Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite that , surprisingly few complaints about discrimination are made to industrial tribunals each year . |
| 2 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 3 | In the New Temple Period ( 1700–1470 BC ) , inlays made of shell were applied to wooden chests and other furniture . |
| 4 | We recognise the vital importance of policies being tailored to local needs . |
| 5 | However an alarming argument which crept in , and seems here to stay , was that the ‘ cream ’ ( so called ) in terms of personnel was going to private industry . |
| 6 | Once such a formulation is proposed then it can of course be applied to other phenomena ( other than those originally used ) and these are explained as additional instances of the abstractions that have been established . |
| 7 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 8 | Thus for example the questions about domestic routines and husband 's participation in the division of labour were geared to specific activities and time periods rather than to the more attitudinal or normative dimension of who ‘ usually ’ does what at what time . |
| 9 | Meanwhile an interim award of £1 was made to full-time workers ; part-time workers got nothing . |
| 10 | This initially resulted in the charge of murder being changed to attempted murder , with Professor Usher reluctantly forced to admit that his initial examination was inconclusive . |
| 11 | The link with the scary world of Spielberg was revealed to potential future students who visited the first of the university 's two open days . |
| 12 | Seeds from the faeces of three species of mammal were subjected to various light treatments and it was found that passage through two of them reduced the effectiveness with which exposure to far-red light overcame the effects of previous exposure to red light . |
| 13 | If the consumption plans of individuals are related to real wealth as well as to disposable income , then changes in the price level that alter the real value of assets ( which are denominated in nominal terms ) will affect aggregate demand . |
| 14 | Flame control : a certain amount of finesse is required to fine tune the heat output . |
| 15 | Yet no great effort of imagination is required to described Jones meaningfully and accurately as either being like those who are Tolstoy-liking or not being like those who are Tolstoy-liking . |
| 16 | At Finubar 's request the city of Lothern was opened to human merchants and Elf pilots were provided to guide the trading fleets through the approaches to Ulthuan . |
| 17 | This sense of accident is used to good effect by certain artists , for example Chris Meigh-Andrews , whose Fountain ( 1990 ) , shown at the Harris , makes use of the wiring and playback decks as elements of the sculpture itself , punning on the flow of current , images and imaged water . |
| 18 | All non-managerial personnel belong to the same union , but the privilege of membership is confined to regular workers . |
| 19 | In Fig. 3 the POU domain of pou[c] is compared to representative members of the five known classes of POU domain proteins . |
| 20 | Is he also aware that there is apprehension about the possibility of strings being attached to western aid ? |
| 21 | This paradoxical state of affairs was demonstrated to British television viewers last summer by the odd spectacle of Home Office junior minister David Mellor stepping gingerly between rows of coca plants , while on a worldwide anti-drugs fact-finding tour , anxious not to offend his Bolivian government official guide by damaging any young plants . |
| 22 | Different types of behaviour are suited to different types of measurement . |
| 23 | Often copies of memos are sent to other people for their reference . |
| 24 | After the coup in October 1979 , the Ministry of Education was passed to liberal intellectuals . |
| 25 | Are the periods of overlap being used to good effect ? |
| 26 | New powers for speedy land assembly , for plan making and the control of development were given to local authorities , consummated subsequently in the Town and Country Planning Act . |
| 27 | This problem of theory being tied to particular historical and social contexts relates closely to two other concerns linked with Castells 's work . |
| 28 | Individualistic forms of self-help are preferred to collective intervention through social policy ( Pinker , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | At a more technical level , the motion of bodies was subjected to mathematical analysis , concepts of inertia were formulated , and , as a fitting climax , Newton formulated his inverse-square law r- or gravity , which explained the planetary orbits . |
| 30 | An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny . |