Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the government has not yet backed up this realization with sufficient hard cash , and the benefits available for supporting relatives are paltry compared to the costs incurred by the state if someone is in long-term institutional care . |
| 2 | Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own . |
| 3 | Reverting again to the 11+ , it would have been possible to respond to the results of the tests by saying , ‘ boys are less able at age 11 — they are failing to make proper use of their primary school education ’ or , as in fact happened , by removing the responsibility from individual boys and situating it elsewhere , in this instance in biology . |
| 4 | Reports of the funding , which had been illicit according to the law of the former Soviet Union , had begun to emerge in recent months , and the Russian government hoped that some of the money might be recoverable . |
| 5 | If tens of thousands of people are prepared to take to the streets and to camp outside obscure air-force bases for months on end , what will they do when cruise becomes a reality ? |
| 6 | As is most common in holistic healing , too few people are prepared to stick to the dietary disciplines –or long . |
| 7 | Previously , the Bank had been willing to lend to the houses , leaving their bill holdings intact ; also , of course , the houses knew the lending rate they would have to pay . |
| 8 | Interiors are light owing to the large clerestory and aisle windows . |
| 9 | The parents and their action group had been free to talk to the press . |
| 10 | Secondly , the decisions must be about units which are self-contained according to the problem definition . |
| 11 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |
| 12 | ‘ If any of you have any problems , at any time , you know you are free to speak to the officers in charge of your landing or to me personally , ’ Nicholson continued . |
| 13 | The fibre layers are different according to the required stiffness at that point of the frame . |
| 14 | They have accepted that Government can avoid scrutiny of its conduct by calling to its aid a concept , ‘ national security ’ , the definition of which the judges are content to leave to the executive ( see the GCHQ case in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | But those figures are tremendous compared to the figures I used to have , because we update these every two years , and the ninety ni eighty to ninety figures were poor , and the and worse than that between er er you know the previous two years . |
| 16 | Philosophers have often been content to assign to the mind features that they are unwilling to ascribe to the physical world . |
| 17 | There are a few exceptions amongst the sea slugs which are herbivorous belonging to the Aplysia family and commonly called sea hares . |
| 18 | ‘ Why I 'm calling , sir , is to ask if you 're free to come to The Randolph this morning . ’ |
| 19 | And all I what my my parting statement to most people , although I 'll say it right now because I 've started it , erm is that if you 're prepared to listen to the advice given by the people who 've been doing er selling advertising in these environments |
| 20 | having problems today cos she 's got the two girls there from school and they 're supposed to go to the school , the doctor , for an examination but whether she realized that I do n't know . |
| 21 | Could you please give some indication as to when you 're likely to respond to the letter sent to you on the twelve of the first nineteen ninety three ? |
| 22 | Said they 're all wearing to the party we got ta go somewhere . |
| 23 | And since it looks as if we 're all goin' to the same place , why do n't we take our kit to the left luggage then see if we ca n't find that canteen ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Like us , they 're all going to the yearly meeting in New York . ’ |
| 25 | We 're all going to the Bird and Baby . |
| 26 | We 're all going to the toilet first . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's one of the main reasons for having the newsletter in the first place , because they 're all working to the same end , but it is n't always easy to know what they 're up to , ’ says Current Account editor Brigid Cleary . |
| 28 | They 're happy to come to the rescue but most of all they want to see tighter rules regulating the ownership of such animals . |
| 29 | ‘ As long as we 're able to go to the cemetery we will keep an eye on Brian 's grave . ’ |
| 30 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |