Example sentences of "to be [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is not what was expected from Study 1 where recall seemed to be strongly related to ratings of subjective risk . |
| 2 | Anaspids also show a dorsally placed nasohypophysial opening and are therefore considered to be closely related to lampreys and cephalaspids . |
| 3 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |
| 4 | Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed . |
| 5 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 6 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 7 | Pietro Petraroia , soprintendente of the Brera , has arranged for the painting to be temporarily transferred to Milan for a detailed technical and stylistic comparison to be undertaken . |
| 8 | THE COMMON MODERN NOVEL , IN WHICH THERE IS NO IMAGINATION , BUT A MISERABLE STRUGGLE TO EXCITE AND GRATIFY MERE CURIOSITY , OUGHT , IN MY JUDGEMENT , TO BE WHOLLY FORBIDDEN TO CHILDREN . |
| 9 | ‘ These things ought , in my judgement , to be wholly forbidden to children , ’ I said , instead . |
| 10 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 11 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |
| 12 | The best friend of Princess Diana 's brother was said to have arranged for bullion to be secretly exported to India . |
| 13 | Research topics do not need to be immediately related to BP Chemicals operations but they must be on environmental matters . |
| 14 | On the face of it , hand-composition in letterpress printing seemed to be well suited to women 's " dexterity " . |
| 15 | American station design had found a truly contemporary style which proved to be well suited to station scale . |
| 16 | An American report found heart rate to be positively related to blood glucose ( Stamler et al , 1975 ) . |
| 17 | We happened to be talking about the diary habit which , nowadays , seems to be largely confined to politicians . ’ |
| 18 | Do you want to be slowly battered to death , before dying in agony ? ’ |
| 19 | Not all poems are sufficiently lyrical , and they may be overburdened with wordy information : This kind poetry is far too prolix to be successfully set to music . |
| 20 | Confronting explicitly collectivist opponents for the first time , the Conservative party , so Fforde contends , stressed the values of the free market , turned to the classical economists to justify non-intervention , and revealed themselves to be doctrinally committed to individualism . |
| 21 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 22 | As a ‘ new ’ curricular area , the rationale for PSD modules will have to be carefully explained to students , parents and employers . |
| 23 | Also , these studies did not take into account HDL levels , which are well known to be inversely related to serum triglyceride concentrations ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Balliol also agreed to repay Edward for the help he had given in preparing the expedition by handing over to him land worth £2,000 a year to be selected from those parts of Scotland adjacent to England : in effect , the southern counties of Scotland were to be permanently ceded to England . |
| 25 | Ah , oh , oh there 's a change , you 're lucky , he used to be home talking to Sue oh excuse me you wan na break free |
| 26 | In the hot debate that followed , the benefits of fuel efficiency and alternative renewable energies sources were argued persuasively by one of the acknowledged international experts in the field , but neither minister appeared to be actually listening to Amory Lovins of the American Rocky Mountain Institute . |
| 27 | Indeed , one of the attractions of Madeira is that it does not outwardly appear to be specifically geared to tourism . |
| 28 | Ball and Lacey , for instance , have pointed to the tendency of non-specialist English teachers to be more attracted to transmission pedagogies than their specialist counterparts are . |
| 29 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 30 | In Galloway , for example , the reduced breeding performance of golden eagles is considered to be directly related to afforestation due to loss of open moorland which is their main feeding area . |