Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most severely-handicapped may be able to benefit from pictures and music , if they are given access to them . |
| 2 | They 're pushing stuff to you . |
| 3 | ‘ So you 're adding forgery to your many other dubious talents . ’ |
| 4 | Office 4 's features include the ability to call up a group schedule , or other users ’ personal calendars — if you 're allowed access to them , of course — to check for clashes in your schedules . |
| 5 | There 's a certain look you have when you 're making love to me that shares my anticipation and surprise . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're making love to me . ’ |
| 7 | That means that it 's practically impossible for a landowner to enforce restrictions unless you 're setting fire to his house or driving a JCB over his grouse moor . |
| 8 | Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports . |
| 9 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 10 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 11 | We have been promised access to our health records and waiting lists which are no longer than 18 months . |
| 12 | We have been promised access to our health records and waiting lists which are no longer than 18 months . |
| 13 | Occasionally I get the unnerving sense that one or two people are paying attention to what I am saying . |
| 14 | If you are sending information to us on a monthly basis , please ensure completed forms are returned by the first day of the month preceding the event ( eg for events taking place in November , information should reach the editor by 1 October ) . |
| 15 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 16 | ‘ But I will stick around only as long as I am doing justice to myself and the team . |
| 17 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 18 | If you are divided among yourselves you are doing harm to your country . |
| 19 | Whatever the difference of view held across the House , given that CTCs are funded by public money , will the Secretary of State take urgent steps to give parents whose children are refused admission to them the same right of appeal that is available in respect of all other publicly-funded schools ? |
| 20 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 21 | In framing the loan agreement both the government and the Bank had formally agreed that high-powered international management of the meat plants and ranches was necessary to success , that pastoral cattle keepers should be given title to their land ( an innovation ) , and that the meat price should be raised , thus restraining urban demand . |
| 22 | It is important that only competent and recognised organ-builders or their staff undertake tuning and other work on the instrument , and no unauthorised person should be given access to it . |
| 23 | three brass things , no it should n't be seen really , so I do n't know whether I 'm drawing attention to it by putting brass things |
| 24 | Meanwhile , my first efforts must be to attract attention to myself and have myself removed from this common Bedlam in which I was shut . |
| 25 | High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations . |
| 26 | Admittedly , these are all important areas of concern , but moral reasoning should not be made subservient to what are themselves value laden economic arguments which do not always take into account the totality of the costs they purport to assess . |
| 27 | You too will soon be recommending Omega to your friends . |
| 28 | Mansell flies back to Britain from his Florida home this week for intensive testing of the new Renault V10 engine , which the team hope will be adding impetus to their championship drive by the time they reach Barcelona . |
| 29 | They will be advising myself and the Chairman and I will be reporting progress to you , ’ he explains . |
| 30 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |