Example sentences of "are [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a committee might also help to satisfy those who are given to complaining about the choice of hymns . |
| 2 | We catch an echo of it however in that curiously possessive rather than patronizing way in which anthropologists are given to speaking of ‘ their people ’ ( just as the people sometimes speak of ‘ their anthropologist ’ ) . |
| 3 | These factors are particularly important as the best preventative maintenance service in the world can be seen as less than satisfactory , if oily , unkempt , poorly dressed engineers are given to camping out in your hotel lift lobby without warning and taking lifts out of service just as you are receiving a large influx of guests . |
| 4 | are joined to trembling drops |
| 5 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 6 | ‘ Soon those opulent manufacturers , whose ideas of supreme happiness at a spa are limited to taking their spotty wives and daughters to a moderately dear hotel , will be recalled to the smoke of their native places . |
| 7 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 8 | ( The court 's powers , however , are limited to remitting the decision to the secretary of state for reconsideration . ) |
| 9 | Tactical options are limited to selecting the team and general player positions ( goalie , defence , midfield , attack ) . |
| 10 | This applies to all soundtracks whether made for professional or non-profit amateur use even if these are limited to showing in the home . |
| 11 | Aviva Green — at Kenkelba until 22 May — is an artist true to her name : her canvases are filled to bursting with lush vegetation and flowers , all rendered in lively fireworks of colour . |
| 12 | When cells are exposed to ionizing radiation , the chromosomes of the cell nuclei may be damaged by the production of gene mutations ( dominant and recessive ) , involving alterations in the elementary units of heredity which are localized within the chromosomes , or by the induction of chromosome aberrations , consisting of changes in the structure or number of the chromosomes . |
| 13 | As with a unit-linked endowment , you invest directly on the stock market and are exposed to rising and falling prices . |
| 14 | Ferris was on the verge of signing for Linfield last season but has decided now to pledge his immediate future to the Lurgan club , who are expected to announced a major kit sponsorship shortly . |
| 15 | Repairs are expected to costs hundreds of millions of dollars , and French scientists have admitted that damage to some reactors may be so serious that they will have to be closed on safety grounds . |
| 16 | Parasitic flies are one of the hazards of the male cricket 's sex-life ; they are attracted to calling males , on whom they lay their eggs . |
| 17 | If you are attracted to knowing more about your own psychology ( and other people 's ) , or have low self-esteem or emotional problems and would like to do something about it , then you need to decide how ‘ deep ’ you want to go . |
| 18 | Any policy which aims at exorcising envy and the concomitant sense of guilt — the reason why so many intellectually eminent individuals are attracted to levelling doctrines , because they aspire to purge the sense of guilt to which eminence itself is prone — by measures of social or economic equalisation is foredoomed to failure , because it rests on the false presumption that envy and envy-guilt exist only because they are ‘ justified ’ , because the materials exist on which they feed . |
| 19 | So water softeners are added to washing powders to prevent its formation . |
| 20 | These are added to washing powders only to give an illusion of whiteness . |
| 21 | The Government are committed to sustaining the momentum of parliamentary reform . |
| 22 | We are committed to replacing CFCs in refrigeration by the end of 1996 and , when Basildon opened in August , we were the first supermarket retailer in Europe to introduce an ozone benign refrigerant . |
| 23 | It is clear that Sony are committed to pursuing and extending the Data Discman formula . |
| 24 | The Government are committed to pursuing a vigorous competition policy in the brewing industry and elsewhere . |
| 25 | The new act clearly falls far short of the demand for freedom of information legislation with a presumption that all official information is in the public domain except where there are clearly defined reasons for restricting disclosure and where there is adequate monitoring to ensure that civil servants and politicians are committed to implementing the principles behind the legislation . |
| 26 | We are committed to conducting our business in a manner which avoids adverse effects on the environment and public health . |
| 27 | We are creating a business which can think on its feet and we are committed to building a company of quality . ’ |
| 28 | I presented 29 awards and was able to announce that a further 500 companies are committed to meeting this standard . |
| 29 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats are committed to seeking improvement in public services solely , and disastrously , by spending more money , and by restoring power to their clients , the public sector workers . |
| 30 | He says the government might have given approval but questions whether are committed to bringing a new Nottinghamshire power station on stream . |