Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Save where the Rules or the Funds Rules 1987 provide otherwise , all monies due are paid to the party in whose favour there is a judgment or Order ( Ord 22 , r 1A ) . |
| 2 | It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe . |
| 3 | In one of the most outspoken statements ever made by a Metropolitan Police officer of his rank , he says : ‘ The council has been ensuring that as many cases as possible are referred to the SMG , a pernicious organisation spewing out lies and propaganda in pursuance of their own ideological aims . |
| 4 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 5 | Because the poorest are directed to those schemes least likely to result in gaining a job , they are in fact being selected for unemployment and possibly membership of the underclass at the end of their courses . |
| 6 | But many of the Andalucian farm workers who voted for the Socialists in 1982 and 1986 are turning to Mr Pacheco 's party to voice their discontent . |
| 7 | The 4th and 15th are bound to be days when the tide of fortune may appear to turn against you . |
| 8 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
| 9 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 10 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 11 | Some remote pain stabbed at Paul , where had that been said to him before ? |
| 12 | The Lanc that been allocated to the RAF Museum was PA474 and after the end of its active life it was flown into the Museum 's storage and restoration facility at Henlow on September 25 , 1964 , to await the opening of a new museum . |
| 13 | Has that been suggested to you before ? |
| 14 | That been reduced to forty four thousand |
| 15 | The propane/butane fridges use no chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) or hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) in their production ; 285,000 are expected to be made this year . |
| 16 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 17 | Programmes which seek to do this are referred to as ‘ visual enhancement ’ and aim to give encouragement and motivation to pupils with defective vision to use this with maximum ‘ visual efficiency ’ . |
| 18 | More instances that this are required to be certain that the possible parts of speech of the word are found . |
| 19 | This possibility can not be discounted , but it must be borne in mind that Szulc 's sources for this are confined to interviews with Blas Roca , Fabio Grobart and Alfredo Guevara , all of whom are ‘ old ’ Communists who might well be anxious to give an enhanced impression of their role in the early stages of the revolution . |
| 20 | Gardeners looking for something different are turning to a new hobby … growing meat-eating plants . |
| 21 | At least half are believed to be switched off by remote control every night . |
| 22 | Half are going to the regions , especially the south-west . |
| 23 | half are going to Rovers and half are going round Cadburys place |
| 24 | Of those recommendations , about half are addressed to the Government ; the other half are addressed to industry itself . |
| 25 | A further 12 are expected to be created . |
| 26 | As these factors are examined it is important to bear in mind that a major advantage to the builder is that the financial risks of employing labour direct are transferred to the sub-contractor . |
| 27 | The combined payments for March 1993 and June 1993 are expected to be about £9m , a more than 50% increase over the payment in March 1992 . |
| 28 | So far about 35 of the exclusive cars have been delivered by Jaguar , though few are expected to be seen on the road . |
| 29 | Quite a few are waiting to be unveiled at the bike shows this autumn . |
| 30 | The woody floras of those forests that are surrounded on all sides by arid woodlands consist of species with wide neotropical distributions and many of them are found elsewhere in a wide range of habitats while few are restricted to montane forest . |