Example sentences of "is [verb] [noun] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 2 | Where the public documentation indicates that the firm is giving advice to its client , careful consideration should be given as to how that advice is delivered . |
| 3 | For a politician to have a clear objective is to offer hostages to his opponents . |
| 4 | In it , the young Anglo- Asian hero , Karim , engages in some heavy petting with a white male school friend , then takes a breather in the garden , where his Asian father is making love to his friend 's single- breasted mother ( cancer has claimed the other breast ) . |
| 5 | An excellent strategy is to convey understanding to your child or teenager by bearing in mind the two-way nature of good communication between adults . |
| 6 | Daphne 's response to this remembrance is to pledge obedience to her mother 's memory by forgetting Cynthio and embracing her sister shepherdesses . |
| 7 | The Canadian government body charged with holding down the cost of patented drugs is proposing amendments to its pricing guidelines at the same time a study shows that Canadian prices are often higher than the international median . |
| 8 | SWEDEN is to prevent entries to its two European Tour events from players who play on this winter 's Sunshine Tour in South Africa . |