Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the tyres we change are worn to the legal limit . |
| 2 | The issues members raise are related to ignorant , inconsiderate or criminal people . |
| 3 | Blackcaps have begun wintering in the British Isles , instead of Spain , a change in migratory behaviour that scientists suggest is linked to global warming . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the information which the ‘ midyear population estimates ’ provide is limited to sex and age group and is not normally available for a finer grain of spatial unit than the local authority district and health authority area . |
| 5 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 6 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 7 | Suppose that an input signal with Fourier transform is applied to a four-terminal network for which the transfer function is . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ All I want is to speak to one of the doctors . ’ |
| 9 | All I want is to get to bed as soon as possible . ’ |
| 10 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 11 | Say was remanded to Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen and the case continued was without plea until Thursday . |
| 12 | Any commission they receive is added to the money being put in the scheme or plan so benefiting the client . |
| 13 | As we have already discovered , many of the problems we face are related to the way we see things , our world view . |
| 14 | Alternatively , just hang plants from hooks above the window , or stand small pots of plants along the windowsill , making sure that the ones you select are going to be happy with the kind of light , temperature and humidity you are providing . |
| 15 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 16 | ‘ 'We 're going to Disneyland , ’ Paul says . |
| 17 | Others love a day by the sea or an afternoon in the country ; and many most enjoy being taken to the homes of relatives or friends for a meal . |
| 18 | Religious programmes such as church services are televised already , however these classes mark the start of increasingly more air time being given to churches . |
| 19 | Inspector Ghote Draws a Line is a story ( on the theme of should lines be drawn ; should the thin ends of all wedges be repulsed ? ) in which Ghote is sent to a house in the deep Indian countryside to find out who is threatening with death the old Judge who lives there . |
| 20 | But time is tied to the wrist |
| 21 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 22 | The endogenous PPT gene or the PPT promoter when linked to a reporter construct is expressed to high levels in cultured adult rat ganglia ( 5 ) . |
| 23 | The lessons of A Course In Miracles provide many wonderful affirmations such as — ‘ There is nothing to fear ’ , ‘ I could see peace instead of this ’ , ‘ All that I give is given to myself , ‘ All things I think I see reflect ideas ’ , ‘ Let me be still and listen to the truth ’ , ‘ Light and joy and peace abide in me ’ , ‘ Today I will judge nothing that occurs ’ , and ‘ The past is over . |
| 24 | In January 1975 the contract for the buildings as they now stand was awarded to Messrs A A Quinn of Tandragee at a price of £54932 . |
| 25 | The working groups are currently on working on that , and they , my colleagues I assume are talking to the the officers of the Social Services about that , what is happening , but the final outcome has yet to appear . |
| 26 | And I remember being called to Caernarfon once , during the time , asking me why did I have such a lot of surplus of points . |
| 27 | If you like being condemned to death and followed around by loonies with slippers on and becoming involved with weird prophecies from the dawn of time , it 's a lot of fun ! |
| 28 | So religions , symbolic systems , and ideologies develop a metaphysical life of their own and acquire qualities which stubbornly resist being reduced to mere reflections of the social order . |
| 29 | This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress . |
| 30 | like Alligator Gun for example I know is coming to the , to the Kings up the road here quite soon and then it 's going to Glasgow later on , and I keep thinking every time this sort of thing , thing 's happening I keep thinking we could be dealing with these |