Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 2 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 3 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 4 | We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them . |
| 5 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 6 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 7 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |
| 8 | Peter has been delivering yarn to Elderslie since 1946 when he worked with his family 's haulage business before joining Douglas Reyburn . |
| 9 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 10 | And the effect has been to reduce truth to timeliness , morality to usefulness and personal faith to a matter of what is fashionable . |
| 11 | A hospital has been saying farewell to one of its last links with it 's wartime origins . |
| 12 | ‘ For three years the Government has been cutting help to the unemployed , depriving them of the training they need and reducing their ability to find their way back to work . |
| 13 | But since 1987 there has been added impetus to the development of the Taurus programme , triggered largely by the post-Big Bang boom in share dealing and the subsequent crash in 1987 . |
| 14 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 15 | Under section 7 of the Act of 1980 , the parent of a child who has been refused admission to an aided school is given a right of appeal to an appeal committee against ‘ any decision made by or on behalf of the governors refusing … the child admission to ’ the school . |
| 16 | Gosatomnadzor , the regulator which was given responsibility for civil and military materials last June , has been refused access to some military inventories . |
| 17 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 18 | He let the foot he 'd been massaging fall to the floor with a thud , and she winced . |
| 19 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 20 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 21 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 22 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |
| 23 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 24 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 25 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 26 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 27 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 28 | For example , a retailer may have been refused access to a selective distribution network on grounds which his lawyers advise the retailer are inadequate . |
| 29 | Importance of contacts : Sir Patrick is quite happy with the thought that one of BP 's intentions in inviting him to join its board must have been to gain access to his little black book . |
| 30 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |