Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoffman highlights a variety of peculiar stylistic traits in a corpus of German texts written by Turkish immigrants , and shows that stylistic analysis needs to be sensitive not only to formal linguistic devices , but also to the way in which such devices operate within wider patterns of action that are linked to social and situational contexts . |
| 2 | It lies with his distinction between a form of consciousness directed to ‘ practical ’ , ‘ material ’ or ‘ real ’ activity and a different form of consciousness that is directed to social relations and is taken as constituting ideology . |
| 3 | This is based in part on the growth of effective party organisation , which has steadily weakened parliament 's original critical role , and in part on the emergence of a complex civil service structure with access to information and technical expertise that are denied to ordinary Members of Parliament ( Poggi , 1978 ; Crossman , 1963 and 1975–7 ) . |
| 4 | The possibility therefore exists that there are specific T cell epitopes within the adenovirus 12 E1b protein — A-gliadin sequence homology that are confined to coeliac toxic prolamins . |
| 5 | Central to much of this new wave of work was the increased attention that was paid to political parties and interest groups . |
| 6 | There are important differences between the chapters in this part both in the nature of the demands that they make on geographic information and also in the relative importance that is attached to geographic criteria as against other issues by planners and decision-makers in these fields . |
| 7 | It would then be a classic example of double talk if an initiative that was sold to general practitioners as a vehicle for enhancing freedom turned out to be a means of constraining it . |
| 8 | The job of perceptual systems is to provide us with representations of what is happening in the outside world , representations based on information gathered from receptors based in different parts of the body that are tuned to specific classes of physical events . |
| 9 | Others , including NUPE , GMBATU and the TGWU , have moved towards more widespread membership education ( including an ambitious distance learning programme in the case of the TGWU ) , involving shop stewards as lay tutors , and developing more politically aware forms of education that are related to active campaigns around particular issues . |
| 10 | The 4-META is a methacryl-substituted mellitic anhydride that is hydrolysed to mellitic acid and chelates calcium . |
| 11 | Selected titles were featured as part of a p.o.s. promotion that was supplied to participating retailers . |
| 12 | If the purpose of the fund is to collect ‘ lifetime ’ contributions in order to pay a pension that is related to final salary or earnings , it is obviously a fundamental requirement that an employee 's contributions be invested in a manner which keeps their value at least in line with rising real earnings . |
| 13 | Use of the oral contraceptive pill was associated with a small increase in risk that was limited to current users . |
| 14 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |