Example sentences of "and [noun] is [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its current scarcity and decreased egg laying in Wales and Galloway is thought to be the result of lack of appropriate food . |
| 2 | In contrast , in Britain only about 11% of the population has private insurance and coverage is restricted to a limited range of medical services . |
| 3 | Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page . |
| 4 | Bangers and mash is said to be the thing many newly converted vegetarians miss , but now they need pine no longer . |
| 5 | In public libraries , sufficient expenditure of staff time and money is given to the activity of stock revision ( see p.66 ) . |
| 6 | At one extreme , frequently referred to as ‘ bottom-up ’ planning , most of the work of formulating strategies and plans is left to the business units themselves . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the hordes beating a path to the pub or the off-licence are simply ignored and sympathy is given to those who take copious amounts of prescription drugs for their " nerves " or for " insomnia " . |
| 8 | This time it comes from God 's own lips , the crime of Hophni and Phinehas is declared to be blasphemy , Eli is condemned for not restraining them , and the speech ends with a divine oath making it irrevocably clear that there is nothing these three priests can do to ward off the coming disaster . |
| 9 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries . |
| 10 | This work and previous studies have shown that the expression of the N-Oct 3 ( brain-2 ) transcript and protein is confined to cells of the nervous system in which it is the predominant Oct-protein [ 14 ] [ 11 , 15 ] [ 13 ] . |
| 11 | But here there is no minimum price specified and stock is sold to the highest bidders and sold at the price that each has bid . |
| 12 | Thus , a cell resulting from the fusion of cells R and M is referred to as cell R + M. The advantage of this relatively simple system of nomenclature is evident in the so-called discal cell , a term used in at least four separate orders of insects with reference to a different cell in each case . |
| 13 | Thus the remodelling of teachers and schools is linked to wider social and political changes . |
| 14 | The entry fee is only £6 per team and entry is restricted to 32 teams who will then be split into eight groups of four in the round robin stages . |
| 15 | Obviously the equivalence in 13 is the least interesting : the logical relationship between smooth and green is restricted to the very specific and ad hoc conditions spelt out within the sentence itself . |
| 16 | Marriage in Judaism is of such a high status that when a Jewish couple are married , it is considered that the home is like a small version of the Temple and spirituality is brought to everyday life by keeping the biblical laws . |
| 17 | And migration is restricted to the very young , we do have high levels of migration by those in retirement age groups . |
| 18 | Key assets have been identified within this portfolio that are material to the enlarged company and management is dedicated to ensuring that their value is maximised . |
| 19 | — and reference is made to the guidance , at p. 66 , that I have just read . |
| 20 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 21 | In the Soviet Union , central state control of the curriculum and syllabuses is said to be ‘ virtually total ’ . |
| 22 | Core to the strategy is the ability to use multiple operating systems and IBM is believed to be developing a new version of AIX/ESA that will run on both the RS/6000 workstations and highly-parallel servers . |
| 23 | This combination of system of kin terms and marriage is referred to in Engels 's book as the system of ‘ consanguinity ’ . |
| 24 | So far few commercial companies have taken an active interest in pheromones ; in the UK most of the identification and synthesis is confined to government and university laboratories , notably the ODA Tropical Products Institute , the Agriculture Research Council , and the Wolfson Unit of Chemical Entomology at Southampton University . |
| 25 | The regime of the vine and olive is restricted to a zone varying in width from a few hundred metres under Velebit to 30 km ( 18 miles ) near Zadar . |
| 26 | In the case of a contested offer , suspension is impracticable and disclosure is permitted to a restricted number of sub-underwriters immediately before the announcement provided they are warned of the confidential nature of the information . |
| 27 | In the case of a contested offer , suspension is impracticable and disclosure is permitted to a restricted number of sub-underwriters immediately before the announcement , provided they are warned of the confidential nature of the information . |
| 28 | If such were the case the difference between east and south is related to geology and not to any differences in the societies or their subsistence . |
| 29 | If a child has stepped into an absent parent 's shoes another dimension of loss and anxiety is added to the transition . |
| 30 | The variables x and y relate to poloidal potentials and a toroidal magnetic field component , and z is related to the moment of angular momentum . |