Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 He said that from 1991–1992 there were only five times when intensive care patients had to be transferred to other hospitals in the region , but in April and May this year alone there had been five cases .
4 Procedurally , the machinery could no longer be operated since no provision had been made , in 1922 , for functions relating to the organising of elections and previously discharged by the Lord Chancellor and Clerk of the Crown in Ireland , to be transferred to new officials , and those offices had been abolished .
5 If the judge or district judge is satisfied that any proceedings can be more conveniently or fairly dealt with in some other court , he may order the action or matter itself to be transferred to that court ( Ord 16 , r 1 ) .
6 CASE 1 : the whole table is to be transferred to magnetic tape .
7 CASE 2 : a range of entries from a table is to be transferred to magnetic tape .
8 CASE 3 : selected entries are required to be transferred to magnetic tape .
9 Any NOT eligible for transfer to Russians will be included in surrendered personnel at first ( b ) above ( ie will be included among German PoWs to be transferred to 12 Army Group ) .
10 The next day I received a telegram informing me that my request to be transferred to clerical duties at the Ministry of the Interior had been granted .
11 The row culminated in the headteacher , Jim Nind , asking to be transferred to another post and four of the seven teachers , apparently exhausted by the events , going on sick leave for a week .
12 Mambo Leo was to be transferred to commercial ownership and to disappear shortly after independence , but other papers sponsored or produced by the Government took its place .
13 Enter window to be transferred to Main database :
14 Enter window to be transferred to Main database : … >
15 { Window to be transferred to Main database }
16 Continuous running is only of benefit where a large number of modules are to be transferred to offline storage or where much hard copy has already been done , and many module versions can be nominated or deleted .
17 If successful , the policy is likely to be extended to other branches around the country .
18 Access is also to be extended to Eastern Europe , using funds from the Community 's PHARE programme under a separate contract between the EC and PTT Telecom : Poland , Hungary , Czech and Slovak Republics , Bulgaria and Romania are to be connected into the system .
19 Now , the new framework being put into place has allowed the title of ‘ university ’ to be extended to any polytechnic which wishes to use it .
20 The resulting design was a radical departure from the Blackpool tradition : the 43-foot railcoach body was to be extended to 49 feet , with front doors and tapered platforms .
21 It could be argued that since these are indefensible when applied , as they are currently , to conventional criminals , they ought not to be extended to corporate criminals .
22 The same arrangement was to be extended to nuclear artillery shells when these too became available .
23 A counselling service set up in Gloucestershire to help victims of the Gulf War is to be extended to Bosnian refugees .
24 A farewell party was held last night at Hustledown House in Stanley , where three residents have already left and a further 13 are due to be relocated to other Durham County Council homes before the weekend .
25 A third objection which could be raised is that it would be undesirable if the suggested approach were to be applied to certain types of jurisdictional error .
26 Scanning electron microscopy ( SEM ) is becoming an increasingly useful tool for furthering archaeological knowledge , and it is beginning to be applied to various aspects of archaeological work .
27 However , the solution to be applied to overhead power lines , short of conversion to underground cable or high voltage DC transmission , is not so easy considering the very substantial voltages and currents involved and the heavy capital investment in existing structures .
28 It soon lost its exclusively maritime connotation and , from denoting simply work as a galley slave , came to be applied to other forms of penal servitude with hard labour .
29 Mr Takeshita bulldozed this through parliament last December , and on April 1st it began to be applied to all goods and services .
30 Taylor begged leave to deny that analogies drawn from lead mines in stratified rocks are to be applied to deep copper mines and he considered it rather hard to have " crude suggestions of this sort pressed upon us " .
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