Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
| 2 | Social control performs the function of defining those acts that are deemed to be harmful to the society . |
| 3 | There is no uniform or objective way of reporting events in all their detail , exactly as they happen in the real world ; the structure of each language highlights , and to a large extent preselects , certain areas which are deemed to be fundamental to the reporting of any experience . |
| 4 | The analysis has indicated that the sands are variably shaly and some anomalous log responses are considered to be due to the presence of secondary minerals , either as cement or detrital elements . |
| 5 | The thrombi are considered to be secondary to local injury , stasis or cor-pulmonale . |
| 6 | China and Taiwan are reported to be close to agreement on joint development of a centre for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste . |
| 7 | However , there are certain qualities which are seen to be peculiar to physics and these are crucial to our understanding of the construction of physics as a discipline . |
| 8 | Carpentier , in particular , explores Latin America 's relation to the Western world , notably in Explosion in a Cathedral , which portrays Caribbean society against the background of the French Revolution , and , in all of his works , implanted European systems are seen to be inappropriate to the American environment . |
| 9 | The differences in organisation are said to be due to innate ability , and the kind of experience received . |
| 10 | The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million . |
| 11 | They are said to be similar to material distributed previously by Mr Round . |
| 12 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 13 | Xorandor examines the narrative aspect of the novel by exploring the theoretical problems of story-telling from the point of view of children whose minds have been formed by their exposure to computers ; here techniques specific to narrative are shown to be central to even the most logical of sciences . |
| 14 | This education may go well beyond simply fostering understanding of the change itself ; it may include needs assessment and subsequent training in the skills and knowledge that are shown to be essential to functioning successfully in the changed environment . |
| 15 | Such social changes are shown to be prior to , and necessary precursors of , any technological changes , such as industrialization ( Marx 1974 : 318–47 ) . |
| 16 | The bags of fertiliser are thought to be similar to those found at Fallswater Street in west Belfast last week . |
| 17 | Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease . |
| 18 | At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] . |
| 19 | The ‘ tails ’ of these Phromnia rosea nymphs are thought to be unpalatable to predators . |
| 20 | We are invited to be open to the choices each of them represents . |
| 21 | The findings also reportedly indicate that even Europeans , who are judged to be two to three times more interested in Unix than Americans , reject the notion of Unix on the desktop , reckoning MS-DOS and Windows are sufficient , allowing for a move to NT where necessary down the road . |
| 22 | Sandra , a full-time barrister and a mother of three , says some judges are known to be partial to women in wigs and gowns . |
| 23 | The Italians , and indeed all foreigners , are known to be cruel to animals , thought Daisy , looking down to see if she could catch some peasant beating a horse or kicking a dog . |
| 24 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 25 | The magazine Private Eye was more scathing , having already denounced the Thatcher and Bush governments for agreeing ‘ that they will not pursue any further the terrorists who bombed the plane over Lockerbie since they are known to be close to the Syrian government ’ ( 28 September 1991 ) . |
| 26 | My gardening activities are , perhaps , slightly unorthodox , in that I make a point of growing plants whose flowers are known to be attractive to insects , plant flowers and vegetables together , tidy and prune only as much as is absolutely necessary , encourage plants , even ‘ weeds ’ , that give continuous ground cover , and rigorously exclude poisonous chemicals . |
| 27 | On these features are imposed several other psychological symptoms , many of which are known to be common to semistarvation , irrespective of its cause . |
| 28 | Institutional investors who include Schroders , Prudential and Phillips & Drew Fund Management are believed to be opposed to a rights issue . |
| 29 | Both are shortened in CD4 ( which does not dimerize ) relative to the classic V domain , but in sCD2 the CC' loop is shortened and the FG loop is greatly lengthened. β- Bulges in the C' and G strands , which introduce a distinctive twist to these strands , are believed to be crucial to V domain dimerization . |
| 30 | The ideal female nude is thus seen as a triumph of form and expression ; a realisation of qualities which are believed to be intrinsic to the female body . |