Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By opposing new clause 4 and amendment No. 17 , the Minister seems to be trying to deny to the people who will be transferred to the new privatised subsidiaries the kind of benefits enjoyed by members of big schemes , such as the existing scheme . |
| 2 | Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box . |
| 3 | If the former matrimonial home was in the husband 's sole name , then in the event of his death the wife has to prove her interest in it , and the correspondence will have to be unearthed to prove to the capital taxes office that , although the house is in the husband 's sole name , his estate would not be beneficially entitled to the whole of the proceeds of sale . |
| 4 | This file may need to be tailored to point to the appropriate remote Installation Directory . |
| 5 | Dick , thank you for those kind words , er , specially about er my book , and I think I am considering appointing you as my agent er , you also said er that I 'd dr drawn the short straw indeed you er whispered to me that I was the sacrificial lamb this morning well we 'll see about that but I do know that I have the great honour to be invited to speak to congress this morning on behalf of the G M B parliamentary group . |
| 6 | Namibia was to be invited to accede to the Lomé Convention which regulated relations between the European Communities ( EC ) and the 68 ( with Namibia ) developing countries of Africa , the Caribbean and the Pacific ( the ACP countries ) [ see p. 37210 ] . |
| 7 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 8 | Once he drew in his breath , as though startled to recognize his own half-known thoughts : and when the poem was ended he seemed to be struggling to come to himself . |
| 9 | So she was surprised , and vaguely annoyed , to see Sandra Bamfield picking her way cautiously over the large rocks that had to be scaled to get to the privacy of this particular beach . |
| 10 | Among these was the question of those leudes who had once followed either Guntram or Sigibert I , the father of Childebert , but had transferred their loyalty elsewhere ; they were to be made to return to their original allegiance from the places where they were known to have settled . |
| 11 | Now the torrents and viperish fury that fired ‘ Weld ’ have subsided , it looks like a battle that had to be waged to get to the next stage — the calm , healing shores and sanguine odes of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 12 | they liked to be seen to go to church |
| 13 | While this has been the intention in the NHS , the reality has been different , partly because ministers have to be seen to respond to public concerns . |
| 14 | But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents . |
| 15 | What is crucial for the Government is not only to help provide jobs but to be seen to want to be doing that . |
| 16 | The acquirer or any foreign party is likely to be asked to submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts and appoint an agent in England for the purposes of the agreement . |
| 17 | Firstly , with the accountant 's control model there tends to be time lags in the reporting of variances because of the nature of accounting systems , and secondly people , rather than the mechanical system , will have to be motivated to respond to variances , identify the cause of variance and take corrective action . |
| 18 | If the Loyalists are so determined to live under British rule , it would make economic sense for them to be assisted to move to the mainland . |
| 19 | In the case of FOREIGN modules , only one module header needs to be created to point to the associated foreign files . |
| 20 | Techniques such as object oriented design and structured programming will have to be followed to conform to engineering practice . |
| 21 | In any event , the dog may be too nervous to allow it to run free at this stage , and to be trusted to return to you . |
| 22 | Had it been the form that all agencies were not mentioned , this may have been acceptable , but to be forced to listen to a litany of other agency names — not least Barkers Trident — without a single mention of our own was deplorable . |
| 23 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 24 | He also had to be reminded to write to her , which he did ( in later years ) about every six weeks , just a dutiful account of where he had been , what he had done , with little of his usual animation . |
| 25 | If the lease requires the service of a notice , informal discussions between the parties are unlikely to be held to amount to a review of the rent ( Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Anthony Gibbs Financial Services Ltd ( 1983 ) 267 EG 351 ) . |
| 26 | The claim that Diana had to be ordered to go to Korea particularly upset the Korean hosts . |
| 27 | They were reported to have fled the camps and were said to be attempting to return to their homes . |
| 28 | Sometimes this is n't possible , as care has to be taken to keep to public footpaths or ask landowners ' permission . |
| 29 | Course outline I think we 're all agreed , should be at the top er , that is important we 've now agreed a heading and comment we 've got a e enough agreement that says that , it will be just called comment , but guidelines will need to be produced to go to staff erm |
| 30 | The term ‘ voice quality ’ needs comment , as it tends to be used to refer to three different things : |