Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the freezer at Tesco , 4lb packs of frozen petit pois are reduced by 80p to £1.69 and 2lb packs of frozen pommes noisettes are 65p , from £1.15 . |
| 2 | This is particularly unlikely to happen if , as is often the case , guide-lines are constructed with reference to existing sentencing levels . |
| 3 | How is it possible for a creature to form means — end plans for reaching a desired object , plans within which other objects are represented as instruments to the overall end ? |
| 4 | Endorphins are released in response to severely painful stimuli . |
| 5 | The point of such clauses is to put the buyer in the position where his remedies for failure to perform or defective performance under the contract are limited in fact to compelling either proper performance under the contract ( by way of rework repair or replacement ) or the return of his money . |
| 6 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 7 | The author seems more at home with that part of the study in which behavioural activities are interpreted by reference to models . |
| 8 | These forms are returned by mail to the Registration Officer for the Constituency . |
| 9 | The plots ( cumulative time per pixel ) are normalized such that all pixels are scaled in relation to the pixel with the maximum cumulative time ( the F+ pixel of group fixed ) ; the square dotted line represents the extent of the 121 pixel grid . |
| 10 | However subsequent research has shown that both negatives and passives are used in response to the presence of particular pragmatic factors . |
| 11 | Cash surpluses are delivered to carrier to Midland Cash Centres . |
| 12 | Regular meetings are held with residents to better understand their problems and share information on C&P operations . |
| 13 | However , in cold cathode luminescence machines ( see below ) , many ions are produced in addition to the electrons . |
| 14 | After filling the casks are bunged before delivery to the pubs |
| 15 | The producers ' plans are evaluated in relation to the demand outlook for the industry and the existing pattern of market shares . |
| 16 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 17 | Similarly , where rules are incorporated by reference to some other document , there should be adequate reference to draw them to members ' attention . |
| 18 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 19 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is well served by community hospitals , where outpatient clinics are held in addition to those in general hospitals , so none of the participating practices was far from a provider unit . |
| 20 | Palaces are designed by architects to be looked at rather than lived in . |
| 21 | However , despite this condition , some buyers may wish to insure after contracts are exchanged in order to be doubly certain about their investment , but this is a practice that should now no longer be strictly necessary . |
| 22 | A Fat Bloke who supports Man U informs us at length about some 5-year rule under which English Welshmen called Speed are deemed by UEFA to be Not Foreign , a rule which the management of Stuttgart Internazionale are strangely ignorant of . |
| 23 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 24 | Passata and stock are used in preference to wine for the casserole , to allow the flavour of the young lamb and vegetables to dominate the dish . |
| 25 | Under the system , C-Series supercomputer servers are connected by FDDI to the HP 9000 Series 700 workstation clusters , running under Hewlett-Packard 's HP-UX or BSD Unix 4.3 . |
| 26 | The singer 's life contained enough misbehaviour to make director Oliver Stone 's job easy ( pace that notorious gig in Miami when Jimbo bared more than his soul ) ; his songs are riddled with references to drugs and sex ; and — making the film a dead cert — he obligingly took an early bath in Paris in '71 . |
| 27 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 28 | We shall distinguish attributions as external when made by members of the dominant society to the deeds of members of the microsociety , and as internal when attributions are made by members to deeds of their own or of other members of the microsociety to which they belong . |
| 29 | The Great Hural is elected nationally and in turn elects the 50 members of the Little Hural where parties are represented in proportion to the election results . |
| 30 | Viruses can also spread if computers are linked by modems to the outside world . |