Example sentences of "[conj] they are [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 2 | Whether or not the fruits of such a hybrid could be commercially exploited is not yet clear , however MacDonald and Wimpey feel that they are on to something very exciting . |
| 3 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 4 | The new , independent Her Majesty 's inspectorate will have the duty of giving a little lion stamp to those inspectors and ensuring that they are up to the mark . |
| 5 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 6 | VILLAGERS in Peru are living in terror that they are about to be haunted by a vampire … from Blackburn . |
| 7 | If you want to stay on starboard tack after the start , it is usually better to tack just in front of a group of boats so that they are safely to windward once you start . |
| 8 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |
| 9 | The belemnoids disappear from the fossil record at the end of the Cretaceous , but some of the group gave rise to living squid-like animals , and so they are not to be regarded as extinct in the same , final way as the ammonoids . |
| 10 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 11 | And they are there to be worked to until such time as we find a better way of doing it . |
| 12 | Certainly , he does not lack for critics ; and they are mainly to be found on the left of the political spectrum , amongst those who subscribe to Socialism in one or other of its varying forms . |
| 13 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 14 | The failure finally to secure 18 pubs from Bass , which would have boosted Hoskin 's estate to 29 , must have dented market confidence , a confidence that needs to be regained if they are not to be swallowed by one of the many new thrusting pub retailers actively seeking new acquisitions . |
| 15 | any numerical measures need a good deal of explanation and background information if they are not to be misleading ; and |
| 16 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 17 | Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea . |
| 18 | But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents . |
| 19 | This is a fundamental point because if they are merely to be ombudsmen then the emphasis of ensuring regulations have been adhered to and best advice proffered rests in the first instance heavily upon the customer , and it is up to the customer to complain . |
| 20 | Christians I have suggested , if they are rightly to be named Christians , must in some sense believe that God was in a unique way related to Christ , so that he becomes particular for them , and they are ( as I am not ) in their religion related to history . |
| 21 | That means that inspectors will be supervised and monitored by Her Majesty 's inspectorate and will not be allowed to carry out inspections unless they are up to standard . |
| 22 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 23 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 24 | Thing is a lexical item , it is a grammatical ‘ function ’ word , but they are hardly to be distinguished in terms of degree of generality . |
| 25 | These coins can be dated no more closely than the late 750s or early 760s , but they are possibly to be associated with the disintegration of Aethelbald 's imperium in southern England following his death . |