Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Products are always tested to conform to standard specifications ( as printed in the catalogue ) , but if there are specific analytical needs , they will gladly perform custom analyses , ensuring that the product will work for a particular application . |
| 2 | While it is difficult to argue convincingly that one system of taxation is superior to another , strong positions are still taken according to ideological commitment . |
| 3 | Evidence suggests that jobs are often distributed according to age-life cycle criteria . |
| 4 | Thus , the aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the characteristics and outcome of 56 cases of primary gastric lymphoma that have been morphologically reclassified according to recent knowledge of the MALT derived lymphomas . |
| 5 | Redken products are only available from selected professional salons to ensure that they are correctly prescribed according to individual hair types and requirements . |
| 6 | If it is simply that ‘ our heritage is our power ’ , and women gain strength today by looking to their sisters in the past , if what interests her is the vision of an equality between women and men , Schüssler Fiorenza might well be better advised to look to other communities in the ancient Near East . |
| 7 | In Figure 6.8 , the discrepancy between NAIRU and U F measures the extent to which exogenous cost-push factors influence an inflationary process at levels of activity which are well below what may be reasonably considered to correspond to full employment . |
| 8 | In the 10 subjects in whom antral-duodenal , and jejunal motilities were monitored simultaneously with the oesophageal recording , the different phases of the migrating motor complex were visually identified according to accepted criteria . |
| 9 | The view expressed in the cliche that ‘ the school is the heart of the community ’ is apparently held to apply to rural life in general . |
| 10 | ‘ Industrial democracy ’ on the other hand is a term which is generally taken to refer to particular practices of management already operating in certain capitalist economies ( e.g. West Germany ) or specific proposals such as those of the Bullock Committee ( Bullock , 1977 ) , practices and proposals which give some role to workers or their representatives in enterprise decision-making , but which are not necessarily linked to the overall social planning of the economy in the interests of working people . |
| 11 | Because there is space to print only a small proportion of the letters received , priority is usually given according to general interest and topicality , to contributions of fewer than 500 words , and to contributions using simple language . |
| 12 | This means an older relative , but is also understood to refer to incessant complaining — doubtless an allusion to the bird 's raucous call . |
| 13 | In the reader-response tradition this space is then filled according to individual sensitivity . |
| 14 | A large part of the world is notionally governed according to Marxist principles . |
| 15 | ( It should be noted that the name ‘ schlieren ’ is occasionally used to refer to optical methods in general rather than this specific one , which is then known as the Topler-schlieren method . ) |
| 16 | Work is commonly taken to refer to paid employment , thus implying that housework and childcare are not work . |
| 17 | The dispute was now expected to go to international arbitration , although the Belize government of Prime Minister George Price emphasized that not " one inch " of national territory would be conceded and that there would be no foreseeable cuts in the size of the British forces stationed in the country . |
| 18 | The Turks made a swift recovery after their defeat at Ankara and by 1413 Stephen Lazarević was again compelled to submit to Turkish suzerainty . |