Example sentences of "they be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 've they been up to now then ? |
| 2 | They are thus to some extent limited in where they can invest , as we discuss further in chapter 6 . |
| 3 | They are shortly to be voting on new student dress regulations that will allow school principals to ban the sign from their institutions . |
| 4 | Whether or not the fruits of such a hybrid could be commercially exploited is not yet clear , however MacDonald and Wimpey feel that they are on to something very exciting . |
| 5 | If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens . |
| 6 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 7 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 8 | They are yet to be involved in the testing process : ‘ My real concern for my children is that they have n't gone through the tests for 14-year-olds yet , ’ he says . |
| 9 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 10 | They are up to 30 km in length and are marked by Indian cairn shrines and sometimes by Spanish churches ( presumably placed on former Indian sites ) . |
| 11 | All teachers shall be given a competency test to verify they are up to date with subjects and modern teaching methods . |
| 12 | They are up to 3ins ( 7½cms ) long and l½ins ( 4cms ) wide . |
| 13 | They may giggle and act as though they have not a serious thought in their heads , but they know exactly what they are up to . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most urgent is that of how the elements in ideal-type models relate to actors ' own beliefs about what they are up to . |
| 15 | The new , independent Her Majesty 's inspectorate will have the duty of giving a little lion stamp to those inspectors and ensuring that they are up to the mark . |
| 16 | That means that inspectors will be supervised and monitored by Her Majesty 's inspectorate and will not be allowed to carry out inspections unless they are up to standard . |
| 17 | They are also to be found near to towns and some holiday resorts in South East England where many of the perhaps 70,000 residential caravans are located . |
| 18 | They are also to be seen in neat pleated skirts of the kind to be found at Jaeger and Country Casuals . |
| 19 | Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height . |
| 20 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 21 | Now they are away to a University of Wolverhampton team in the quarter finals.The Observer Moot is a national competition in which pairs of students representing law departments from universities in England , Wales and Northern Ireland argue points of law before a moot judge . |
| 22 | The failure finally to secure 18 pubs from Bass , which would have boosted Hoskin 's estate to 29 , must have dented market confidence , a confidence that needs to be regained if they are not to be swallowed by one of the many new thrusting pub retailers actively seeking new acquisitions . |
| 23 | Since it seems they are not to be permitted to cut student numbers , they are attempting to increase income . |
| 24 | Although all are good single scullers , they are not to Olympic singles standard , but combined they looked yesterday to have good potential . |
| 25 | The belemnoids disappear from the fossil record at the end of the Cretaceous , but some of the group gave rise to living squid-like animals , and so they are not to be regarded as extinct in the same , final way as the ammonoids . |
| 26 | any numerical measures need a good deal of explanation and background information if they are not to be misleading ; and |
| 27 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 28 | Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea . |
| 29 | ( They are not to be confused with the GRU , whose function is military intelligence . ) |
| 30 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |