Example sentences of "[that] is [vb pp] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The network news programmes provide only a ‘ headline service ’ , nothing can be dealt with in any depth and everything that is covered has to be supported by good televisuals . |
| 2 | But suppose we think that everything that is said purports to be a statement of fact , and suppose we think that for someone to be justified in saying what he says he must say it on the basis of something he has observed . |
| 3 | From this amalgam of ideas there emerges a vision of collective ownership of social and economic property that is managed according to democratic principles . |
| 4 | Swanton 's presentation of the poem is an exercise in detailed précis and commentary ; the only complexity of any credit that is found added to " " pure narrative at its simplest and barest " " is a little irony in the incredible moral comment passed by the narrator on the clerk 's desires : ( In this he was wrong ! : this might , however , be translated " This caused him grief ! " ) |
| 5 | At a 1 : 1 000 000 scale each overlay consists of 200 Mb of data , a figure that is expected to increase to 500 Mb when the digitization programme is completed in 1989 . |
| 6 | ‘ Visa International , the biggest credit-card company handles over 6 billion electronic transactions a year — a figure that is expected to rise to 15 billion by 2000 . |