Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was that a proportion of the pool funding for General Medical Services would be redirected to practices in high demand , deprived areas . |
| 32 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 33 | A waterfall does not have to be prefabricated to be successful and in certain circumstances it is desirable that it is not so . |
| 34 | The girl was to be guarded until she delivered , at which time she was to be stoned to death . |
| 35 | Such blasphemers by the Mosaic law were to be stoned to death and for his part he could freely consent to it . |
| 36 | In some countries in the world you would be stoned to death . |
| 37 | Trafalgar House , BR 's favoured partner , is reliably understood to have rejected the idea of building a terminal at Stratford and to be sticking to the final route chosen by BR . |
| 38 | ‘ Basically we 've looked and said there 's no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here , ’ Collis said , adding that Dell will be sticking to its own price timetable . |
| 39 | The one consolation is that , for all the shooting , South Africa seems to be sticking to its promises of independence . |
| 40 | When she examined his eye she saw the splinter , a tiny coil of metal shaving which appeared to be sticking to the iris . |
| 41 | Oil producers seem to be sticking to OPEC curbs |
| 42 | We will be sticking to our guns . ’ |
| 43 | Oh no er necessarily not , because er depending on the details of the er formula that all the words that er come out of the discussions today , er it 's got to be discussed by the members at grass-roots level , and if we 're not happy with it , we will be sticking to the action er certainly up until when the ballot is taken and if it is voted against er any deal that is struck at the moment , we will continue the action , and I think this will be not only in Oxfordshire , but up and down the country , the strength of feeling nationally is very strong . |
| 44 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 45 | But how , after the Foxley Wood decision , is the pressure going to be eased to London 's south-west , along and around the M4 and M3 motorways ? |
| 46 | It therefore seems that the way will be eased to the continuing destruction of what is left of wild nature in Britain , to serve the open-ended demands of development and growth . |
| 47 | The editorial matter can be biased to presenting a favourable buying climate for speculative stocks . |
| 48 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 49 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 50 | But for the butcher , baker , DIY shop , holiday company or plumber , the remedy seems to be to go to another trader next time , and write this disappointment or disaster down to experience , unless it is bad enough to take to a lawyer or the Small Claims Court . |
| 51 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 52 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |
| 53 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
| 54 | At the closure of the session he suggested a number of measures to be undertaken to " promulgate and propagate the essence of the new laws " , including the nationwide education of party cadres and the people through study classes , and increased media coverage . |
| 55 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 56 | The whys and wherefores of these procedures need to be explained to students , otherwise they might conclude that proper parking is not really important and that it is alright to leave a glider with either wing down . |
| 57 | But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken . |
| 58 | But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken . ’ |
| 59 | The meaning of the October Revolution was then to be explained to anyone who bothered to turn up . |
| 60 | The situation needs to be explained to parents in terms of : |