Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since sterling entered the ERM in October 1990 , UK monetary policy has been wholly subordinated to maintaining the currency within its permitted fluctuation band ( 6% either side of a central rate of DM2.95 to the pound ) . |
| 2 | His forecasting staff in the Treasury might have been better suited to dreaming up horoscopes , and at times officials seem to have been deliberately distorting figures for political ends . |
| 3 | Despite , or perhaps because of , this late arrival social anthropologists are much given to tracing their intellectual pedigree to as remote and as illustrious ancestors as they can uncover . |
| 4 | Often we are not even aware that fear is affecting our lives because we are so conditioned to living with it . |
| 5 | I am convinced that this is because the barbel are so conditioned to seeing this plastic larder pop through the surface and spread good things to eat along the bottom , they are waiting for it to happen . |
| 6 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 7 | The prerogatives of individual partners , who continue to have unlimited liability for the partnership 's debts , are generally restricted to electing their executive committees . |
| 8 | Several other British towns and cities are already committed to developing their own version of this game , with all profits going to the local YMCA . |
| 9 | It is likely that we will have to add £200 million to the billions of pounds we are already committed to spending on a genocidal weapon , which even from a purely military point of view is regarded as redundant . |
| 10 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 11 | Subjects are always limited to making judgements about experiences ; experimenters are stuck with observing physical events like evoked potentials , verbal reports and button presses . |
| 12 | Owing to shortage of teachers in nurse education , and the number of learners , we are gradually returning to learning by discovery , with the teacher acting as guide , counsellor and facilitator — in other words , the learner is doing . |
| 13 | The residual income has to cover a range of items which are directly related to caring like food , clothes , services and transport for mothers and children . |
| 14 | Increasingly , however , the benefits of new technology are more related to providing a flexible manufacturing base — i.e. where product mixes can be rapidly changed with little human intervention and set-up costs are low . |
| 15 | Boards with wider tails are more suited to jumping since they will leap off the top of a wave rather than digging into it . |
| 16 | Can I say that I hope Mr or or whoever writes for the County Council would n't use the form of words , but erm although I am instructed by my clients that they would be satisfied with the change to a single triangle , erm I do n't think that they would be satisfied if you in making that change , you accompanied by a form of words which said the County Council are still committed to building an outer . |
| 17 | The initiating event in these three cases may have been technical , but the persistent fistulas are probably related to underlying Crohn 's disease . |
| 18 | Given constant fishing pressure , measures were needed to maintain stocks of fish ; and the association established a hatchery where trout of native stock are carefully reared to fingerling stage and then released into the loch . |
| 19 | Exhibitions are also geared to raising our profile to stimulate the demand for information , and attracting sponsorship funding to assist in their production and promotion . |
| 20 | We are also committed to breaking down artificial barriers to women 's advancement based on prejudice or lack of imagination . |
| 21 | We are also committed to securing a better deal for council tenants and increasing the supply of affordable housing for those in housing need . |
| 22 | Consequently , the ‘ xuechao ’ came to end , but not before the ‘ hope of China ’ as young people are often referred to had declared that , ‘ we have no hope ’ They insisted that they were supportive of reform , ‘ but these are not the reforms we want ’ . |
| 23 | Bone and pellets preserved at an owl 's nest site are often exposed to trampling by the owls themselves . |
| 24 | If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question . |
| 25 | ‘ We are now restricted to using private vehicles , ’ said club president Mike Meynell . |
| 26 | ‘ Very well , ’ said the Commandant , ‘ I am afraid all the food is gone and we are now reduced to eating camel dung . ’ |
| 27 | The framework will therefore be better suited to simulating the consequences of different kinds of economic behaviour rather than determining what form economic behaviour has or is likely to take . |
| 28 | Of the available types the unification-based grammars appear to be best suited to dealing with a large coverage of English . |
| 29 | The twentysomethings of the X generation may be more predisposed to quitting a job and drifting . |
| 30 | They see a need to identify those children requiring new parents , and believe that social workers should be more committed to placing children with new parents in permanent homes ; and they note a greater commitment to this policy in the United States . |