to blood glucose ( Stamler et al , 1975 ) . |
| 23 | The pragmatic theories we have examined leave a number of unanswered questions , and they are in need of considerable extension before they can be fruitfully applied to discourse analysis and language teaching . |
| 24 | ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’ |
| 25 | Only a Tzarina can wield it and if any man were even to touch the blade he would be instantly frozen to death . |
| 26 | For example , whether or not subheadings ( possibly numbered ) should be used will be partly related to length ; they will certainly be of benefit in any text longer than 500 words . |
| 27 | Imitation is another ; this is when one coin imitates another datable coin or other artefact , or vice versa , as in the case of some early Roman coins which were imitated on pottery that can be independently dated to 285–265BC . |
| 28 | Confronting explicitly collectivist opponents for the first time , the Conservative party , so Fforde contends , stressed the values of the free market , turned to the classical economists to justify non-intervention , and revealed themselves to be doctrinally committed to individualism . |
| 29 | All your efforts can be painlessly printed to paper with superb control of the layout . |
| 30 | To overcome this problem corals can be hydrothermally converted to calcium phosphate , producing an implant material with a chemical composition closer to natural bone while retaining the open porosity of the original coral . |