Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Among those detained in January and February were reportedly some 50 imams whose sermons the new authorities claimed were prejudicial to public order [ for Jan. 22 prohibition of political activity in mosques see p. 38703 ] . |
| 32 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 33 | However , the organization of rural workers has been crucial to the formation of the Salvadorean opposition movement and political repression has been most savage in the countryside . |
| 34 | The wavebands used are similar to those used in the Landsat TM . |
| 35 | Because the first stage of hypnosis involves learning to relax — something we all need — any side-effects experienced are likely to be very beneficial indeed . |
| 36 | Lest this account seem unduly cynical , it must be added that the individuals involved are subordinate to the functional constraints of their job . |
| 37 | Despite the drop in sales value , the Group 's volume base remained intact , the number of pieces despatched being similar to 1991 , reflecting a worldwide consumer trend towards lower-priced products . |
| 38 | Right from the times of the giant horsetails and ferns , insects had been accustomed to visiting the tops of trees to gather spores as food . |
| 39 | Professionally the years had been good to him , though it was a great disappointment to Maud that he had specialized in diseases of the mind . |
| 40 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 41 | The bulk of the reductions have been due to the recession , he argues , while emissions from power stations have fallen by only one-sixth . |
| 42 | All the plants mentioned are likely to be available from good garden centres , but cannas are not often sold as growing plants , and Perilla frutescens may be difficult to find as plants ( seed is widely available ) . |
| 43 | The years have been kind to you . ’ |
| 44 | The years have been kind to Irene , though she 's still a lot more tired and worn than even the roughest of our nurses . |
| 45 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 46 | The number of years qualified was unrelated to initial skills . |
| 47 | Since 1 August 1989 , developers of certain non-residential buildings have been liable to a self-supply charge on properties used for exempt purposes . |
| 48 | Thirdly , foreign banks have been subject to minimal regulations on their foreign currency ( non-sterling ) deposit and loan business by the Bank of England . |
| 49 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 50 | The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases . |
| 51 | These officers had been loyal to Allende . |
| 52 | The latest studies of the fossil record , however , suggested that many families had been subject to a constant trend towards increasing levels of specialization . |
| 53 | It seemed that the doctor 's hunch had been right : all these problems had been due to Candida . |
| 54 | Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes . |
| 55 | Any whose feelings overflow are liable to be seen as weak or ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 56 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 57 | The same number also believe the new curriculum and assessment changes have been detrimental to schools , with 40pc claiming education standards have fallen . |
| 58 | The research will examine the behaviour of government institutions directly providing finance for industry , such as the Japan Development Bank , as well as the interaction of government and private finance when both sources have been available to industry . |
| 59 | The two most prolonged battles of this kind , at Mavisbank near Edinburgh and Pell Wall in Shropshire , are cases where the owners have been deaf to every offer to take on the house and restore it . |
| 60 | Your editors have been kind to me , seldom taking me to task — ( or for that matter to lunch ) . |