Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to increased fiscal control by central government , local authorities are limited as to the volume and quality of any discretionary services they wish to provide . |
| 2 | All Aitken 's evidence — uncontradicted by any other evidence — confirms that well before Curtis Brown received the £500 , instructions had been given as to the charitable destination of the money . |
| 3 | It alone can propose candidate referents ; other knowledge sources are consulted as to the appropriateness of those referents , and the first proposed candidate to be judged appropriate is accepted . |
| 4 | Something has already been said as to the assignment of ordinary debts and ‘ choses in action' ; and the law relating to negotiable instruments — bills of exchange , cheques , and promissory notes — will be dealt with in the next chapter . |
| 5 | As yet , no definitive decision has been made as to the microkernel that will be used for new versions of OS/2 , though developers are known to be working with the Carnegie-Mellon University 's Mach 3 microkernel ; in addition , there is the possibility that IBM might use the NT kernel — ‘ we could use the NT microkernel if we wanted to ’ , it said . |
| 6 | Mention has been made as to the nonexistence of an allocation for housing and as to the suitability of this forum for consideration of the effect which would take place of development with or without the existing allocation . |
| 7 | Tremendous publicity was given to the circumstances in which this movie had been made and to the way in which the director had shot some forty reels ; ‘ the eight-hour day for movie fans has not yet dawned ’ was the thankful comment of Robert Sherwood , but few critics doubted that the film conveyed much of the anger , ugliness , and brutality of the novel . |
| 8 | The development by the Pythagoreans , for instance , of important mathematical theories out of organisations concerned with mystical cosmologies and shamanistic practices is no more an exception to the way in which scientific progress has been made or to the ‘ spirit of enquiry ’ than the fact that many modern scientific achievements arise out of arcane political interests or commercial ethics . |
| 9 | When a man 's vote is wanted , he is in China ; when enquiries are made as to an overdue subscription , it is found that the member was last heard of in a shipwreck off New Guinea . |
| 10 | Simply expressed , more cautious judgements are made as to the democracy on offer within the system . |
| 11 | In planning the project , subjective judgements see Chapter 5 — are made as to the probability of having to repeat each job one or more times . |
| 12 | In planning the project , subjective judgements — ; see Chapter 5 — are made as to the probability of having to repeat each job one or more times . |
| 13 | Checks are made as to the size of members ' deposits in relation to their underwriting activities , and ensuring directors and partners are ‘ fit and proper ’ persons . |
| 14 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 15 | Some commentators have gone further and pointed to the relatively high proportion of UK production which has been exported and to the high ratio of exports of GDP in international terms . |
| 16 | Finally , some conclusions are drawn as to the desirability of the changes proposed in Working for patients . |
| 17 | This can cause difficulties if wrong assumptions are drawn as to the potential of the new body . |
| 18 | My main complaint concerning students of modern sediments is that they pay more attention to the question of how sediments are deposited than to the question as to whether or not they stay there . |
| 19 | The objection is not that such matters are raised but to the poisonous or venomous manner in which it is done . |
| 20 | But difficult questions are raised as to the nature of the relationship between law and behaviour . |
| 21 | Criticisms have recently been raised as to the increasingly short-term investment attitude of venture capital funds in the UK . |
| 22 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |
| 23 | Third , some analysis will be undertaken as to the role played by photography in forming and reinforcing these expectations of the environment . |
| 24 | A request under the Convention was received in England from the Sandefjord City Court , Norway , asking that a director and a senior employee of a London merchant bank be examined as to the ownership and control of certain assets and of a charitable trust said to control those assets . |
| 25 | The MMC proposed a behavioural remedy , that in their agreements with manufacturers , franchised dealers be allowed to advertise outside their designated territories and to acquire dealerships outside that territory , and not be limited as to the number of cars they may sell . |
| 26 | The indexer can either be constrained as to the number of themes to index per document , or be given the option of indexing as many themes as possible . |
| 27 | Nor can any statement be made as to the moral implications of any sexual or quasi-sexual act except from standpoints which must themselves be debatable . |
| 28 | said a ‘ broad principle , ’ requires an inquiry to be made as to the person with respect to whom Parliament is presumed , in the particular case , to be legislating . |
| 29 | More recently , other techniques have been devised which allow estimates to be made as to the hemisphere responsible for speech . |
| 30 | Where a licensing board : ( a ) refuses to grant , renew or transfer a licence under this Part of this Act , or ( b ) on an application for the grant of a licence under this Part of this Act , specifies , as types of liquor which may be sold under the licence , types other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made , or ( c ) on an application for renewal of a licence under this Part of this Act , does not comply with any request duly made by the applicant for a change in the specification of the types of liquor which may be sold under the licence , or ( d ) requires modifications in the rules proposed to be made as to the persons entitled to use the canteen , or withholds its consent to a variation of those rules , or ( e ) makes an order under section 42(4) of this Act , the applicant or , as the case may be , the licence-holder may appeal to the sheriff from such a decision of the licensing board . |