Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] [vb pp] 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 February , March and April , the median is also 47 per cent , so the value for March is altered to 47 . |
| 4 | Since the demand for money is related to several variables , according to Friedman and the monetarists , then it may be difficult to measure the precise effect of a change in one of these variables on the demand for money . |
| 5 | Redundancies have by no means been restricted to those nearing the end of their careers or whose job performance has been subject to criticism . |
| 6 | The three sessions allocated to the project after Christmas were reduced to two by other unavoidable activities in both schools . |
| 7 | The problems of learning an additional system for parents are put to one side in stressing this need for early interaction . |
| 8 | The legal age for marriage was raised to fifteen — still too young to be committed . |
| 9 | In the New Temple Period ( 1700–1470 BC ) , inlays made of shell were applied to wooden chests and other furniture . |
| 10 | We recognise the vital importance of policies being tailored to local needs . |
| 11 | Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused to several shops in the area . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So a couple of pairs were brought to this country to breed . |
| 15 | The possibility of a functional justification of the rights of shareholders was referred to earlier . |
| 16 | The committee had recommended that the age of majority be reduced to 18 generally . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Meanwhile an interim award of £1 was made to full-time workers ; part-time workers got nothing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Tait yawned into a white hand , the well-disguised yawn of a man whose only knowledge of torture was confined to that inflicted by sitting through committees . |
| 21 | A William Churcher of Surrey was sentenced to three months hard labour in 1890 for wilfully driving a horse and cart against a deaf lady , Victoria E. Brown , who had spurned his advances . |
| 22 | In India itself the number of infections was reduced to 50000 in 1961 , and in Sri Lanka in 1963 only 17 cases could be detected . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If the rate of return was increased to 10 per cent , a more realistic figure , Jenkin considered that ‘ the economics of a new nuclear station are significantly adverse against all the alternatives ’ . |
| 26 | Fifteen µl of vehicle were added to 1.5 ml of control suspensions . |
| 27 | A piece of hot news is that we now have an offer from BR to visit the Shrewsbury signal box on the 6th of April , though the number of visitors is limited to twenty . |
| 28 | On the basis of this information proportions of population are allocated to each centre giving a realistic model of how people shop . |
| 29 | Because the atoms have spin they behave like tiny magnets and the two species of atoms are attracted to each other to form so-called van der Waals molecules . |
| 30 | 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 . |