Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 2 | One such sceptic , a certain Montgomery , is likened to a prickly housemaid . |
| 3 | Compensation is calculated to a complex formula which includes a basic award related to gross earnings and length of service and a compensatory award which seeks to meet the employee 's actual and future losses arising as a consequence of the dismissal . |
| 4 | Influenced by the work of G.K. Gilbert , Hack argued that the concept of dynamic equilibrium provides a more reasonable basis for the interpretation of topographic forms in an erosionally graded landscape , that every slope and stream channel in an erosional system is adjusted to every other , and when the topography is in equilibrium and erosional energy remains the same , all elements of the topography are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 5 | More generally , the effectiveness of the production system depends on the way the social system is adjusted to the technical requirements ( Emery and Trist , 1960 ) . |
| 6 | The slowness of engineering to join the scheme , for example , is explained to a considerable extent by fears of the attitudes of the professional societies ( it is hoped that , in time , field combinations such as computer studies and microelectronic systems will succeed in breaching this important wall ) . |
| 7 | The software can automatically distinguish between various score types — everything from solo or piano music to conductors ' orchestral sheets with up to 16 staves per line — each part is assigned to a separate MIDI channel . |
| 8 | The training of probationers encourages this transmission , because after formal training in the depot each recruit is assigned to an experienced senior constable in the station . |
| 9 | For the process to proceed smoothly it is necessary to ensure that responsibility for overall policy decisions is assigned to an appropriate individual or group ( for instance the managing director or the board of directors ) . |
| 10 | The two clearly do not correspond ; the Raman band is assigned to the fundamental , and the IR band to the second overtone of ν 2 . |
| 11 | It is diverted to the alien nest where it drops into the cuckoo 's mouth the food that had been destined for its own young . |
| 12 | The fault which caused the Clapham crash is traced to the final installation of a new signal , number WF138 , on November 27 , 1988 , by Mr Brian Hemingway , a senior technician . |
| 13 | In Stated Cases and Bills of Suspension /Advocation in which you act , where prints have not yet been lodged , you should ensure that either six copies of the prints are lodged with , or the reason for the failure to lodge said prints timeously , is intimated to the Justiciary Office , not later than seven days before the hearing date . |
| 14 | The mill , which consists of a single long block , is joined to a gabled mill house , both of which are in good condition . |
| 15 | The stone-deaf person relies entirely upon sight throughout every phase of life , and not upon hearing , and , therefore , this sense of sight is developed to an extraordinary degree of efficiency from sheer necessity . |
| 16 | The Activity Book , illustrated in full-colour , ensures that the language work presented in the video is developed to the full through a variety of lively exercises , games , and tasks . |
| 17 | With water and dilute sulphuric acid/mercury ( II ) sulphate as a catalyst the alkyne is oxidised to the corresponding aldehyde . |
| 18 | Violations — poaching in another household 's area — is referred to a special council of eunuchs from all over India and Pakistan which meets once a year . |
| 19 | His hostility towards scientific medicine is highlighted by the passage where the artist , not to be treated by Rigeon , is referred to an eminent but stupid physician , Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonnington . |
| 20 | Such stresses are therefore called Piola-Kirchhoff stresses and , denoting such a stress by the symbols ( the upper case K reminds us that the normal is referred to the undeformed state , while the lower case j refers to the deformed state ) we have the relation where J is the Jacobian , defined earlier ( p. 15 ) , J = det . |
| 21 | Then : is referred to the deformed cross-section which is times the undeformed one . |
| 22 | For full details of the in situ hybridization procedures used in these studies , the reader is referred to the original source references and to Chapter 5 , Section 6 , in this manual . |
| 23 | Models of human information processing have been developed by a number of theorists of this persuasion and the interested reader is referred to the original publications for further details ( Broadbent , 1958 ; 1971 ; Neisser , 1967 ; Sperling , 1963 ; 1967 ; Atkinson and Shiffrin , 1968 ; Turvey , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | Walpole also gives bounds for randomly oriented fibrous inclusions in an isotropic matrix but these are not easily stated and the reader is referred to the original paper ( Walpole ( 1969 ) . |
| 25 | The reader is referred to the original papers for details ( Refs [ 30 , 31 ] ) . |
| 26 | Electric switches of the tumbler type are in a row along the bottom of the captain 's panel and the battery master is banished to an out-of-sight position low down on the pedestal where you have to feel for it . |
| 27 | For what it is worth , my view is that the student of political science is exposed to a wide range of somewhat superficial opinions , most of them barely distinguishable from the prejudices daily expressed in newspapers . |
| 28 | If the top of the egg is exposed to a sufficient dose of ultraviolet irradiation the nucleus is inactivated and is functionally useless while the cytoplasm is unaffected . |
| 29 | This diagram shows what happens if a red light is flashed every time a person is exposed to a sudden loud noise . |
| 30 | At the secondary level , unless health education is catered for solely within Personal and Social Education ( PSE ) , the main problem is liaising with the various departments to ensure that each individual pupils is exposed to an agreed core of health education . |