Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 That method can be used to distances of about a hundred light years .
2 the SSR applies to the package and whether it would be understandable to users of the package .
3 the SSR applies to the package and whether it would be understandable to users of the package .
4 The Elton Committee expressed particular concern about the impact on a school of bullying and racial harassment , and recommended that head teachers and staff be alert to signs of such behaviour , deal firmly with it , and ‘ take action based on clear rules which are backed by appropriate sanctions and systems to protect and support victims ’ .
5 And there is always the problem of establishing a link between enforcement activity and its impact : most changes in water quality may be attributable to levels of economic activity and shifts in patterns of land-use , which have little to do with pollution control work .
6 The lack of notching of these , therefore , may be due to lack of time .
7 Therefore , the lack of Jun 1-193 phosphorylation in Figure 1B might not be due to lack of DNA-PK recognition sites per se but , instead , might reflect the fact that this protein does not bind DNA .
8 In all of these cases , the failure to publish the results of their research would be due to changes of circumstance which are quite understandable .
9 In all of these cases , the failure to publish the results of their research would be due to changes of circumstance which are quite understandable .
10 Some research in this area seems to indicate that this may be due to perception of the father as the more powerful figure ( according to the classic structure of our society ) , with the result of greater ambiguity in seeing the mother as a desirable model for identification .
11 Variations in laser Doppler readings between different measurement sites within a given patient may be due to heterogeneity of flow or to factors degrading the reproducibility of measurements .
12 This was considered to be due to recognition of semantically similar words to those seen in the course of the experiment .
13 This improvement may be due to vasodilation of the ventilated zones of the lung inducing a ‘ pulmonary steal ’ of blood away from hypoxic vasoconstricted zones with low ventilation/µperfusion ratio .
14 Alternatively , the discrepancies might be due to characteristics of the tasks used to assess the different types of linguistic ability .
15 As spina bifida can result from incomplete closure of the neural tube , so abnormalities in the development of the gut can be due to failure of tubes to seal properly .
16 Loss of energy , a growing fatigue and physical deterioration may be due to breakdown of the body 's own RNA and DNA , encouraged by high level stress .
17 The number of objectives should be small and they should be acceptable to managers of the business , realistic in terms of resources and timing , firm , measurable and ranked so that any conflicts in implementation may be resolved .
18 Therefore , such a towed motor vehicle can be subject to offences of using without tax , insurance or in contravention of the Construction and Use Regulations .
19 The FSA provides that Investment Business will be subject to conduct of business rules , compliance with which has to be monitored by the ICAEW as an RPB .
20 This offer will be subject to approval of shareholders at Johnson Mattheys AGM on 13th July 1993 .
21 Such interest arising after the date of death will be subject to deduction of Basic Rate Income Tax in the normal way .
22 Preference shares may carry the right to conversion into ordinary shares and will usually be redeemable to provide the institutions with an exit equating to repayment of a loan ; ( d ) determining the amount of loan finance required from the banks , taking into account the provisions of ss338 and 349 TA 1988 , which require annual interest payable by Newco to be subject to deduction of basic rate income tax at source unless it is paid to a bank carrying on a bona fide banking business in the United Kingdom and is in respect of an " advance " .
23 As was the case under the previous law , there is no power to ban specific as opposed to classes of marches , or all marches , and a proposal to the effect that there should be such a specific power was rejected , on the grounds that it would place the police in a situation where they would be subject to allegations of political motivation and partiality whenever they exercised the power to seek a ban on a particular march .
24 The fact that review may occur relatively rarely for any one agency , the fact that the agency may still be subject to pressures of time and cost which incline it towards a narrow bounded rationality , the relative strength of different interest groups pressing upon the agency , and the competence of the court to assess whether such an authority has improperly excluded a particular policy option , can all combine to limit the effectiveness of this aspect of judicial scrutiny .
25 Many organizations , at particular times , will be subject to shortages of resources .
26 This same requirement will be met by defining European citizenship [ UK reservation ] , to be additional to citizenship of a member state , as well as by taking account of … the particular interests of the regions .
27 A potential offeror or its advisers may accordingly acquire shares in the target and use this right to ascertain the compensation which would be payable to directors of the target if they were dismissed and any golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.1 below ) which may exist .
28 However , it does suggest that the issue of how and why children come to be labelled as abused is a problem in its own right , and one which may well be prior to questions of cause and control .
29 Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks .
30 It is er er the police auth authorities are would not be robust to changes of government , they would not be responsive to the leads of local people as expressed through their elected members and the er the Government 's proposals are inadequate as a final remind the Committee that at second reading thirty f er five out of thirty seven speakers spoke against largely against th the tenor of the Bill with er er wi with with various reservations o of all kinds .
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