Example sentences of "to [noun] [noun pl] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of contrast between different approaches to user needs is starker when other versions are considered . |
| 2 | At present local authority procedures for regulation and control are rudimentary , and the criteria to be applied to funding decisions are less than clear . |
| 3 | One of the important roles attributed to futures markets is that of ‘ price discovery ’ , that is , the futures market reflects new information before the spot market . |
| 4 | The mechanism by which foreign antigens are presented to T lymphocytes is central to the whole of immunology . |
| 5 | The third aim of the project concerns accuracy analysis : how sensitive to data revisions are standard tests of forecasting accuracy ? |
| 6 | The UK Government Committee of Enquiry chaired by Lord Chorley ( DoE 1987 ) on the Handling of Geographic Information suggested in recommendation 59 that GIS technology projects be promoted since the report noted that the existing interfaces to GIS systems were poor . |
| 7 | The make-up , addressing and packaging of items addressed to HM Forces is important . |
| 8 | Less than one percent of entries added to dictionary updates are original — most are compounds created by stringing together existing words ( global warming ; crack house ; butterfly effect ; daisy age rapper ) . |
| 9 | The unavailability of legal aid for libel has been defended on the basis that it would bring " over the fence " disputes to court ( the poor being assumed to quarrel in crowded tenements rather more often than the rich accuse one another of cheating at cards ) but the inequity is so glaring that the argument for extending legal aid to defamation actions is difficult to resist . |
| 10 | The TCCB also points out that its £300,000 guarantee to Test nations is double the figure paid by Australia and New Zealand early this year . |
| 11 | Accordingly , subject to work permits being forthcoming , I have accepted a post as Rector , and Elizabeth as a Diocesan Counsellor with special responsibility for helping with the problems of AIDS . |
| 12 | Things are bad enough now but if there is no sign of progress towards a settlement , the people who are still giving friendly waves to UN troops are likely to start throwing stones as they do in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | The objective of segmentation is to group individuals so that their collective response to marketing inputs is similar . |
| 14 | Postponing payment and so becoming indebted to business partners was common , so it is possible to talk of debt being a form of credit . |
| 15 | From the Board 's viewpoint the negative factors relating to evening courses were concerned mainly with the instructors , who might well be tired after a day 's work and might also be anxious about a long journey home afterwards . |
| 16 | Greater access for walkers to forest areas is beneficial not detrimental claimed the Forestry Commission ( FC ) at the launch of a booklet intended to persuade owners and managers to open up their woodland areas to the public . |
| 17 | Mr McCloy said he was disappointed with the committee 's suggestion that the decision to cut support to hill farmers was tenable in purely economic terms . |
| 18 | One of the modules likely to be of most interest to teacher researchers is Professional Development in Action . |
| 19 | To Euclid axioms were unshakeable truths ( e.g. every two distinct points uniquely determine a line ) . |
| 20 | We are firmly convinced that regional loyalty to Palatine Ales is such that if our beers were replaced by Anglo-Welsh products there would be a significant overall reduction in sales . |
| 21 | All of the rest of the day to day gubbins is front mounted — the control panel and a large font cartridge slot complete the picture here , while the power on/off switch is neatly recessed towards the rear on the left hand side . |
| 22 | Whether such changes would have been acceptable to Contact users is open to speculation since social interaction and individual autonomy were the group 's main attractions . |
| 23 | These are hard times for beer sellers which may lead to beer cellars being fuller than otherwise they would be . |
| 24 | The interest paid to debenture holders is deductible when calculating taxable profits , unlike dividend payments . |
| 25 | A brief guide to Student Loans is available from the Scottish Office Education Department ( address above ) . |
| 26 | Pictures of cats made out of synthetic material and stuck on to plastic plates are available in virtually every store . |
| 27 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 28 | But this doctrine of matching policy instruments to policy variables is unlikely to be effective in all cases : for example , a desire for strategic reasons to protect a domestic defence industry from foreign takeovers , or a desire to maintain a diversity of ownership in the newspaper industry . |
| 29 | Thus his freedom to father children was subject to the law , even though he could not be allowed to know that he was under restriction . |
| 30 | The basic question with regard to birth parents is first , whether they can or should be encouraged to release the child emotionally on the belief that this is the only way for the child to become attached to his new family . |