Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lawyers ' proposals are calculated to save up to £43m . |
| 2 | Ultimately , the aim should be to provide fully integrated services for people of all races and cultures which are designed to respond appropriately to individual differences . |
| 3 | All vehicles carry videotapes and illustrative material and are designed to accommodate up to sixteen girls working in pairs at eight work stations . |
| 4 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 5 | Thirty thousand people are expected to turn up to nearly forty hours of music . |
| 6 | Hundreds of vintage tractor enthusiasts are expected to turn up to one of the biggest auctions of its kind . |
| 7 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 8 | Furthermore , such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse . |
| 9 | The Sparc machines are expected to use up to 20 CPUs each and will start life as $150,000 to $200,000 boxes . |
| 10 | On commencing work on a project they receive their normal , weekly Unemployment Benefit ( according to status and dependants ) plus the sum of £10.00 out of which they are expected to spend up to £4.00 on travel to work costs . |
| 11 | On commencing work on a project they receive their normal , weekly unemployment Benefit ( according to status and dependants ) plus the sum of £10.00 out of which they are expected to spend up to £4.00 on travel to work costs . |
| 12 | The shipments , which are expected to transport up to 30 tonnes of plutonium from Cap La Hague and Sellafield ( UK ) to Japan over the next 20 years , have aroused international protest . |
| 13 | The drawings are expected to fetch up to £500,000 ; the owners apparently had no idea of their value . |
| 14 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 15 | Blood group factor H has been reported to blind preferentially to endothelial cells as well as intestinal mucins and other glycoproteins . |
| 16 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | The collection had been expected to fetch up to eighty thousand pounds . |
| 18 | Although it covers all knowledge , it has been designed to apply specifically to collections in school libraries . |
| 19 | Over the last 4–5 years there has been a considerable amount of activity in the colony due to the expiry of the lease in 1997 when the land on which the colony has been built reverts back to its previous owner the Republic of China . |
| 20 | But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States . |
| 21 | The monotheistic forms of religion are the higher , for they more clearly and purely bring the God-consciousness to expression , ‘ and all others are related to them as subordinate forms , from which men are destined to pass on to those higher ones ’ . |
| 22 | In the face of an economic climate characterised by a higher degree of " uncertainty " , a greater volatility in demand for their output and increased pressure to reduce labour costs to a minimum , employers are seeking to build in to their workforces an element of " numerical flexibility " . |
| 23 | Scotland have been drawn in the same section as Ireland and Wales and are looking to go forward to a promotion play-off with the winners of a section involving Germany , Austria and Norway . |
| 24 | ‘ The vestments which have been made adds immeasurably to the praise of God . |
| 25 | A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date . |
| 26 | In the church scene the words of the Anglican matins are made to allude heavily to Grimes 's troubles at almost every point : " we have erred and strayed from thy ways " just as Ellen notices the tear in the apprentice 's coat ; " 0 Lord open Thou our lips " with Ellen 's " John , what are you trying to hide ? " ; and finally " Amen " as answer to Ellen 's " We 've failed " , which Peter takes up literally in his most crucial phrase " So be it , and God have mercy upon me ! " [ 18 ] . |
| 27 | They 're expected to fetch up to £4,000 and every penny will go to charity . |
| 28 | ‘ I know you 're wanting to get back to the hacienda . ’ |
| 29 | And all these Russian scientists with , you know , sending up these rockets in the air , they 're going to go over to Iraq . |
| 30 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |