Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh Price Hughes chastised the 1896 Free Church Council meetings for its vociferousness and insisted that all should ‘ submit to those restraints and regulations which the experience of the greatest representative assemblies of the world has proved to be necessary to an intelligent participation in the business as it proceeds ’ . |
| 2 | Are we content with the quality of college provision , which in some instances has appeared to be close to a ‘ care and containment ’ policy , or are we going to ensure that students with disabilities receive the maximum opportunity to realise their potential ? |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher has always realized that her power base lay with back-benchers and has tried to be accessible to them . |
| 4 | The health authority is entitled to object and does object to being subject to an order of the court with penal consequences in the event of disobedience when it does not know precisely what is required of it . |
| 5 | If any further immediate description of qualification is sought , we can only say that it introduces an element which the speaker does feel to be relevant to identification of a property or an entity , but subject to the constraint that the element so introduced is not actually equivalent to the item qualified . |
| 6 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
| 7 | She always does , does n't matter what she gets it 's got to be different to anybody else 's and |
| 8 | It 's got to be meaningful to you as an individual , otherwise it wo n't work . |
| 9 | It 's got to be important to the child to make the difference between these two alternatives . |
| 10 | It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is . |
| 11 | It endangers continued public confidence in the political impartiality of the judiciary , which is essential to the continuance of the rule of law , if judges , under the guise of interpretation , provide their own preferred amendments to statutes which experience of their operation has shown to have had consequences that members of the court before whom the matter comes consider to be injurious to the public interest . |