Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issues members raise are related to ignorant , inconsiderate or criminal people . |
| 2 | Blackcaps have begun wintering in the British Isles , instead of Spain , a change in migratory behaviour that scientists suggest is linked to global warming . |
| 3 | Say was remanded to Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen and the case continued was without plea until Thursday . |
| 4 | The endogenous PPT gene or the PPT promoter when linked to a reporter construct is expressed to high levels in cultured adult rat ganglia ( 5 ) . |
| 5 | So religions , symbolic systems , and ideologies develop a metaphysical life of their own and acquire qualities which stubbornly resist being reduced to mere reflections of the social order . |
| 6 | Thus pay is tailored to individual performance . |
| 7 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 8 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 9 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 10 | These features , it is argued by Snow ( 1977 ) , Rondal ( 1983 ) and others , provide the child with what is , effectively , graded instruction concerning the formal structure of the language and the way in which form is related to intended meaning . |
| 11 | DUNDEE UNITED have been invited to Central America to face Costa Rica , the dark horses in Scotland 's group in the World Cup finals . |
| 12 | Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ . |
| 13 | Up to now , objects have been related to external contextual dimensions in an unmediated form , without consideration of their internal organization . |
| 14 | Improved handling has resulted from a series of innovations most of which have been related to aerodynamic efficiency . |
| 15 | These changes have been related to volcanic activity in this eruptive neighbourhood . |
| 16 | As far as I know , the only suggestions that have been put forward as a possible cure for this problem have been related to dietary deficiencies . |
| 17 | From the moment of their birth my children have been exposed to non-sexist parenting . |
| 18 | Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children , particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour . |
| 19 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 20 | First , it has dismissed a number of head teachers appointed by the Sandinistas , and teachers who have objected to changes being made by the government have been transferred to other schools . |
| 21 | Three of the rarest lichens in the Brecklands are suffering from factors such as acid rain , nitrate pollution and conifer invasion , and specimens have been transferred to other sites , where they are thriving . |
| 22 | Most of the animals seized have been transferred to other farms in Gloucestershire where many have fully recovered . |
| 23 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 24 | ‘ Confidence ’ , indeed , has been such a marked characteristic of the public school boy that many boys have been sent to public schools mainly to acquire it . |
| 25 | The textures and general characters of the gneisses suggest that these rocks have been metamorphosed to high grades such that they are migmatised ( melted ) in places . |
| 26 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 27 | But the links have commonly been flawed in two ways : they have involved little risk of penalty for poor performance ; and they have been tied to short-term measures ( generally year-by-year ) . |
| 28 | Thousands of preachers of the Gospel have been stirred to renewed zeal by reading the Reformed Pastor . |
| 29 | Here he describes the wetlands of Lincolnshire : ‘ Fens of water , mud , wildfowl , frogs and agues have been converted to rich pasture and arable worth from 20 shillings to 40 shillings an acre : health improved , morals corrected and the community enriched ’ . |
| 30 | The data were originally analogue and have been converted to digital form using 10 nT intercepts along the flight lines . |