Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thought has to be given to future integration at the initial design stage , otherwise subsequent integration will be very difficult and expensive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This has obvious implications for services at a local level and provision needs to be related to regional trends and census figures . |
| 5 | However , specific observations always needs to be related to general claims or GENERALISATIONS , without which the specific can just seem trivial and random . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems to me that a new play like Shadowlands needs to be exposed to different audiences before it settles down . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When schemas need to be changed , considerable attention needs to be paid to internal barriers to change , or the best-laid strategies will fail . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But if disaster is to be averted , time bought needs to be put to good economic use . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As the Investors Chronicle of 18 September pointed out , most building societies do not tell their savers when one of their accounts ceases to be marketed to new investors , even if the existing investor could obtain a much better rate of interest by switching to another account with the same society . |
| 15 | The shift in ranking of preferences appears to be related to social class . |
| 16 | As has been discussed above this appears to be related to left ventricular dysfunction . |
| 17 | Obesity appears to be related to cultural practice as it varies according to class . |
| 18 | For instance , since the DNA-PK appears to be restricted to DNA-bound substrates , non-DNA-binding proteins that bear Ser-Gln motifs are unlikely to be recognised by the DNA-PK in vivo . |
| 19 | The cause is unknown but seems to be related to congenital vascular abnormalities . |
| 20 | This seems to be related to certain features of Japanese lifestyle and working practices , such as shared decision-making , group affiliations , corporate identity , group counselling , etc . |
| 21 | This increased incidence of gastric carcinomas seems to be related to local factors . |
| 22 | These paragraphs are warmly supported , but unlike the visual impact criterion which , quite justifiably applies to the whole coastline , the ecological impact section seems to be restricted to designated sites only . |
| 23 | Often this seems to be taken to unnecessary lengths , since there are relatively few instances where seeing the book helps a selection decision , and even fewer where it is significant . |
| 24 | This use seems to be confined to British English . |
| 25 | Even if its efficacy proves to be confined to symptomatic behaviour , and not cognitive improvements , this may well provide knock-on benefits in other treatment areas . |
| 26 | Aristocratic families in Europe defended the purity of their descent ( the basis of their legitimate right to rule ) , and now , by an heroic leap of imagination , racial purity comes to be attached to whole peoples for certain political purposes . |