Example sentences of "be [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough midfield player Andy Peake has been recalled to today 's team with Mark Proctor expected to be on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 2 | There is an unresolved tension between the fact that the perceptions of mystics are seen as fundamentally important to the human condition and the fact that they are given to so few . |
| 3 | Is there any wonder that their attention and energies are diverted to elsewhere . |
| 4 | After each side has declared its position , the negotiations are diverted to more technical questions about further remedies which might be tried , and then adjourned . |
| 5 | The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect . |
| 6 | Getting the circulation going ensures you are helping to efficiently pump gallons of blood around your body . |
| 7 | Issues of eurobonds are limited to highly rated and usually well known borrowers so investors do not require additional security in the form of specific claims on assets provided by domestically issued debentures . |
| 8 | This is not surprising as the dog 's capacity to associate a form of behaviour and the consequences of it are limited to less than two seconds . |
| 9 | Shell International petroleum 's Head of Group Recruitment , Adrian Loader , wrote that : ‘ The Shell Group very rarely uses headhunters to recruit and the exceptions are limited to quite specific cases . |
| 10 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
| 11 | Clients are taught to initially monitor their self-statements in any chosen situation or task . |
| 12 | A number of other models have been suggested for the development of scientific knowledge , but these models are measuring the concomitants of scientific growth — the manpower , costs , publications , citations , etc — and none has so far been developed to fully describe the growth of knowledge itself , although Goffman 's work seems to have some predictive value . |
| 13 | By the outbreak of the war the State had reorganised the railways into four companies where there had been 130 before ; nationally owned corporations had been created in broadcasting and air passenger transport ; a national grid for electricity supply had been created and a national supply industry organised ; agriculture had been rescued from the doldrums by regulation of its prices and quota systems ; while encouragement had been given to sometimes savage reductions of capacity in shipbuilding , textiles and mining . |
| 14 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 15 | Magnitudes have been given to only one-tenth , because it is almost impossible for the naked-eye or binocular observer to distinguish differences of less than this ( though I agree that some people claim to be able to do so ; I certainly can not ) . |
| 16 | This has been referred to frequently and the panel meetings where I 've been present erm the authority has agreed that Council and what it 's doing is to using a review of the District Planning Procedure is going to list this entire process working in partnership with Hertfordshire 's own Organisation , County Council , the department of transport , and other relevant erm national and local government Organisations as well as of course with and are the owners of the site . |
| 17 | The incident had never been referred to again and Dorothea did not believe that Alida would remember it . |
| 18 | She had in fact been referred to privately as ‘ The Mother of Us All ’ for some time . |
| 19 | This has been referred to previously in the text , but there are two additional points to note . |
| 20 | This point has already been referred to above . |
| 21 | One , the theory/practice tension , has been referred to already . |
| 22 | I think just to conclude the the engine of growth argument , erm , has obviously been raised in relation to other new settlements , notably Cambridge and and this has been referred to already , erm the situation in Cambridge is different to York in in that the level of growth that 's that 's anticipated for that city is is is significantly higher , and the new settlement erm proposals there have been considered in in that regard and and just for the record C P R E have supported the the new settlement in that particular location , but it does seem to me that the returning to your basic point , that that erm if one applies those circumstances in Nor North Yorkshire it does fly in the face of of established policy in the structure plan , and the overriding er policy is is one of restraint in what is is considered to be one of the country 's most sensitive environmental areas , thank you . |
| 23 | The only county-wide survey , the one of importance to you ma'am is contained within the North Yorkshire Conservation Strategy of which I think you 've been referred to already . |
| 24 | We are also embarking on vitally important work on the new charity law legislation which has been referred to already , on local government legislation , in relation to both the structure of local government and the new council tax system . |
| 25 | Initially , I want to consider environmental impact assessments from a slightly different perspective from that which has been referred to so far . |
| 26 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 27 | The ideal which has been referred to more than once in earlier chapters is that heads , other teachers , governors , parents and non-teaching staff should combine their efforts in some form of corporate management . |
| 28 | The report has been referred to twice as the County Council report . |
| 29 | The archosaurs had thus acquired an intermediate position , what has been referred to as ‘ semi-erect ’ , particularly in those immediately ancestral to the dinosaur . |
| 30 | Phragmata occupying these two positions have been referred to as pre- and postphragmata mata respectively and both may be carried by either the meso- or metathorax of some insects ; no phragma is ever borne by the prothorax . |