Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 2 | Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education . |
| 3 | Sooner or later this burden will have to be faced up to in the form of higher taxation either now or in the future . |
| 4 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 5 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 6 | Demonstrations began on 11 February in Stepanakert , the regional capital , and led to the adoption of a resolution by the regional soviet on 20 February which called for Nagorno-Karabakh to be transferred back to Armenia . |
| 7 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 8 | Despite a statement by Selwyn Lloyd , the Foreign Secretary , in the House of Commons on 23rd July that there was ‘ no question of large-scale operations by British troops on the ground ’ , Army units had to be flown up to the Oman from Kenya to support the Sultan 's armed forces in crushing the rebellion . |
| 9 | An abrupt end to the affair came three days later when refugees were awakened before dawn and taken to airports to be flown back to Albania . |
| 10 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 11 | To facilitate the mass launch , most of Wasp 's Wildcats had to be flown off to loiter overhead . |
| 12 | The corny raucousness which ensued of course meant that the television volume had to be turned up to window-shaking levels so that the happy couple could savour the exquisitely enunciated phrasing of Arnold Schwarzenegger 's lines over the noise of their munching . |
| 13 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 14 | A magical brazier in the north-west corner has a number of branding irons heating in it , and next to it is an inlaid marble slab with iron supports which has room for a body to be strapped on to it , plus a tray of gleaming metal scalpels , thumbscrews , small-bone crunching implements , pincers and similar implements . |
| 15 | She did n't want to be escorted back to the apartment by him . |
| 16 | At last she seemed to be getting through to him . |
| 17 | we only now seem to be getting round to recognising it . |
| 18 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 19 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 20 | His father , Keith , said : ‘ He was in terrible shock for a while but he seems to be getting back to his normal self . ’ |
| 21 | route 6 to be cut back to Tooting Junction and the Mitcham Fair Green — Cricket Green section to be given up . |
| 22 | With the threat of war approaching , a Cadet Corps was formed and my Sunday school teacher provided the fifteen shillings necessary for the purchase of a second-hand uniform , which had to be cut down to boy 's size . |
| 23 | As for the civil service , it had to be cut down to the lowest level necessary . |
| 24 | That 's all you 've got to go , so them poles have got to be cut down to five foot , two five foots , four , four five foots |
| 25 | The government attempted to dispel confusion by allowing from April 6 a certificate of language proficiency to be presented up to nine months after applying for citizenship . |
| 26 | The fuel was meant to be heated up to forty degrees centigrade . |
| 27 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |
| 28 | Blood sugar needs to be kept up to the correct level in order to allow both body and mind to function correctly , and the body is very clever at informing us of its requirements . |
| 29 | No provision could be made for the selection of books to be kept up to date and they are not much used now , but there is an excellent service of books from the Argyll and Bute District library for the residents and patients in the hospital . |
| 30 | The Law Societies have renewed the research contract to enable the Report to be kept up to date , and to help assess how the other Member States are implementing the Directive . |