Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though some of the foregoing indicates diversity , the questions they raise are common to all teachers : |
| 2 | However , more jobs than you probably realise are open to graduates no matter what they have studied . |
| 3 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 4 | Our members need to know that the services and benefits that the union provide are available to them regardless of where they work . |
| 5 | Aiming at ‘ normal ’ concentrations runs the risk of inducing phenylalanine deficiency , which several lines of evidence suggest is harmful to both nutrition and brain development . |
| 6 | The other is my lack of understanding of sending money abroad — on the face of it , anything we send is liable to a double loss , once when exchanged into a form suitable for sending to America ( Covenant House ) and again when passed onto Guatemala . |
| 7 | I would estimate that on present form our cost to the heads of agreement stage may be another [ ] assuming it is a UK buyer and that the information you supply is satisfactory to the potential purchasers . |
| 8 | ‘ What you say is close to the truth . |
| 9 | An international team of astronomers estimated that the distance to Supernova 1987A , and therefore the LMC , is 169 000 light years , a figure which they say is accurate to within 5 per cent . |
| 10 | If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice . |
| 11 | ‘ So this is the man you say is indispensable to us . ’ |
| 12 | The climbing and the people who climb are central to this book , and Dennis 's descriptions of both are rich , but rich with sensation , humanity , humour , magnanimity . |
| 13 | 1985 ) expectation of seeing appropriate training and support being available to all teachers to enable them to cater for the linguistic needs of pupils in a linguistically diverse Britain ( para. 2.17 ) still needs serious consideration . |
| 14 | ‘ Imagine being able to radio to base . |
| 15 | You can get so lost trying to please so many people that you stop being true to yourself . |
| 16 | Because of this the ‘ selling ’ of the idea to someone not yet fully mature is likely to be a workable relationship . |
| 17 | The question is : are we by definition confined to making changes to the curriculum on a purely individual basis to ensure that the teaching individual children receive is appropriate to their needs ? |
| 18 | Say only that this of which I speak is pleasing to you . ’ |
| 19 | The public transport on which ordinary people depend is inaccessible to wheelchairs . |
| 20 | I doubt that the death of your Molly fry was due to overcrowding , but through lack of water movement through the netting . |
| 21 | Tim Bell , usually described in the newspapers as ‘ Mrs Thatcher 's favourite adman ’ , claims the distinguishing characteristic of this group was that ‘ we spent time being nice to her . |
| 22 | This society 's accounting policy on provisions is that ‘ provisions are made to reduce the value of loans and advances to the amount which the directors consider is likely to be ultimately received ’ . |
| 23 | ( b ) Adolescents in need There is a separate and additional duty for every local authority " to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who has reached the age of 16 and whose welfare the authority consider is likely to be seriously prejudiced if they do not provide him with accommodation " ( s20(3) ) . |
| 24 | Make clear to your prospective employer any plans you have for the future , and make sure that the post you accept is appropriate to these . |
| 25 | How much of what you read was familiar to you-terminology , people , places , general developments ? |
| 26 | Er which er I suspect was due to the th the insufficient time to carry out the exercise . |
| 27 | Lebanese I know are close to the bad guys . |
| 28 | Although writers and writing are the subjects of most of these essays , the themes they present are essential to understanding both the extraordinary political changes that have swept through Eastern Europe , and the human condition under communism . |
| 29 | As a consequence any isotopic effects generated by in situ decay are likely to be small compared with those inherited from asthenospheric heterogeneities . |
| 30 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |