Example sentences of "[vb base] to be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 2 | The superluminous masers are not well understood , but appear to be related to the mass outflow . |
| 3 | Their age is unknown but at Tyndrum they appear to be related to a late Caledonian extensional phase , with plutonic activity , associated with the main E-W Tyndrum fault ( Pattrick and others , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | To a large extent relationships and contacts with the media appear to be related to information giving and receiving , but there is a deeper and perhaps more significant aspect . |
| 5 | The E.coli rrnB and rrnD P 1 promoters for rRNAs appear to be adapted to high productivity by having a rapid promoter clearance , something that is probably related to the characteristic instability of their open complexes ( 10 ) . |
| 6 | They are and expect to be exposed to criticism and comment from many quarters within their sphere of activity . |
| 7 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 8 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 9 | Since you have the keys and I 'm a customer , I want to be taken to the vault , please , ’ she said in a loud , clear voice , her heart hammering with apprehension . |
| 10 | The Local Government ( Access to Information ) Act 1985 requires the public and press to be admitted to all council committees and sub-committees unless specified business exempts items of the agenda from the provisions of the Act . |
| 11 | Where budgets no longer allow support to be given to all services that an authority wishes to procure , decisions will have to be made as to where any cuts will fall . |
| 12 | And , for your information , my life is n't chock-full of boys , as you seem to imply — ’ not at the moment , anyway , she thought ‘ — I happen to be engaged to just the one . ’ |
| 13 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 14 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 15 | Its contents seem to be lost to history , but one wonderfully inappropriate phrase survives : ‘ His Holiness the Imam and his Christian peace . ’ |
| 16 | This is an important difference as physical abuse and neglect do seem to be associated with social , material and environmental stress and hence seem to be related to social class . |
| 17 | There are also several creatures which , while they seem to be related to the segmented worms , are rather more complex in structure and quite unlike any other animals that we know , living or fossil . |
| 18 | platelet activating factor precursors seem to be related to the calcium increase in gastric cells . |
| 19 | Fistulas after operation are a special problem of this operation and seem to be related to a failure to recognise Crohn 's disease , technical problems related to pouch construction and ileoanal anastomosis , or from secondary sepsis . |
| 20 | They are continuing factors in the life of the Church through the experience Christians have of the Spirit , and through the sacraments of water ( baptism ) and blood ( the eucharist ) which seem to be alluded to here . |
| 21 | The researcher 's own observations , albeit as yet rather unsystematic , seem to be supported to a degree by what he reads in the relevant literature and in other pieces of published research . |
| 22 | This is the kind of situation where readers seem to be relegated to the role of invisible eavesdroppers , overhearing a conversation between others . |
| 23 | Of those cancers that seem to be limited to the prostate clinically , 25–35% will have lymph node metastases . |
| 24 | At Dragonby , spacious plots appear to predominate in the excavated areas , but at Ilchester , they seem to be confined to the extramural frontages in the form of a double row of plots 20 by 50 m ( 66 by 165 ft ) in size . |
| 25 | Words in category ( 2 ) seem to be confined to black speakers , though this remains at this stage an untested observation . |
| 26 | The gates seem to be clipped to the lane marker buoy wires in some way and to be operated by compressed air as bubbles rise to the surface just before the gates appear . |
| 27 | ‘ We seem to be left to our own devices , Mr. Preston . ’ |
| 28 | Several of the questions in Document 3 seemed to imply that ‘ professional development ’ included aspects and aspirations outside the department , whereas the objectives of the departmental review set out in Document 1 generally seem to be restricted to development within the department . |
| 29 | In the absence of such a link we seem to be committed to solipsism . |
| 30 | The causes of endometriosis are not completely known , but seem to be linked to an abnormal flow of menstrual blood . |