Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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61 In the case of the substantive apple , it is obvious that the lexeme evoked by this word can only be applied to objects of our experience which are by nature apples : it can not be said of a pen or an eraser .
62 Should the term record only be applied to written documents ?
63 Book loans to registered students can only be made to them in person , or on written application , if they quote their registration number .
64 Prior to there being a detailed component to carry the specific attribute , the relationship can only be made to the assembly space .
65 Action : Updates may only be made to the latest approved baseline for the specified root package — the discrepancy must be resolved manually
66 If marker chromosomes are used , scoring can be simplified since the expected to the observed grain counts need only be related to the total percentage length of the markers within the genome .
67 In the other indirect antecedent condition the information in the target sentence could only be related to the context sentence by the making of a bridging inference .
68 Addressing MEPs on the eve of the conference , Kohl said that steps must be taken to strengthen the powers of the EP before the next elections in 1994 , and that further national rights should only be relinquished to European institutions " if there exists a clear parliamentary control at European level " .
69 They can only be taxed to the extent that there is relevant income in the trust .
70 Type in a filename and the graph template will be saved in memory and will only be stored to disk when you save it again .
71 The Brecknell-Munro ‘ B/1 ’ trolley mast was slightly offset towards one side and one end , although identical in appearance to those on Corporation cars , these could only be turned to one side and small arrows had to be painted on the bulkheads ( later inside the headlamp . )
72 alcohol can only be served to persons taking table meals .
73 A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’
74 Put that the other way round : a China that flunked this test would not only be seen to be throwing in its lot with Asia 's rogue regimes .
75 All rules are designed to achieve a particular goal , for example that liquor licences should only be granted to those of good character .
76 It could only be assimilated to it if ‘ I disapprove of prostitution ’ were treated as a tentative way of saying that prostitution is wrong , that is , as a tentative expression of an attitude against prostitution rather than as an expression of one 's awareness of one 's own disapproval of it .
77 It should be noted that Optimus say the tank should only be filled to two-thirds of capacity — a little over a tenth of a litre .
78 The revaluation reserve shall only be reduced to the extent that the amounts transferred from it are no longer necessary for the purposes of the valuation method used .
79 ‘ Chairman and chief executive Paul Myners claims that Gartmore would only be sold to a party acceptable to the management .
80 The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’
81 These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice .
82 Direct Debit instructions should only be addressed to Banks in the United Kingdom .
83 So , in French , ( 45 ) is ambiguous as to whether there is one or more addressees , but ( 46 ) can only be addressed to a single addressee : Vous parlez francais ? ( 46 ) Vous etes le professeur ?
84 After landing , the aircraft was found to have split fabric and extensive minor damage to the wings , which could only be attributed to overstressing at high speed .
85 If nothing in heaven or earth is ‘ beyond the power of Allah ’ — if Allah , in other words , is omnipotent — then this quality can only be attributed to Him and to no-one else .
86 The release included statements that ‘ the discovery will be relatively easy to make into a usable technology for generating heat and power ’ ; and that ‘ this generation of heat continues over long periods and is so large that it can only be attributed to a nuclear process ’ .
87 Quite why some of the leading golfers in the world started to behave like 18 handicap amateurs can only be attributed to the special pressures which the Ryder Cup produces .
88 As the key range , nine digits , is potentially 10 000 times the address range , 100 000 , even division can only be expected to equal or very marginally improve on perfect randomization .
89 The model predicts that vulnerability factors can only be expected to be revealed amongst women experiencing major difficulties or who have recently experienced a severe event .
90 Most dishes take about 8 to 10 hours to cook , but some foods , such as pasta , can only be added to a dish halfway through , otherwise they disintegrate .
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