Example sentences of "are [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , again , are pre-set to a small selection , but , noticeably , they include only those colours that normally print well with a three colour ribbon , which , given the price and target audience of the program , is a sensible move . |
| 2 | All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom . |
| 3 | The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm . |
| 4 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 5 | Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document . |
| 6 | In fact , stage dates have already been estimated for the Cretaceous , with the startling conclusion that of the 67 million years attributed to the twelve stages of the system , nearly 20 million are given to a single stage-the Cenomanian . |
| 7 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 8 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 9 | The clinical effects are slight , and in the resting cat are limited to a chronic mild cough ; following exercise or handling , there may be coughing and sneezing with slight dyspnoea and production of mucoid sputum . |
| 10 | any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced . |
| 11 | Children who come to this school are limited to a Fine Arts base , and possibly Graphics . |
| 12 | As my usual walking activities are limited to a little fell walking in the Lakes or North Wales , with friends who usually do the navigating , the TMB was certainly ambitious . |
| 13 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 14 | However , the limitations of these data must be borne in mind , especially the fact that they are limited to a single point in time . |
| 15 | The only difference between this demo and the full commercial version is that you are limited to a single theatre of operations . |
| 16 | If you are limited to a three-lamp set-up , your subjects have to remain within a fairly small area , otherwise the lighting becomes unbalanced and the performers may even stray into unlit areas . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no new thing under the sun ’ and in kung fu the angles and arcs of attack are limited to a 360-degree area . |
| 18 | To avoid excessive changes in the sample cross section , elongations are limited to a few per cent and are followed over approximately three decades of time . |
| 19 | All rotation rates have been corrected for the Earth 's rotation and orbital motion , and are referred to a best fit for rotation rate and its first derivative made over 400 days immediately preceding the glitch . |
| 20 | ‘ We are now dealing with a situation where all of us are exposed to a cannabis-like substance . |
| 21 | While sleeping at night we fast and are exposed to a quiet , dark environment . |
| 22 | But when such people are exposed to a high-fat Western diet , they develop the same type of preferences as Westerners . |
| 23 | They are not free-running — they are stabilized to a 24-hour day . |
| 24 | We could implement the same architecture in a number of ways , and some ranges of computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) are designed to a common architecture but with a radically different physical implementation for each model . |
| 25 | Most of these compositions , however , have a narrow scope ; they discuss issues of immediate concern to members of a particular occupation though sometimes they are addressed to a wider audience . |
| 26 | Official letters to MI6 are addressed to a mythical person called Mr G. H. Merrick . |
| 27 | In this way cohorts of embryos can be gathered which are synchronized to a particular developmental transition . |
| 28 | Humans are synchronized to a 24-hour cycle , however , and so time-cues must exist , albeit often artificial ones . |
| 29 | They are attracted to a warm , soft area of wall and floor large enough for them all to lie in , and they find it more quickly when it is brightly lit . |
| 30 | The other is that even if subsidiaries of large companies are attracted to a particular region , and the company decides to develop innovations in that location , there is always the possibility that the firm ( likely to be a multinational corporation ) will relocate its plant , or switch manufacturing to other plants , and the local/regional authority will be powerless to intervene . |