Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 3 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 4 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 5 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 7 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 8 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 9 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 11 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 12 | In orthodox psychoanalysis , after the repressions of pre-genital and genital sexuality had been pointed out to the analysand , the choice was then either to sublimate these impulses or to reject them rationally . |
| 13 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 14 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 15 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 16 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 17 | A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business . |
| 18 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 19 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 20 | A number of test cases on Sunday trading and the possible conflict with the treaty of Rome have already come before the European Court and all have been referred back to the various countries involved . |
| 21 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 22 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 23 | The steady increase in the number of complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's report has continued ; 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 24 | The steady increase in complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's Report has continued , 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 25 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 26 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 27 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 28 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 29 | These chapters record how the instructions given in chapters 25–31 are carried out to the letter . |
| 30 | Project management , incorporating information management , within these programmes will ensure that they are carried out to the same high standard as our taxonomic and floristic research . |