Example sentences of "[is] [art] [noun] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Is the year only lost to me ?
2 Again , a healthy example is the instruction commonly given to sufferers from alcoholism : " Do n't drink , read the book , work the steps , get a " sponsor , go to meetings " .
3 Is the union really trying to " do you down " , to " deceive the company to prove that management is incompetent ?
4 The ‘ stage carriage bus service ’ , or public omnibus , is the service usually referred to when rural transport is under discussion .
5 is the name generally applied to rice of varying quality and sold as an all-purpose grain .
6 The ‘ hidden agenda ’ is the name often given to this covert process whereby liaisons and alliances are formed for mutual support , and battle lines are drawn .
7 First , one thread running through them is that where A is the person who made the deposit but B is the person beneficially entitled to the deposit , B is the material person for the purposes of the protection scheme .
8 Is the policy now to stick to what you know ?
9 But what really concerns me is the area directly relating to my composition .
10 Mhm , what 's the pay like compared to other factories in the area ?
11 Yes , there 's a bit more plastering to be done yet .
12 erm I do n't think our culture is the worst that 's ever been and I think there 's a tendency sometimes to try to sort of overstate that .
13 Jim , there 's a letter here addressed to Mrs S do you think it must be Shirley ?
14 And youngsters normally er when , when they pass by , they will certainly say , at your back , something nasty and so er there is no way just have to an tolerate it unless , until we want to end up in , behind the bars .
15 This pole has been treated against rot ( previous poles had to have bits chopped of the bottom periodically ) so there is no reason now to stick to the three year cycle .
16 There is no need therefore to resort to the more restrictive provisions of Part I of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 to admit hearsay evidence in the county court and High Court .
17 First , is every director wholly committed to the concept of the accountability of the board as a whole , primarily to shareholders but also to other constituencies ?
18 ‘ There is a servant now to attend to all that . ’
19 The need to educate people , both to use deep-fat fryers properly and to clean and filter oil regularly , is a factor also referred to by sales and marketing director for Garland Catering Equipment , Keith Davies .
20 Held over two days , each country entering one athlete per event , it is a competition well suited to the need to keep Britain established as the third-strongest athletic nation in Europe and the fourth in the world .
21 The United States argued in the context of Suez that there is a user right appertaining to all users of the Canal , including , presumably , potential users .
22 Ozone is a gas closely related to oxygen .
23 Skymaster , let us remember , is a service specifically offered to the General Aviation pilot .
24 It is a position often linked to existentialist religious writers and particularly to the Danish thinker of the early nineteenth century , often regarded as the founding father of existentialism , Søren Kierkegaard .
25 As we shall discuss in the next chapter , there is a lot more work to be done before the causal process underlying this relationship is laid bare : we do not know whether it is through buying a better diet or better medical care , for example , that richer countries improve their life expectancy .
26 At all levels of the game intelligence is a commodity solely restricted to managers .
27 But within that list is a shoe perfectly matched to your needs .
28 At Freiston Shore there is a hostelry well known to bird watchers where they do a Root pub lunch …
29 Stokesley , indeed , possessing neither trade nor manufacturers , has no appearance of bustle or business , and is a place well adapted to retirement . ’
30 Java Moss , Vesicularia dubyana is a moss more suited to tropical temperatures .
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