Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view expressed in the cliche that ‘ the school is the heart of the community ’ is apparently held to apply to rural life in general . |
| 2 | ‘ Industrial democracy ’ on the other hand is a term which is generally taken to refer to particular practices of management already operating in certain capitalist economies ( e.g. West Germany ) or specific proposals such as those of the Bullock Committee ( Bullock , 1977 ) , practices and proposals which give some role to workers or their representatives in enterprise decision-making , but which are not necessarily linked to the overall social planning of the economy in the interests of working people . |
| 3 | Because there is space to print only a small proportion of the letters received , priority is usually given according to general interest and topicality , to contributions of fewer than 500 words , and to contributions using simple language . |
| 4 | This means an older relative , but is also understood to refer to incessant complaining — doubtless an allusion to the bird 's raucous call . |
| 5 | In the reader-response tradition this space is then filled according to individual sensitivity . |
| 6 | A large part of the world is notionally governed according to Marxist principles . |
| 7 | ( It should be noted that the name ‘ schlieren ’ is occasionally used to refer to optical methods in general rather than this specific one , which is then known as the Topler-schlieren method . ) |
| 8 | Work is commonly taken to refer to paid employment , thus implying that housework and childcare are not work . |