Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent changes in government policy , and the reform of many sporting federations have led some commentators to predict that South Africa will be effectively cleared for readmission to the Olympic movement . |
| 2 | ( b ) Quality words have meanings which may be effectively presented in contrast to their opposites by means of objects which best bring out their opposing qualities . |
| 3 | Such is the importance of these events that none of the radical changes in Japan over the last 150 years can be properly understood without reference to them . |
| 4 | Any batteries that do not come out should be gently moved from side to side to allow them to unhook . |
| 5 | Falling industrial employment could in the past be better characterized by reference to product sectors such as cotton , 1945–61 , or coal mining , which lost 317,000 jobs from 1961 to 1971 . |
| 6 | A desk with an adjustable sloping top is useful as it provides storage space too , but probably the most practical aid , especially as the pupil progresses into secondary school , is a light , portable reading stand that can be easily taken from room to room as required . |
| 7 | The problems of such an approach can be easily identified in relation to Stubbs ' description above of the varied functions of literacy . |
| 8 | This can be best calculated by reference to accurate time-cost information . |
| 9 | We have seen how the three strategies of recognition involve the lexicon in different ways , and differences in the processing of words can be best explained by reference to this notion . |
| 10 | It is important to note what the purpose of the definition was before being too critical of the notion that legal problems can be objectively defined by reference to specific situations . |
| 11 | The difficulties involved in trying to explicate the concept are so insidious and irksome that , understandably perhaps , one is often tempted to say that they are not crucially important and that the problems that can be profitably discussed in relation to experiences are no different from those that arise in connection with any other " natural phenomena " ; and , consequently , that the method of investigation with regard to all phenomena , experiences included , is , or at any rate , ought to be , the same . |
| 12 | They vary greatly in length , scope , selectivity and reliability , and must be carefully evaluated in relation to the stock revision in progress . |
| 13 | The goods must be openly displayed for sale to the public . |
| 14 | But a diminishing , though still powerful , minority ensured that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was kept alive and could even be temporarily revitalized from time to time when there was a transient upturn in Germany 's fortunes or the promise of suitable retaliation for people 's miseries . |
| 15 | These are firstly , the formulation of clear objectives and , secondly , planning , as resources must be clearly related in advance to objectives . |
| 16 | A small proportion of babies born with toxoplasmosis ( 1 in 10 ) will be severely affected with damage to the brain and eyes . |
| 17 | It can be uniquely specified with reference to all the categories set up in a description of the form of the language concerned ; it thus represents the intersection of a grammatical item and lexical item . |
| 18 | The distinction can be interestingly explored in relation to the very large amount of art — painting , sculpture , architecture , music and ( in a different sense ) literature produced within the variable social relations of the Christian church . |
| 19 | Such monitoring should not only be backward , it must be forward looking and where it can be seen that a task has taken longer than anticipated , the effect of such delay should be immediately considered in relation to the overall programme . |
| 20 | The exclusive Community competence arising from the existence of Community legislation may be particularly illustrated with reference to restrictions on the free movement of goods . |
| 21 | The dilemma of third party creditors to an international organisation can not be simply resolved by recourse to the domestic analogy of corporation law . |
| 22 | Local authorities would be well advised in future to preface all their decisions with the words : ‘ Having had regard to all relevant matters and having disregarded all irrelevant matters , and having considered the interests of all those likely to be affected , resolved that' etc . |
| 23 | The movies were something very new and they soon developed a unique and distinctive position within the culture but that position can only be fully understood by reference to that context of nineteenth-century popular culture from which they emerged . |
| 24 | Products may be adversely affected by exposure to atmospheric humidity but if this happens in the product in its sales pack , it indicates that the pack provides inadequate protection from the atmosphere . |
| 25 | This means that the banks must hold enough cash and assets that can be readily turned into cash to be able to meet any demands from their customers . |
| 26 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 27 | We may regard it as sharing with positivism the view that the significant features of a legal system ( that is , its aims and components ) can be adequately understood without reference to the political or economic realities in which the legal systems operates . |
| 28 | However , it must be emphasised that generally hyperlipidaemia combined with diabetes mellitus can be adequately treated with attention to dietary measures , promoting weight loss and improving glycaemic control . |
| 29 | The unique militancy of Russia 's working class , then , can not be adequately explained by reference to the deprivation among workers , to the prominence among them of rural migrants , or to the leadership provided by the Bolshevik party . |
| 30 | This is surprising when one remembers the importance frequently given to local housing need which can only be satisfactorily defined in relation to an understanding of social groups and information on incomes . |