Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pron] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been said in the House previously , my hon. Friend will know that we are committed to the work being done in the south Atlantic , which HMS Polar Circle will shortly be carrying out . |
| 2 | Now you ca n't really get a coherent staffing policy within a school in that kind of flux , whereas now people perhaps erm a bit too much at the opposite extreme but nevertheless erm do know that they 're committed to being in the school and have a , therefore a commitment to it , a commitment to improving their own work and , and their collective work . |
| 3 | I did n't know that you were related to her . ’ |
| 4 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 5 | Yes , I did n't hear him saying that they waive the payments from you when , I did n't know if you were meant to ? |
| 6 | Burger smiled : ‘ But there will be very few who do not know if it is left to you , dear . |
| 7 | I do n't know if it 's linked to Chris 's work either . ’ |
| 8 | well those others , three of those , somebody else 's children plus her own ran total riot out in the garden , but I mean there 's not enough people to come round and do spot checks even if they 're allowed , I do n't know whether they 're allowed to , but they 've |
| 9 | The Attorney General can only act when he is asked to . |
| 10 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 11 | But my hon. Friend 's points are important ones about fairness in handling disciplinary matters , and I shall of course ensure that they are drawn to the attention of BR . |
| 12 | Explain the system carefully and do ensure that it is seen to be fair . |
| 13 | This would be mainframe-driven with suitable terminals in all branches , and the person responsible for any information item would ensure that it was copied to the master file for other parties with the necessary authority to access . |
| 14 | On deciding to become a candidate for election to a local government body an individual must ensure that he is qualified to be a candidate . |
| 15 | I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative . |
| 16 | Do n't speak until you 're spoken to . |
| 17 | It sounds like a joke on a seaside postcard — what do you do if you 're addicted to sex ? |
| 18 | What should you do if you are spoken to about this ? |
| 19 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 20 | Each Dobson unit is a hundredth of a millimetre and refers to the thickness of the stratospheric ozone layer that would result if it were brought to sea level pressure and temperature . |
| 21 | Must n't speak unless I 'm spoken to . |
| 22 | The sergeant came to a halt outside the adjutant 's hut , and an out-of-breath Charlie caught up with him just as the door was opened by a colour-sergeant who turned to Charlie and said , ‘ Stand to attention , lad , remain one pace behind me and do n't speak unless you 're spoken to . |
| 23 | ‘ And remember , do n't speak unless you 're spoken to , ’ he added sharply . |
| 24 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 25 | Afterwards , he could always claim that it was sent to an old or wrong address by mistake , or that it must have got lost in the post . |
| 26 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 27 | His difficulty is that his party has nothing to tell him about what it would spend if it were returned to power , which it will not be . |
| 28 | She and Giancarlo sat at a table with a distinguished-looking woman in her fifties , whose name Constance could not remember but who was referred to by everyone as Contessa , and her son , Pino , who laughed a lot and told Constance anecdotes about the other guests . |
| 29 | But doctors are now trying to see which drugs do work before they 're given to patients . |
| 30 | Can I move that it be referred to the environment er committee . |