Example sentences of "is [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then all the data from the TREE command , which normally goes straight to the screen , is redirected to a file called PENGUIN . |
| 2 | This is the work that will suffer if food aid is redirected to the drought victims — sowing the seeds for a new drought . |
| 3 | One such sceptic , a certain Montgomery , is likened to a prickly housemaid . |
| 4 | In the New Testament , God is likened to a father , a shepherd and the owner of a vineyard ( among other images , including some found in the Old Testament ) . |
| 5 | The setpoint mechanism is likened to a thermostat . |
| 6 | Racism is likened to a poison which children take in , if not from their mother 's breast , then at least from its mechanical substitutes . |
| 7 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 8 | For example , he is likened to a thief , but he actually wants to become a king , and speaks as if he were a Prince . |
| 9 | It is likened to a heaven full of stars , yet better than such because his wounds are efficacious by day as well as by night , and not only can not be obscured by clouds but positively drive away clouds of sin ; a net full of holes in which the meditator prays to be drawn to the bank of death ; a dovecote full of holes of refuge and a honeycomb full of cells of sweet honey ; a book written in red ink — matter for the meditator 's attention at " matyns , pryme , houris , euesong & complin " ; a meadow full of healing and delightful flowers and herbs ( 96 – 7 ) . |
| 10 | If God is likened to a king , as in Islam especially , it indicates that God is in control , that we can trust God , and so forth . |
| 11 | Compensation is calculated to a complex formula which includes a basic award related to gross earnings and length of service and a compensatory award which seeks to meet the employee 's actual and future losses arising as a consequence of the dismissal . |
| 12 | Influenced by the work of G.K. Gilbert , Hack argued that the concept of dynamic equilibrium provides a more reasonable basis for the interpretation of topographic forms in an erosionally graded landscape , that every slope and stream channel in an erosional system is adjusted to every other , and when the topography is in equilibrium and erosional energy remains the same , all elements of the topography are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 13 | As each image is essentially composed through the lens , it is adjusted to the ‘ final size ’ by varying the focal lengths in the shooting stage . |
| 14 | More generally , the effectiveness of the production system depends on the way the social system is adjusted to the technical requirements ( Emery and Trist , 1960 ) . |
| 15 | In this case , the terminal is set wide for interactive viewing , and the page size is adjusted to the screen depth automatically . |
| 16 | The slowness of engineering to join the scheme , for example , is explained to a considerable extent by fears of the attitudes of the professional societies ( it is hoped that , in time , field combinations such as computer studies and microelectronic systems will succeed in breaching this important wall ) . |
| 17 | It also means ensuring that any risk inherent in investment advice is explained to the client and clearly understood by him . |
| 18 | When property is assigned to a trustee for dividing among the creditors as part of the composition , this is called a deed of arrangement . |
| 19 | The software can automatically distinguish between various score types — everything from solo or piano music to conductors ' orchestral sheets with up to 16 staves per line — each part is assigned to a separate MIDI channel . |
| 20 | When a problem is assigned to a Problem Solver , a message will be left in his ‘ reader file ’ . |
| 21 | Well before arrival , each competitor is assigned to a host family , and to be a host family is a tremendous prestige . |
| 22 | Each student entering the University is assigned to a Director of Studies who is a member of the teaching staff with special responsibility for providing information and guidance on choice of courses , and to help with academic or other problems as they arise . |
| 23 | Whenever a module is created in LIFESPAN it is assigned to a module manager , who remains responsible for it as long as it exists ( or until another user is assigned to the module ) . |
| 24 | The training of probationers encourages this transmission , because after formal training in the depot each recruit is assigned to an experienced senior constable in the station . |
| 25 | For the process to proceed smoothly it is necessary to ensure that responsibility for overall policy decisions is assigned to an appropriate individual or group ( for instance the managing director or the board of directors ) . |
| 26 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 27 | Within a healthy tradition of Goddess-worship , there is assigned to the Goddess an ambivalence , a sense that left to herself she will be destructive rather than nurturing . |
| 28 | Once a team of ministers is assigned to the Northern Ireland Office over the weekend , an early meeting of the Anglo-Irish Conference will take place . |
| 29 | In John Pope-Hennessey 's 1965 catalogue of the Kress Collection it is assigned to the second quarter of the sixteenth century |
| 30 | The staff is assigned to the project on a full-time or part-time basis . |