Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Programme variables where referred to at all are stated in gross terms . |
| 2 | Fitch reckons that not all bond insurers deserve the top rating ; those that do , it believes , suffer because investors do not trust the triple-As assigned to the insured debt by Moody 's and S&P . |
| 3 | In solid floors , pipes can be laid in an underfloor duct ( not embedded in concrete ) ; note that all pipes and joints should be accessible and , where exposed to cold temperatures , well insulated . |
| 4 | Apart from whether or not these exercises are effective ( they are certainly found to be enjoyable and relaxing by many pupils ) , they have given the teacher a secure base from which to work , for the teacher can be very much in charge , dictating the choice of exercise , controlling the length of time for each , selecting the background music where felt to be appropriate or even dictating the moment-to-moment activity within the experience . |
| 5 | And they worry that they will be asked to make a contribution if the WIPers use up the DM600 million now allocated to the programme . |
| 6 | The great anti-Establishment provocateur of the Sixties now reduced to a gibbering wreck ? |
| 7 | Our results would support this viewpoint as men where found to be more lateralised than women and they have poorer language ability , but superior visual ability . |
| 8 | Where left to their own devices as to choice of subject , and bearing in mind the possibility of their being illiterate , they took subjects that were pagan in origin such as The Green Man which is a growth and fertility symbol . |
| 9 | The next step was to turn the feasibility study into a detailed business plan which would be presented in a share prospectus aimed at attracting the target £6.5 million now estimated to be needed to launch a paper selling between 800,000 and 1.1 million copies . |
| 10 | The national worry quota was already more than filled to overflowing by football hooligans and all those disturbing goings-on in the soap operas . |
| 11 | After the introduction of Nicholas ( 3190 – 220 ) we turn back to the carpenter , of whom , too , we are instantly given details making him a perfect fabliau character : he is married , newly and ill-matchedly so , and thus perhaps green and inexperienced as well as old and jealous : The fabliau formulae themselves produce an unjust stereotyping in this case , as the carpenter 's jealousy , although referred to again by Alison ( 3294 ) , is nowhere evident in his words or actions in the tale . |
| 12 | Although intended to further curtail local government expenditure — by requiring authorities to meet any unforeseen expenditure from existing budgets — the effect may well have been to persuade local authorities to set high initial rates ( to provide adequate balances to meet unexpected contingencies or loss of income ) . |
| 13 | Walker 's appointment as reader ( upgraded to professor in 1860 ) was significant , for he was the first to hold the post in its own right , rather than annexed to a professorship in another subject . |
| 14 | At an extreme , such detailed localised studies can appear to demonstrate that during the early modern period no one outside a state-sanctioned minority of policy makers had , let alone acted on , an idea which had alternate social and political implications , rather than responded to , say , the price of corn in a specific market . |
| 15 | One consequence is that less opportunity exists in 6 Form colleges for staff who are less than committed to pastoral care , to be carried . |
| 16 | She discovers Mellors ' domain where initially , although attracted to each other , their meeting are uneasy affairs . |
| 17 | Although committed to the Independent Orange Order 's rally in Ballycastle , he announced that he would begin the Twelfth by visiting Portadown to add his support to the planned march . |
| 18 | She had n't envied those girls until now ; she stole a look at Roman and admitted to herself that she was more than attracted to him . |
| 19 | In Belgium the outstanding example is Tournai Cathedral which , although added to and altered later , is certainly one of the finest Romanesque buildings in Europe . |
| 20 | If closely neighbouring points on an attractor give trajectories that , although confined to the attractor , rapidly separate , then motion on the attractor shows a sensitivity to initial conditions . |
| 21 | Although confined to a wheelchair for most of her life , Violet was active in church life and helped out with a local Brownie pack . |
| 22 | These included higher-than-average proportions of women , pensioners , people in lower socio-economic groups , people not at the moment using credit ( although prepared to ) and — as might be expected — people admitting to a poor understanding of interest rates . |
| 23 | Robin Horton , in a widely cited article on African systems of thought ( 1967 ) , likewise attempted to break down the elements of scientific thinking in order to demonstrate that so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples such as the Azande did in fact make use of the same elements of thought , although applied to different content . |
| 24 | Although absorbed to the point of stuffing his pipe with sandwiches when obsessed with puzzle-solving , it would be wrong to see Knox 's code-breaking as a detached intellectual exercise . |
| 25 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 26 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 27 | ( But not all ; some , like the Canaries , although related to the ridge , lie well to one side of it . ) |
| 28 | Although related to IVIS , the approach is quite different . |
| 29 | Costs have been reduced by automation and heavy job cuts , and profits last year more than tripled to £36m . |
| 30 | And in that time the number of share-owners has more than tripled to more than nine million . |