Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adj] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The main reasons for this are due to the fact that what Freud meant by ‘ sexuality ’ is much wider in its connotations than genital intercourse between a male and a female , and also partly due to his assertion that there is no basic sociability , no herd instinct , in men .
2 Whether it is a Christian student surrounded by relativism on a university campus or a Christian family surrounded by the influence of the mass media , too few are awake to the danger .
3 Some are new to the UK , many were produced by the legendary John McClure , all have been digitally remastered .
4 Some are beneficial to the system , but others can give major problems .
5 If it were assumed , however , that a particular complainant did have an unconscious desire to be raped , could this be relevant to the defendant 's liability ?
6 Will this be available to the Trade Unions ?
7 It cost £2.10 … ( this being equal to a tradesman 's pay for a 49-hour week ) .
8 Most of these were 1948 refugees , but some were indigenous to the West Bank .
9 Educational practices can retard changes , or stigmatise them ( this is relevant to the question of generic he , which is often still insisted on by teachers ) ; publishing and the mass media can popularise a word , or conversely , fail to legitimate it ( quality newspapers , most famously the New York Times , for years refused to print the word Ms , even if the woman being written about preferred it ) .
10 This is relevant to the question raised in Section 19.1 as to whether the demarcation between non-turbulent and turbulent motion is sharp , or whether there is a ‘ grey area ’ .
11 This is relevant to the debate because no explicit estimate of the cost of funds is incorporated into this type of analysis .
12 What sort of misguided speech was that ? were they dance about it or trim here , what they 're saying very simply and this is relevant to the people who are listening to us today , is that they are not prepared to restore the cuts made by the government which they have got elected .
13 They believe this to be God 's will and that anything that hinders this is contrary to the will of God .
14 The three women say this is contrary to the wishes of thousands of people who contributed about £3 million to help troops and their families who suffered in the war .
15 This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows :
16 ‘ But this is close to an accusation of murder .
17 This is close to the rule of thumb that the temperature for the maximum of a loss peak ( or a relaxation process ) will change by approximately 7 K for each decade of change in frequency .
18 This is equal to the volume assumed to be consumed by the reduction of 12 mmol SO 4 in the three responders .
19 As regards the decline in employment in manufacturing , mathematically speaking this is equal to the growth rate of labour productivity in manufacturing minus the growth rate of output from that sector .
20 This is equal to the market value given in Fig. 7.2 .
21 It has been suggested that this is crucial to the development of the disease state , as application of amiloride by aerosol alleviates the decline in lung function in CF. It is not yet clear how a loss of CFTR function leads to this increase in sodium absorption .
22 It is not officially known whether this is attributable to the greenhouse effect or natural climate variability .
23 As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project .
24 In large measure this is attributable to the world recession which developed after the oil crisis in 1974 , although another contributory factor is associated with the failure of western societies to respond sufficiently quickly to the development of new technologies .
25 Although much of this is attributable to the tax cuts policy of the Reagan era , it also results from the military expenditure Reagan believed was consistent with his view of a strong America .
26 This is subject to a requirement that the current owner in possession originally purchased the work :
27 This is subject to the defence that the accused did not know the nature of the information or realise that its disclosure would be damaging .
28 As far as speed limits lower than the ‘ normal urban ’ 50 km/h ( 30 mph ) limit are concerned , this is subject to the consent of the Secretary of State which is ‘ in practice rarely given . ’
29 This is subject to the proviso that where it is essential that an instrument comes into effect immediately , it can be brought into effect before it is laid , but that the Speaker and/or Lord Chancellor should be informed of this and the reason for it .
30 But not all of this is available to the user .
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