Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several so-called religious visions of the Middle Ages have since been attributed to it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 3 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 4 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 5 | He thought that precisely because it was impossible for the human mind to construct an idea of God from its inherent mental resources , such an idea could only be given to it by revelation — in other words directly implanted by God Himself . |
| 6 | Book loans to registered students can only be made to them in person , or on written application , if they quote their registration number . |
| 7 | It could only be assimilated to it if ‘ I disapprove of prostitution ’ were treated as a tentative way of saying that prostitution is wrong , that is , as a tentative expression of an attitude against prostitution rather than as an expression of one 's awareness of one 's own disapproval of it . |
| 8 | If nothing in heaven or earth is ‘ beyond the power of Allah ’ — if Allah , in other words , is omnipotent — then this quality can only be attributed to Him and to no-one else . |
| 9 | The right code can only be issued to them if the tax inspector knows about their National Insurance pension ; so it is very important for your parents to let the Tax Office know in advance if they are going to receive a National Insurance retirement pension . |
| 10 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 11 | The current exhibition at the Cini Foundation in Venice , ‘ From Pisanello to Tiepolo : Venetian drawings from the Fitzwilliam Museum ’ ( until 15 June ) is also dedicated to Pouncey 's memory , while two major exhibitions have already been dedicated to him , one in 1978 at the Louvre and another at the Fitzwilliam in 1985 . |
| 12 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 13 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 14 | That may seem to trivialise the intentions of the working party which is now sifting through the comments that have already been submitted to it ( and , although the deadline passed on 30 April , it is still interested in receiving any others sent in as soon as possible ) . |
| 15 | Also please note that any Training Fund applications submitted within the last four weeks for courses organised by the Training Division have already been forwarded to them for attention . |
| 16 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 17 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 18 | However , if he 's left alone for a minute it feels like an hour to him , he can not remember what has just been said to him , therefore he will repeat himself endlessly , and he has no frame of references to enable him to take part in any kind of conversation . |
| 19 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 20 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 21 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 22 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 23 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
| 24 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 25 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 26 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 27 | It is interesting that although no one suggests that there actually was a ‘ standard English ’ in Early ME times , the doctrine of uniformity has nevertheless been applied to ME . |
| 28 | Please note that if the reason for cancellation falls within the terms of the holiday insurance policy , then any such charges will normally be refunded to you by the insurance company . |
| 29 | Your travel documents , luggage labels , etc. will normally be despatched to you or your travel agent two to three weeks before your holiday . |
| 30 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |