Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise stock may be withdrawn to many areas without proper records being kept . |
| 2 | The C.-in-C. of the CIS Armed Forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , who met US Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow on Jan. 29 , said in London on Jan. 30 that tactical nuclear weapons located in all former Soviet republics , except Ukraine and Byelarus , would be withdrawn to Russia by July . |
| 3 | You know what I mean , that is down to the individual really is that er that they should actually find out and i , that needs to be highlighted to all |
| 4 | The court held that no offence was committed in that case , since the person at whom the conduct was directed was an undercover policeman who was unlikely to be provoked to violence , and no offence would be committed under the Act either , for the same reasons . |
| 5 | Having recently been involved in the revision of about 20 standards dealing with the analysis of iron , steel and ferro-alloys for the British Standards Institution ( BSI ) , I have just learned that in all these documents the spelling of sulphur is to be altered to sulfur , for the element and in the names of all its derivatives . |
| 6 | The text flow can be interrupted at any time by clicking the mouse or the flow method can be altered to semi-automatic or back to manual by clicking in conjunction with the Command or Shift keys . |
| 7 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 8 | The head is an important part of a pint of beer and if beer is dispensed in the way that he is advocating through the implementation of section 43 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 , the taste , texture and colour of cask-conditioned beer could be altered to the detriment of the discerning beer-drinking public . |
| 9 | Yes , erm , erm obviously not made it very well , but erm , but the word acceptable ought to be altered to increased |
| 10 | The boxes both have six SIMM slots and can be incremented to a maximum 96Mb. +1 408 432–0292 |
| 11 | In particular its authority should be recognized to the extent necessary to enable it to secure goals , which individuals have reason to secure , for which social co-ordination is necessary or helpful , and where this is the most promising way of achieving them . |
| 12 | Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) . |
| 13 | Of course , this wo n't work for all cases if any of the last three fields are sometimes blank , although the WHILE condition could be amended to ‘ NOT ( ISBLANK ( [ Field13 ] ) AND ISBLANK ( [ Field14 ] ) AND ISBLANK ( [ Field15 ] ) to trap some of these . |
| 14 | The language of the original , or oddities of spelling or punctuation , can be amended to some degree — an important consideration when using such material with primary school pupils or pupils with learning difficulties . |
| 15 | The words in square brackets should , however , be deleted , or at the least the provisions should be amended to " best endeavours " to place a more stringent obligation on the landlord . |
| 16 | The reference to " or " such other risks should be amended to " and in addition to the foregoing " in order to make it clear that the landlord is not given the choice which of the stated risks it may choose to insure against — perhaps an obvious point but one worth making . |
| 17 | The periods of 7 and 14 days should certainly be amended to 14 and 28 days . |
| 18 | Erm the next erm feature is the yellow one for the Liberal Democrats , there 's one Liberal Democrat typographical error and that 's on the second page page four of the resolutions and you 'll see that in the second column there 's a total three , three , three five , that should be amended to , sorry three , three , three five that should be amended to three , one , five , five and then where it says nine the resource budget immediately below that nine , four , five , ninety four five O , it 's three hundred and sixty thousand , three hundred and sixty million , six hundred thousand , that stays the same . |
| 19 | Erm the next erm feature is the yellow one for the Liberal Democrats , there 's one Liberal Democrat typographical error and that 's on the second page page four of the resolutions and you 'll see that in the second column there 's a total three , three , three five , that should be amended to , sorry three , three , three five that should be amended to three , one , five , five and then where it says nine the resource budget immediately below that nine , four , five , ninety four five O , it 's three hundred and sixty thousand , three hundred and sixty million , six hundred thousand , that stays the same . |
| 20 | As regards the substantial outside assistance to the Western Isles , one wonders whether a small part of it might not usefully be redirected to subsidising the high costs of transport between them and the mainland . |
| 21 | In another snub , the amount saved will be redirected to Labour councillors and MEPs . |
| 22 | Perhaps not surprisingly , the ‘ new ’ criminologists insisted that attention should be redirected to the definers of crime . |
| 23 | This was that a proportion of the pool funding for General Medical Services would be redirected to practices in high demand , deprived areas . |
| 24 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 25 | A waterfall does not have to be prefabricated to be successful and in certain circumstances it is desirable that it is not so . |
| 26 | The girl was to be guarded until she delivered , at which time she was to be stoned to death . |
| 27 | Such blasphemers by the Mosaic law were to be stoned to death and for his part he could freely consent to it . |
| 28 | In some countries in the world you would be stoned to death . |
| 29 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 30 | But how , after the Foxley Wood decision , is the pressure going to be eased to London 's south-west , along and around the M4 and M3 motorways ? |