Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 2 | In most series patients with primary gastric lymphoma have been classified according to Rappaport , Kiel , Lukes-Collins , or Working Formulation systems . |
| 3 | This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) . |
| 4 | When this operation has been done according to the conventional wisdom you then decide whether you like where you are apparently going to end up . |
| 5 | Ashton and MacMillan adopt the same practice in their ballets which can be called classical in the court meaning of the term and whenever the music used is composed according to the formulae for classical composition . |
| 6 | Stella , who for a miserable quarter of an hour had been contemplating going to the ladies ' room and not coming back , was suddenly struck by the curiously fragmented nature of the group about the table . |
| 7 | In more remote areas , where the NO x concentration can be extremely low , ozone destruction has been reported owing to photolysis by near ultraviolet light . |
| 8 | The worst scarcity was in coal , some forty per cent of French production having been lost owing to the German invasion of the Lille area , and the population shuddered at the approach of each winter . |