Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The program stack is initialised to begin at HIMEM and , because of this , you can not change the value of HIMEM when there is anything on the stack . |
| 2 | Obviously , if you have only reserved the code , you must re-enter Option 9.3.0 when the item is initialised to change the state to 2 . |
| 3 | On the contrary , much of it — the taxation proposals in particular — is calculated to sacrifice our competitive edge . |
| 4 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
| 5 | I wish to correct a wrong impression that has gained some credence amongst the ignorant and unreasoning public , that sign language — the agency through which we inter.exchange thought and opinion — is calculated to do injury to the intelligence of the deaf and dumb . |
| 6 | It is calculated to stir the Greeks against the destructive influence of Achilles , whose self-indulgence has sent ripples of discontent through the Greek forces . |
| 7 | It is calculated to prick the envy of a modern pilgrim : Rome , Sutri , Siena , San Gimignano , Lucca , Borgo San Donnino , Piacenza , Santa Agata , Ivrea , Aosta , the Great St Bernard Pass , Saint-Maurice , Lausanne , Pontarlier , Besançon , Rheims , Laon , Arras , Guînes and the Channel . |
| 8 | Since the 16th century legislation has established an inquisitorial form of investigation into the dealings and assets of bankrupts which is calculated to yield potentially incriminating material , and in more recent times there have been many other examples , in widely separated fields , which are probably more numerous than is generally appreciated . |
| 9 | Tax is deducted from all interest payments at a ‘ composite rate ’ which rate is calculated to yield that amount of tax which would have accrued to the Exchequer had the standard rate been applied only to the interest received by those liable to pay tax . |
| 10 | The temperature T 2 is not of course an experimentally measurable quantity but is calculated to lie approximately 50 K below the experimental T g and can be related to T g on this basis . |
| 11 | Francis Maginn dominated the proceedings and proposed a resolution in the following terms : That this Conference is of the opinion that the combined system , as advocated by Dr E M Gallaudet before the Royal Commission , is calculated to confer the greatest benefit upon the greatest number of the deaf and dumb . |
| 12 | Nothing , simply nothing , is calculated to put a railway enthusiast on his mettle than for somebody or some organisation to say that something is impossible . |
| 13 | Lord Diplock laid down the essentials for a passing-off action : 1 ) a misrepresentation 2 ) made by a trader in the course of trade 3 ) to prospective customers of his or ultimate consumers of goods or services supplied by him 4 ) which is calculated to injure the business or goodwill of another trader and 5 ) which causes actual damage to a business or goodwill of the trader by whom the action is brought . |
| 14 | The largest landslide of all in the Alps , that of Flims in Switzerland , is calculated to have brought down a mass of three cubic miles of material . |
| 15 | ‘ On your honour ’ is calculated to make me break down and confess . |
| 16 | Factually , it is the operation of the port and opening of the Gillingham Gate throughout 24 hours which is calculated to attract the vehicles up and down those roads in the immediate vicinity of the port . |
| 17 | Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives . |
| 18 | The percentage is calculated to reduce the WDV to the scrap value over the estimated life of the asset . |
| 19 | The percentage is calculated to reduce the WDV to the scrap value over the estimated life of the asset . |
| 20 | Harkabi described the idea of a ‘ transfer ’ — the mass expulsion of Palestinians — as just the kind of project that is calculated to lend the struggle its absolute , ‘ existential ’ character . |
| 21 | Apart from its main function of storing a set of measures this procedure contains some diagnostics and also outputs a dot each time a measure is calculated to show the user that the program is running correctly . |
| 22 | The God who is hidden to sight and beyond human understanding is also the God made manifest in our earthly environment . |
| 23 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 24 | a relief printing process in which a raised image is inked to produce an impression ; the impression is then transferred by placing paper against image and applying pressure . |
| 25 | VR1 is adjusted to optimise the large signal handling capability of the circuit . |
| 26 | If my car is adjusted to take unleaded , can I still fill up with leaded ? |
| 27 | Sometimes the simple margin formula is adjusted to take account of any change in the reference interest rate since the last coupon reset date . |
| 28 | Earnings per share are up er , more than forty percent over the same period last year and when the E P S is adjusted to take account of the non-operating items , the figure has increased by nearly ninety percent . |
| 29 | The input is adjusted to set the output some standard level ( such as the rated output power ) . |
| 30 | In the long run it is by making efficient investment decisions that capacity is adjusted to ensure that this price also reflects long-run marginal cost . |