Example sentences of "to be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay in the bed , touching Emily with fingers too rough for her skin , wondering what he could give her that would even approach what he thought of her ; waiting to be gone to his own place . |
| 2 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sure , but the best thing is if I know everything , then I can judge how much has to be said to Mother Clare . ’ |
| 5 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 6 | Instead , conjunction signals the way the writer wants the reader to relate what is about to be said to what has been said before . |
| 7 | I think that ought to be said to staff . |
| 8 | Whether to mystify me once more or because there was no more to be said to a stranger , I could n't tell . |
| 9 | I think perhaps what 's going to be said to you to the rest of the day erm will actually bring out the key points tha that Hughie was trying , trying to make . |
| 10 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 11 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 12 | Wilko must have fome faith in his ability … he seems to be trying to ‘ break ’ him in somehwat like Speed . |
| 13 | But if we are to be fixed to the Deutschmark , that should be an agreed and acknowledged policy . |
| 14 | Now they wait amid property speculators and TV celebrities who went out with them but stayed somewhere smarter , and negligent Seychellois airport operatives , for a new engine to be fixed to their Airbus . |
| 15 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 16 | Muslin is another good choice , but it will have to be fixed to a well-made frame that fits the tank exactly . |
| 17 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 18 | These are usually imitation lead or stone ornaments depicting the faces of gnomes , cherubs or sometimes the head of a lion , and are flat on one side to enable them to be fixed to a wall . |
| 19 | Programmes of study ( PS ) : ‘ the matters , skills and processes ’ to be taught to pupils ; |
| 20 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 21 | There was , then , unanimous agreement that the overriding function of the continuation schools was to prepare their pupils for ‘ the efficient discharge of the duties of citizenship ’ , but it was also understood that in order to make this viable , young people had to be taught to ‘ increase their adaptability and skill in bread-winning occupations ’ . |
| 22 | The syllabuses for GCE and CSE always prescribed quite clearly what was to be taught to pupils from the age of fourteen upwards . |
| 23 | For Schein , it is ‘ the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented , discovered , or developed , in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration , and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and , therefore , to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive , think and feel in relation to these problems . ’ |
| 24 | When emeralds began to be cut , lapidaries found that their qualities were likely to be displayed to best advantage by step-cutting , and this method is still widely used for this stone , though brilliant cutting is sometimes applied . |
| 25 | Sid , being unlikely to be displayed to the company , had been excused Dickensian dress . |
| 26 | Move the cursor onto the very first letter of the paragraph which is to be joined to the end of the paragraph above it . |
| 27 | The matron moved towards Elinor 's bed on legs that seemed to be joined to her feet without ankles : she did not walk so much as stomp . |
| 28 | I longed to sleep with her , I longed to be joined to her . |
| 29 | Instead , a red quark has to be joined to a green and a blue quark by a " string " of gluons ( red + green + blue white ) . |
| 30 | If the gutter is to be joined to existing cast iron guttering ( next door 's , perhaps ) , the appropriate connector will be needed . |