Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big cup with the chipped handle had been filled almost to its brim with milky cocoa . |
| 2 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 3 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 4 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 5 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 6 | it is clear justice has already been meted out to you . |
| 7 | David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , told the House Mr Naqvi 's body had been flown in to Heathrow yesterday morning . |
| 8 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 9 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 10 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 11 | Theses are assigned exclusively to a single category in all of the above lists . |
| 12 | The second band , with its very long progression of vibrational peaks , is assigned to both the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the π u level , while the third and fourth bands are assigned respectively to the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the level ; both levels are expected to be strongly bonding , as suggested by the lower vibration frequencies of the ions . |
| 13 | Many of the industries are placed close to the docks ; they are port oriented . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | I am to report immediately to Personnel for redeployment . |
| 18 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 19 | Leapor often compliments other women in her poems , and two poems , ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ and ‘ Silvia and the Bee ’ , are given over to praising the beauty and the accomplishments of particular friends . |
| 20 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 21 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 22 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 23 | Visit Bodrum on market day , a lively occasion when whole streets are given over to selling spices or fruit , day old chicks or melons , and the most colourful variety of vegetables . |
| 24 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 25 | Data from these vehicles are given freely to other nations in a global system coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation . |
| 26 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 27 | Fuelling this propaganda are free supplies of birth control pills , capsules and IUDs are given out to Timorese who are used to paying a small fortune just to consult a doctor . |
| 28 | As Irish people are given naturally to speculating over ‘ CIA plots ’ , their excitement when real CIA security men arrived to safeguard the President can be imagined . |
| 29 | This ‘ Truman Doctrine ’ may have been intended primarily to ‘ scare ’ Congress into giving the required money . |
| 30 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |