Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both old age and disability are dimensions of experience which are fundamentally linked to gender ( Morris , 1991 ) . |
| 2 | The central issue which underlies the continuing pattern of human rights violations is that members of the armed forces are rarely brought to justice for the crimes they commit and therefore act with impunity . |
| 3 | This is partly because surgery and drugs have not succeeded in banishing the ‘ diseases of civilisation ’ ( such as cancer , degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular , respiratory and other systems , and allergies ) and there is growing realisation that many of these diseases are intimately related to life styles and attitudes . |
| 4 | These perceptions , far from being simple or accidental , are intimately related to issues of authority and control and the need to concentrate power in the hands of certain groups of people . |
| 5 | During this process of marsh formation , the original shallow depressions , which were areas of non-deposition in the early stages , are slowly converted to creeks . |
| 6 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 7 | Garden centre managers need to know that wildflower seeds have to be grown from native stock ; that highly ornate ‘ mock-Tudor ’ nest-boxes put nestlings ' lives at risk by attracting predators ; that the natural balance of a pond is not best served by chemical algicides ; that salted peanuts are a killer for birds ; that eco-friendly insecticides are a contradiction in terms ; and that wildflowers and buddleias are little help to wildlife if they 're grown in peat-based compost . |
| 8 | I am slowly getting to grips with the laptop , but sadly , on 13th , lost not only the biggest filling in my teeth but also twenty pages of type this size on paper this size . |
| 9 | Those speakers whose ties are weakest are those who approximate least closely to vernacular norms , and are most exposed to pressures for change originating from outside the network . |
| 10 | These algorithms are most suited to tasks with small branching ratios and reversible operators , and with simple states so that the algorithm can remember several states at a time . |
| 11 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 12 | When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply . |
| 13 | General practitioners have always had to manage and plan their businesses and are constantly adapting to changes in medical care . |
| 14 | Recent historical research has qualified and in many cases disputed the view that increases in crime are necessarily related to urbanization , economic growth or ‘ progress ’ . |
| 15 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 16 | The bullet avoids in this , well very briefly , erm about for half a dozen of them , first of all erm , I 'd like members to be aware of the increasing interest being taken by the Department of Transport in the Ipswich transportation strategy and the Ipswich traffic study before that , the predictions we have from our consultants for the year two thousand and six and particularly their interest in their own trunk road system around Ipswich and the capacity of the Orwell Bridge , so that Department of Transport in Bedford are suddenly come to life to see what 's happening and have requested access to the information we have required from previous investment and consultancy work and the panel of members , the joint panel of members Ipswich , Suffolk recently gave approval to expose for being their findings of our work to the Department of Transport , which I think is a very good move and , and only be of some valuable to us ultimately . |
| 17 | The principles described above still apply in that skills are especially suited to analysis , and can be assessed more easily than the other domains by objective tests . |
| 18 | Two bZIP proteins ( ATF-1 and CREM ) which are highly related to CREB are known to form heterodimers with CREB ( 28 , 29 , 30 ) . |
| 19 | Patients are randomly assigned to treatments even if the doctor suspects that one form of treatment might be better . |
| 20 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 21 | For longer-distance migration the destinations are likely to be places that are better known to tourists or are considered to be scenically more attractive . |
| 22 | The Government generally take the view that matters of pay and hours are better left to negotiation between employers and employees , or by their representatives , and that they should certainly not be dealt with in legislation or in codes of practice provided for in statute . |
| 23 | In the New World , bird species are less restricted to fig species , even if fruit is available continuously , as was found for individuals of two Ficus species in Panama , which , between them , produced fruit all year round . |
| 24 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 25 | In the cutical-chitin chains are apparently joined to proteins by covalent linkages involving aspartic acid and histidine ( Rudall , 1963 ) . |
| 26 | Similarly there are individuals that go through the court system and are punished , that are perhaps sent to prison , and come out of prison saying it 's not going to make any difference , I now know how to break into every type of car , every type of building . |
| 27 | That would give him a chance to reduce tax on lower incomes , which are so discouraging to people caught in the poverty trap . |
| 28 | If the Government are so committed to training , how does the hon. Gentleman explain the letter from the Merseyside TEC to Hexagon Community Ltd. in my constituency , telling it that output-related funding is to be cut by 25 per cent . |
| 29 | While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are . |
| 30 | Another point to be taken into consideration is that grants are only made to applicants whose homes are below a certain rateable value , which varies in different areas of the country , and that , when the work is completed , the home must be regarded as a suitable dwelling for occupation for at least another thirty years . |