Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 2 | The interest payments you make to the fund are effectively paid back to the members of the Scheme as pensions later . |
| 3 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 4 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 5 | These parsers build the parse tree by starting with a rule whose right-hand side is a sentence , S. The rules are progressively expanded down to the rules having the lexical categories that match the input . |
| 6 | In addition , many other categories of workers in the formal and informal sectors in all three worlds have been progressively drawn in to the global capitalist system by the simple expedient of severely restricting and in more and more cases absolutely destroying their prospects for selfsufficiency in the provision of food , shelter and other ‘ necessities ’ of life . |
| 7 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 8 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 9 | Most workers have no idea of what is done with ‘ their ’ savings , even in the case of pension funds which are not farmed out to the merchant banks for management . |
| 10 | Outside contractors are not brought on to the University 's premises except by prior agreement with the University ; |
| 11 | Interestingly , the shrouds are taken down to a deep , galvanised , mild steel I-beam which runs between this bulkhead and the main bulkhead forward of the mast : ties are not taken down to the hull itself , so the lockers and shelving behind the settees remain unobstructed . |
| 12 | ‘ You are not walking on to the stage at the Shield , or any theatre in which I have influence , again . |
| 13 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 14 | We are thus led back to the same problem as before ; although the fact of taking X as end does not justify the decision to do Y , the enjoyment of X which does complete the justification is itself merely a psychological fact . |
| 15 | There are no trees or shrubs on Fair Isle for obvious reasons — what few survive the gales and salt spray are soon nibbled down to the ground by sheep , but the ground is well cultivated in the more sheltered parts . |
| 16 | In his paper on ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud established that in depression following the loss of a love-object the ego absorbs that object into itself so that the exaggerated self-reproaches , self-deprecation and self-hatred which typify the condition can be understood as sadistic drives which have been unconsciously directed on to the object whose ‘ shadow has fallen on the ego . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 're just going through to the hall , ’ said Dominic . |
| 18 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 19 | Or if you 're not going back to the hospital , it will be sent to you by post . |
| 20 | Yeah we 're not going back to the underpass do |
| 21 | ‘ No you 're not going out to the cinema tonight . |
| 22 | That 's very interesting because we 're always going back to the earlier comment that , perhaps people like scientists , like sociologists are intelligent , but not in touch . |
| 23 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 24 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 25 | As the beetle lumbers into the air , the stiff wing covers are usually held out to the side , a posture that inevitably hampers efficient flight . |
| 26 | Fortunately , I love to drive , although there seems little point in having the capacity to reach high speeds when you are bumper to bumper , even less point in having a CD player with quadraphonic sound when you are permanently tuned in to the traffic reports ! |
| 27 | In addition to that , the anomalies , which have been repeatedly pointed out to the Revenue for many years , should be corrected . |
| 28 | It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology . |
| 29 | Actresses are also creeping on to the catwalk , offering their services in exchange for a couple of outfits . |
| 30 | But governments seem unable to learn that the high taxes are inevitably passed on to the consumer as part of the cost of operating a business : Taxes have to be paid , and just as fuel and power bills are borne , tax liability forms part of the overall cost-recovery necessary for the survival of a business . |