Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supervisors with Scottish research interests may have moved elsewhere ; the purposes of the research may have changed within universities ; Research Council funding for such research may have changed or been re-distributed to other universities . |
| 2 | Mostly they do administrative work inside the station , drive for the section inspector , or are seconded to administrative work elsewhere in the station . |
| 3 | In Cornwall , some of the most intractable of wastes can be used for agriculture , for ornamental gardens and playing fields , or be converted to semi-natural habitat , as woodland or heath . |
| 4 | And patients feel confused and angry at the differences between hospitals , unsure whether they are enduring isolation unnecesarily or being exposed to undue risk . |
| 5 | To specify modules which must be locked against modification without agreement or being set to hard copy , but which nevertheless do not need to be transferred as part of the package , another tight coupling relationship must be used : |
| 6 | Finally , some sites may experience problems if they are restricting the use of the available units to specific operation types — it is no good having a TK50 available for a Primary copy if the only unit available is either not a TK50 drive , or is set to Secondary copies only ! |
| 7 | Finally , some sites may experience problems if they are restricting the use of the available units to specific operation types — it is no good having a TK50 available for a Primary copy if the only unit available is either not a TK50 drive , or is set to Secondary copies only ! |
| 8 | This is based in part on the growth of effective party organisation , which has steadily weakened parliament 's original critical role , and in part on the emergence of a complex civil service structure with access to information and technical expertise that are denied to ordinary Members of Parliament ( Poggi , 1978 ; Crossman , 1963 and 1975–7 ) . |
| 9 | These too make purchase decisions that are related to specific objectives . |
| 10 | Other additional areas that are related to managerial skills , such as publicity , and industrial relations/local authority structure , were listed by a further 15% of authorities , so that this topic in general figured quite highly as one for which a considerable number of authorities perceived a need for external course provision . |
| 11 | Others , including NUPE , GMBATU and the TGWU , have moved towards more widespread membership education ( including an ambitious distance learning programme in the case of the TGWU ) , involving shop stewards as lay tutors , and developing more politically aware forms of education that are related to active campaigns around particular issues . |
| 12 | The job of perceptual systems is to provide us with representations of what is happening in the outside world , representations based on information gathered from receptors based in different parts of the body that are tuned to specific classes of physical events . |
| 13 | Lamb House , Rye , in East Sussex is one of the few National Trust houses that are let to private tenants . |
| 14 | What seems to have happened is that they have internalised the negative images that are attributed to black people and do not feel that they should identify with them . |
| 15 | The possibility therefore exists that there are specific T cell epitopes within the adenovirus 12 E1b protein — A-gliadin sequence homology that are confined to coeliac toxic prolamins . |
| 16 | Japan now also utilises other parts of the whale 's body : blubber for food ; oil for many things , including boot polish ; whalebone in all kinds of articles ; teeth in handicrafts ; skin for leather ; and various internal organs that are put to assorted uses . |
| 17 | Hoffman highlights a variety of peculiar stylistic traits in a corpus of German texts written by Turkish immigrants , and shows that stylistic analysis needs to be sensitive not only to formal linguistic devices , but also to the way in which such devices operate within wider patterns of action that are linked to social and situational contexts . |
| 18 | With psychologists , most of them 've done English and and history or some , they 've done essay type questions that 're geared to answering questions . |
| 19 | ‘ There are probably a great many parks and recreation grounds that were given to local authorities by local benefactors or acquired by public subscription where the wording in the deeds implies that there is a charitable trust . |
| 20 | These were introduced into Persia and Anatolia in the late 19th century , but proved to be totally unsuitable for rug yarns , producing rather crude colours that were given to rapid fading . |
| 21 | The pituitary gland is one of the endocrine glands also known as ductless glands , since the materials which they produce pass directly into the bloodstream rather than being channelled to specific parts of the body . |
| 22 | A further advantage of these unions is that money saved locally is spent locally , rather than being switched to other areas , as often occurs with normal banking arrangements . |
| 23 | Data types can be defined by the user , rather than being constrained to certain pre-defined types . |
| 24 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 25 | If this seems an abstruse form of cultivation it is not one that is limited to modern agriculture , but can be found in many suburban gardens where , acre for acre , the concentrations of both fertilizer and pesticide are higher than on the average arable farm . |
| 26 | Clearly , stress has linguistic importance and is therefore an aspect of the phonology of English that must be described , but it is not usually regarded as something that is related to individual segmental phonemes ; normally , stress is said to be something that is applied to ( or is a property of ) syllables , and is therefore part of the suprasegmental phonology of English . |
| 27 | If the purpose of the fund is to collect ‘ lifetime ’ contributions in order to pay a pension that is related to final salary or earnings , it is obviously a fundamental requirement that an employee 's contributions be invested in a manner which keeps their value at least in line with rising real earnings . |
| 28 | One of the economic changes that is leading to increasing homelessness is the disappearance of low cost rented accommodation . |
| 29 | When Admiral James Watkins , US secretary of energy , instructed his Department of Energy ( DoE ) laboratories to clean up their heavily contaminated sites , he set in motion an elegant synergy that is leading to new ways of destroying pollutants . |
| 30 | There are important differences between the chapters in this part both in the nature of the demands that they make on geographic information and also in the relative importance that is attached to geographic criteria as against other issues by planners and decision-makers in these fields . |