Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 2 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 3 | Only the leading two candidates are entitled to go through to the second round . |
| 4 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 5 | After the seventh war with the Turks ( 1714–18 ) the Venetians were able to advance up to the present Bosnian border , taking in the whole of Sinjsko Polje and Imotski . |
| 6 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 7 | If Mr Moynihan is keen to hang on to his job he should get on to FIFA now and tell them to make the booking . |
| 8 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 9 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 10 | The bills were all made out to Hugo Rune . |
| 11 | But a combination of the £1.3 billion cash call and the general lack of confidence in the pharmaceutical sector means that Zeneca is unlikely to get off to the sort of flying start that some had hoped for . |
| 12 | Did he feel better or worse that neither the genuine Matthew Prescott nor the spurious Michael Watney was able to get through to Alexandra ? |
| 13 | Yet it is not clear that Thailand is well-placed to move on to the next stage of economic development . |
| 14 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 15 | Although we will clarify it in the course of this study , multimedia is hard to pin down to a rigid definition . |
| 16 | Helen was lovely to come back to , but by the same token it was a bigger wrench to leave her soft warm presence and venture into the inhospitable world outside . |
| 17 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 18 | Liverpool were content to hang on to their lead but manager Graeme Souness conceded : ‘ I said after Wednesday 's defeat by Spurs that we would play worse and win , and that was the case today . |
| 19 | The crew were all clinging on to the side of the trawler and the last men off , Billy and John took 'em They got hold of them by one leg and they pulled them off . |
| 20 | where both claimants are parties ] , the claimant is liable to account over to the other person having a right to claim to such extent as will avoid double liability ’ ; and by section 7(4) , ‘ where , as a result of enforcement of a double liability , any claimant is unjustly enriched to any extent , he shall be liable to reimburse the wrongdoer to that extent . ’ |
| 21 | Word came that the Sirdar liked it and Garvin was obliged to pass on to Owen a note of approval from the Consul-General . |
| 22 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 23 | At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack . |
| 24 | There must be mechanism for identifying persons in need and for reaching out to those willing to participate ; it may also at times be necessary to reach out to those who do not wish to participate but are at risk of harm to themselves or others . |
| 25 | Erm , so erm erm and that is the day that erm er both mum and Marion are due to fly off to Oz . |
| 26 | A psychological study ( Californian again ) once tried to explain why people were hard to tempt back to public transport . |
| 27 | Blue Streak was unlikely to measure up to this requirement . |
| 28 | Mr Gray said : ‘ On that basis , it is very alarming that £75 million is being top-sliced from the level of consents and only if these sums are achieved will local government be able to spend up to the figure of £628 million . ’ |
| 29 | But their sons and grandsons were all won over to Christianity . |
| 30 | US officials quoting Kuwaiti sources said on Feb. 26 that the Kuwaiti government was prepared to spend up to $800,000,000 to restore emergency health care , sanitation , communications , transport , utilities , food and water in the first three months after the end of the war . |