Example sentences of "[n mass] is [verb] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Each cathode ( k ) lead of the left hand line of l.e.d.s is connected to the anode ( a ) lead of the right hand l.e.d.s .
2 If payment is not made by the due date then 10% is added to the bill no excuses are accepted …
3 Data is written to a floppy disk by a double set of heads that pass very , very close to the disk surface .
4 When data is written to the hard disk , the cache moves it straight to the hard drive , normally , rather than holding onto the data and doing it later .
5 Having been manually entered into FDC locally , the data is transferred to the head office over the telephone line , via a dedicated BT line and Mercury dial-up lines .
6 Any request for that data is fed to the faster silicon , rather than the slow hard drive , which increases perceived performance dramatically .
7 Within each chapter the chemical and physical properties and applications of a wide range of surfactants are succinctly and lucidly described ( toxicological and environmental data is left to an appendix ) .
8 Handwritten data is input to a computer via an electronic tablet which accurately captures x , y coordinate information of pen-tip movement .
9 But if data is imported to a spreadsheet , the imported data 's structure must be stripped away , and this severs the intelligent data connection between server and client .
10 So , for example , £104 is added to the rates bill for a three person household and £156 for a four person household .
11 The £100,000 is lent to an underlying company or used to subscribe for share capital in the underlying company .
12 In N. emarginata , it appears from initial observations that storage of viable sperm is limited to a period of two or three months .
13 not provide that the buyer 's duty to account to the seller for the proceeds of sub-sales is limited to the buyer 's outstanding indebtedness to the seller .
14 This would avoid the ‘ assumption that the effect of the media is limited to the potency of their messages ’ .
15 Furthermore , unless the exclusive control for the welfare of the children and young people is transferred to the residential sector once they are received into care , then some division of labour is inevitable and necessitates decisions about when fieldwork ends and residential work begins .
16 Concern with production is defined in terms of task completion while concern with people is related to the emphasis on the needs of the individual , i.e. a process orientation .
17 In this type of survey a sample of people is recruited to a panel and their attitudes are surveyed at different times .
18 Overall , whilst this variation undoubtedly includes examples of good assessment practice , there is also evidence that the general level of social services assessment of older people is restricted to the assessment of need for specific services , often requested by a carer , a general practitioner , or other third party , frequently undertaken by untrained ancillary staff ( Means , 1981 ; Black et al. , 1983 ; Bowl , 1986 ) .
19 ‘ Each shipload of stolen people is brought to the merchant 's yard .
20 Their editorial content is usually limited to items of consumer interest and the editorial staff is kept to a minimum .
21 The staff is assigned to the project on a full-time or part-time basis .
22 The second argument 's least significant byte is written to the file .
23 The first byte is set to the least significant byte of the number and the second to the most significant byte .
24 He suspended the sentences for three years , ordering that the suspension will not operate until repayment of £1,080 is made to the firms which had suffered loss .
25 For we can know that a species is related to an ancestral population by evolutionary descent , even though the details of the transition are controversial . ' ’
26 The prize of £2,000 is awarded to the most outstanding synopsis of a first book by a young author in the field of archaeology , ethnography or ancient history .
27 If the trust has £50,000 of income in year 1 and £25,000 in year 2 and £10,000 in year 3 and in year 1 £80,000 is lent to the settlor by the trust ( a capital sum includes an amount paid by way of loan — see below ) then in year 1 the settlor would be taxed on £50,000 , in year 2 on £25,000 and in year 3 on £5,000 .
28 Subtitled ‘ A Satire ’ , the novel is a bitter , pessimistic work in which the ominous subcurrents of Brooke-Rose 's earlier novels are seen in their most threatening light , and the gradual disintegration to which she had subjected the traditional realist novel in her three previous works is brought to an explosive climax .
29 The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left .
30 It is also important to realise that the efficiency of nitrogen fixation by Rhizobium spp. is determined to a large extent by the amount of nitrogen salts in the soil , so the application of nitrate fertiliser will actually inhibit bacterial nitrogen fixation .
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