Example sentences of "[verb] to be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consideration may need to be given to switching partners or departments to achieve this ; ( 3 ) inevitably , where the activities of a firm are spread over a wide area , problems arise in connection with the basic decision making processwhen , for example , partners ' meetings become more difficult to arrange . |
| 2 | The child and parents may need to be exposed to intensive care and contact with each other ( Iwaniec and Herbert 1982 ) . |
| 3 | If some oversight were to be established there , then much greater attention would need to be paid to foreign experience . |
| 4 | The E.coli rrnB and rrnD P 1 promoters for rRNAs appear to be adapted to high productivity by having a rapid promoter clearance , something that is probably related to the characteristic instability of their open complexes ( 10 ) . |
| 5 | The software is expected to be ported to other microprocessor architectures like the Sparc RISC further down the road . |
| 6 | Thought has to be given to future integration at the initial design stage , otherwise subsequent integration will be very difficult and expensive . |
| 7 | At the point at which there is a creative idea , with someone with vision behind it willing to persist , it still has to be sold to other people in the organization in order to get implemented . |
| 8 | Three-quarter-inch cassette formats : U-matic Low-Band — widely used in industry and in institutions ; U-matic High-Band — acceptable for broadcast , better quality than low-band , needs to be transferred to low-band to play back on that standard but will playback on low band equipment as black and white picture of variable quality . |
| 9 | This has obvious implications for services at a local level and provision needs to be related to regional trends and census figures . |
| 10 | However , specific observations always needs to be related to general claims or GENERALISATIONS , without which the specific can just seem trivial and random . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems to me that a new play like Shadowlands needs to be exposed to different audiences before it settles down . |
| 12 | It may be apparent from the head chef 's comments that more time needs to be given to basic skills in the college 's scheme of work or that parts of the housekeeping syllabus need revision . |
| 13 | When schemas need to be changed , considerable attention needs to be paid to internal barriers to change , or the best-laid strategies will fail . |
| 14 | The first of these tensions is about the degree of attention that needs to be paid to natural ( i.e. genetically given ) sex differences and similarities . |
| 15 | In view of the very high risk of active tuberculosis in this population , tuberculosis education needs to be added to existing HIV education and public health campaigns aimed at drug users . |
| 16 | But if disaster is to be averted , time bought needs to be put to good economic use . |
| 17 | There is minimal information about patterns of USO pressure in children with problems believed to be related to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 18 | You can use the program to create a personal history of problems that are felt to be related to certain substances . |
| 19 | New issues and a new vocabulary bubbled to the surface of public debate , and different answers came to be given to enduring questions about who should govern and how . |
| 20 | It soon lost its exclusively maritime connotation and , from denoting simply work as a galley slave , came to be applied to other forms of penal servitude with hard labour . |
| 21 | No Roman Catholic movement of the left had appeared to help Rome in its political struggles at a time when the suffrage was spreading ; in spite of a few ‘ Christian socialists ’ , Roman Catholicism still seemed to be tied to social and political conservatism . |
| 22 | We found some discrepancies between care of the elderly and of younger people under the care programme approach , which seemed to be related to different modes of organizing service delivery . |
| 23 | Strict control of the money supply seemed to be linked to low rates of inflation in Switzerland and West Germany . |
| 24 | Various outcomes have been examined in randomised controlled trials of intrapartum fetal monitoring ; the only complication to show a lower ( and largely consistent ) decrease in the monitored groups was neonatal convulsion , and this protective effect seemed to be confined to prolonged , induced , or augmented labours . |
| 25 | Because AIDS was initially seen to be confined to particular groups , some countries which associated drug-taking and homosexuality with deviant or criminal behaviour took punitive measures . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the decision to sell Saatchi 's ailing business consultancy division has put additional strains on Saatchi management and a number of senior managers have had to be moved to new positions . |
| 27 | Since the building of the huge medieval tithe barns , constant changes in farming methods have meant that most farm buildings have had to be adapted to new uses or else demolished or simply abandoned to the elements . |
| 28 | This last because illness tends to be attributed to supernatural causes so that the art of healing is , from another aspect , part of the more general art of communicating with supernatural powers . |
| 29 | Connected with these studies , though quite different in emphasis , is the rise of consumer protection and associated legislation , which is more concerned with the implications of goods , but tends to be restricted to functional efficiency and safety , rather than wider social relations . |
| 30 | The money in her bank account was going to be put to good use , on this occasion . |