Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central heating that works , freedom from rising damp , falling gutters , and dry rot : there 's a lot to be said to buying a new house . |
| 2 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
| 3 | The magnitude of the special needs post-holder 's task becomes clear if one considers that these skills are to be geared to assisting classroom teachers of varying lengths of career experience ( often considerably longer than that of the ‘ qualified ’ supporter ) and range of subject specialities ( beyond the supporter 's expertise ) — teachers already under pressure from many directions and with ambivalent feelings about ‘ hawing problems ’ and ‘ being seen as in need of help ’ ; and if one considers that the supporter 's extended task is to deepen these colleagues ' understanding of ‘ special ’ learning needs , to enhance their skills , discover and develop their strengths and the confidence that the professional know.how they possess can be summoned for responding more appropriately to most of the behavioural , emotional and learning difficulties they encounter . |
| 4 | In this case , time needs to be given to establishing such a way of thinking , so that we can see that our very purpose as Christians is. to grow to be more like Christ . |
| 5 | Secondly , priority needs to be given to establishing structures that will enable all general practitioners to be involved in influencing the views of the purchasing authorities , including those who have hitherto expressed little or no interest and those who already have a clear interest in participating . |
| 6 | The inevitable reduction in the amount of time likely to be given to singing challenges the Church to remedy this deficiency . |
| 7 | Moorfields Eye Hospital — consideration to be given to developing an ambulatory ophthalmic service for the North Thames area |
| 8 | The congress called for priority to be given to achieving self-sufficiency in food production and to raising the level of industrialization , stressing that both these aims depended on a politically stable environment in which democracy prevailed . |
| 9 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 10 | But both he and James Hann , the Scottish Nuclear chairman , are campaigning at present for priority to be given to defining the role of nuclear power within an overall UK energy strategy . |
| 11 | Sufficient time needs to be given to listening to the answer and then to prayer and ministry to meet the needs another member has . |
| 12 | In the longer term an owners ' association may wish to take over these activities from the management company , and some thought needs to be given to making this possible . |
| 13 | During the year under review the highest priority has continued to be given to making printed materials , received from all sources , available quickly for consultation by users of the Library , and to providing bibliographic information about the collections to users at remote locations via the Joint Academic Network ( JANET ) . |
| 14 | Consideration to be given to incorporating in the playing conditions fielding circles , team identification and white balls . |
| 15 | More thought needs to be given to finding and preserving examples of more modest farmhouses and cottages , and even a particularly characteristic ‘ semi ’ in the London suburbs or a Glasgow tenement . |
| 16 | Serious consideration needs to be given to increasing the safety of paracetamol . |
| 17 | MAS 's involvement in investigations tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and studying with the purchaser the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on the heads of agreement and the client 's warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 18 | As explained at our meeting , MAS 's involvement in due diligence tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and reviewing with yourselves the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on price and your warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 19 | Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges . |
| 20 | His own duties appeared to be limited to joining his patrons in a drink whenever he was thirsty , which seemed to be often . |
| 21 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 22 | These select committees were not intended to be tied to producing particular reports , but were to collect information and let the House and the public know what disputes were going on and what agreements were being reached within ministries , between them and between civil servants and outside pressure groups . |
| 23 | It is essential to belong to a major exchange organization , because buyers do not wish to be tied to taking their holidays in the same area year after year . |
| 24 | He observed that the fossils were found in areas populated by both deciduous and coniferous forests , and their beaks seemed to be suited to browsing on trees and shrubs . |
| 25 | Much more attention needs to be paid to examining how poor and disadvantaged people might be enabled to participate , and particular efforts should be made to find out if there are any factors inhibiting participation by Afro-Caribbean and Asian members of the community . |
| 26 | However , there is now a wider awareness of the need for greater attention to be paid to changing public attitudes and to the financially unquantifiable effects and social costs of closures to residents ( Hillman and Whalley 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Elections will then have to be held to chose the 300 members of the lower house , to be called the State Duma . |
| 28 | My own view is that while that type of system will be important in the future it may not have the central role assumed for it by John Alvey — hence my plea For more resources to be devoted to looking at real user needs and trying out alternatives to the IKBS approach . |
| 29 | Above all , they have emphasised the need for higher expectations from society as a whole about what disabled people can achieve , and have argued for the necessary resources to be devoted to helping them achieve them . |
| 30 | It is perfectly possible to imagine that memories are coded for negatively , by reducing the level of some substance or process , although in practice nearly all research seems to be devoted to trying to identify increases . |