Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes in O 3 concentrations are predominantly confined to the latitude band of injections in July . |
| 2 | The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape . |
| 3 | Both Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock are widely perceived to be liabilities to their parties . |
| 4 | Quasars are widely believed to be the cores of young galaxies . |
| 5 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 6 | The use of multivariate analysis ( common in igneous geochemistry ) has been little applied to modal compositions of sediments , although it offers considerable potential . |
| 7 | For lack of space these have previously been little shown to the public . |
| 8 | It is consistent with Lord Alverstone C.J. 's remarks at p. 395 , cited above , that if she had not done so , i.e. , if the transaction had not been properly explained to her , the security would not have been enforceable . |
| 9 | She sued the plaintiff in battery , on the ground that she had not truly consented to the operation , as its effect had not been properly explained to her . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the process of converting names into dealing clients was time-consuming and costly , although it would have been far less economical still if the Department of Trade 's regulations had been properly adhered to . |
| 11 | This had all been properly reported to Eighth Army . |
| 12 | Some fresh-faced youth , who had not been properly introduced to the enemy , now had the nerve to try and take their place . |
| 13 | Traditionally a strong , fast draught breed ( and therefore horned ) the Limousin is now an important and popular beef and veal breed which has been widely exported to European countries and to North America , Australasia and South Africa . |
| 14 | Scholarships , Grants and Awards brochures and application forms are now available and have been widely circulated to all Sections and those who have requested them . |
| 15 | That is the principle of subsidiarity , which has been widely subscribed to by political leaders across the European Community . |
| 16 | The greater absolute numbers of elderly people have been absorbed by the growing private sector despite a simultaneous collapse of long term provision in the NHS , and this has been widely attributed to the impact of the central government funding system for private residential care . |
| 17 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |
| 18 | Both old age and disability are dimensions of experience which are fundamentally linked to gender ( Morris , 1991 ) . |
| 19 | Sections 2 – 3 are expressly restricted to legally enforceable liabilities . |
| 20 | We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time . |
| 21 | If you find that the results are likely to be disastrous , and that the principles underlying it , which we detect not only from the official utterances of members of the Government but also from the more indiscreet explanations of so-called supporters of the government are pernicious and that the whole matter is one that has never been duly referred to the people of this country , then I venture to say that your Lordships have a clear duty before you — not to decree the final extinction of the Bill — because that is not what we propose , but to insist that before it becomes law an authoritative expression of the opinion of the electors of the United Kingdom shall have reached us with regard to it . |
| 22 | If there is any provision contained in these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements of which they form part which causes or would cause these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangement of which they form part to be subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 then that provision shall not take effect until the day after particulars of these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements ( as the case may be ) shall have been duly furnished to the Director General of Fair Trading pursuant to that Act . |
| 23 | the assent of the States members of the organisation to be bound by the relevant provisions of the treaty has been duly brought to the knowledge of the negotiating States and negotiating organisations . |
| 24 | Lewis was plump , and rather coarse in appearance ; Williams , who has been unkindly likened to a monkey , was actually rather ethereal in manner , with his long fingers and piercing eyes . |
| 25 | In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms . |
| 26 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 27 | Maybe , when Lisabeth had been forcibly retired to some maximum security retirement home in Frinton ( as the sign said : ‘ Harwich for the Continent ; Frinton for the Incontinent ’ ) then I 'd consider it . |
| 28 | In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease . |
| 29 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 30 | In fact , many people are effectively tied to rural areas because of their own or their spouse 's occupation , and residential choice is not free as envisaged in the theoretical residential decision-making models . |