Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can set up menus which are assigned to specific users and passwords . |
| 2 | Favours are given to female guests only , crackers could be supplied for your whole wedding party , your females guests Oh gosh it 's gusts . |
| 3 | All profits are given to good causes . |
| 4 | Also , personal discounts are given to certain classes of adults , e.g. handicapped people , those in full time education . |
| 5 | Even within national systems , the structure of the television schedules , and the different interpretations which are given to different injunctions — with different degrees of force — to inform , entertain and educate , make it difficult to think of television as a single formal system . |
| 6 | By using the resources of the local retailers to identify their potential customers over 85,000 colour pamphlets have been posted to individual homes . |
| 7 | Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ . |
| 8 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 9 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 10 | All Kate 's previous sexual experience had been limited to clumsy caresses which she 'd had no difficulty in resisting . |
| 11 | Until then , because of the Ecclesiastical Exemption , which exempts churches in use from listed building controls , grants had been limited to secular buildings on the principle ‘ no control : no money ’ . |
| 12 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 13 | Of course , these pathological tendencies are still with us today and are widely recognized in individual mental illness ; but what is not generally appreciated is their extent in cultural forms , not all of which are limited to ancient societies . |
| 14 | Like the dietary laws , which mean that although we should enjoy our food we are limited to certain foods , we are encouraged to enjoy sex , but only in the context of a legal marriage and with certain constraints . |
| 15 | Under fairly weak conditions , with only one decision variable , such a ‘ local ’ equilibrium can be shown to exist ( Kramer and Klevorick , 1974 ) , but whether it provides a persuasive resolution to the ‘ majority voting paradox ’ depends on the extent to which choices are limited to small perturbations of the existing situation . |
| 16 | If the numbers in the sea are limited to good friends and well-known faces from the ( packed ) Driftwood pub in St Agnes , and outside visitors are few , then the Badlands surfers are not complaining . |
| 17 | Sports like jet-skiing and water-skiing are limited to specified areas . |
| 18 | In view of the uncertainties in our knowledge of stellar processes which generate gravitational waves , calculations here are limited to order-of-magnitude estimates of the power output to be expected in a favourable case . |
| 19 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 20 | In particular the Bill was presented as being unopposed , but notice had not been given to affected landowners as required by Standing Orders . |
| 21 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 22 | In syllabuses produced to date , only perfunctory attention has been given to cross-curricular themes . |
| 23 | More recently , it has been shown that the aim of preservation has been somewhat relaxed , and some attention has been given to non-agricultural uses of green belts , particularly for recreation ( Hebbert and Gault 1978 ) . |
| 24 | It helps the organisation to anticipate and minimise difficulties , especially in potentially complex situations , by ensuring that careful consideration has been given to alternative courses of action . |
| 25 | Help has been given to outside organizations such as professional bodies wishing to publicize associate membership to undergraduates , to foreign consulates with scholarships on offer to nationals , etc . |
| 26 | The head of the judiciary , Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Yazdi , at Friday prayers on March 20 mentioned the unprecedented access that ICRC delegates had recently been given to Iranian prisons , and said that the delegates should be replaced by a more competent team because they had given their " legal work … a political hue " . |
| 27 | Much less attention has been given to smooth-fronted waves of finite duration . |
| 28 | At the same time , however , some of these weaknesses might have been avoided if more careful attention had been given to commercial needs by those originally responsible for framing the administrative structures of nationalised industries [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
| 29 | I am also disappointed at the amount that has been given to Scottish Homes for housing . |
| 30 | However , deciding whether a particular consideration is relevant , whether a particular object is within the allowable range , whether an adequate hearing has been given to interested parties , and whether the reasons ultimately provided are sufficient , are all factors which can encroach indirectly on the merits . |