Example sentences of "[noun pl] to be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If this is the case , then it suggests that an important aspect of skilled reading is to avoid attending too closely to what is being fixated at any one moment , and to allow our eyes to be attracted to nearby interesting meanings .
2 Foster City , California-based Blyth Holdings Inc says that the Norwegian Police Force has chosen to standardise on the company 's Omnis Seven Plus Windows-based software on thousands of personal computers to be linked to unidentified Unix servers running the Ingres relational database management system .
3 Are frowning and haughty tyrants to be preferred to generous Lords ?
4 It is I would suggest similarly evident that P P G seven expects most new development in rural areas to be directed to rural villages and small country towns and that it should be sensitively related to existing settlement patterns under the historic wildlife and landscape resources of the area .
5 In 1992 , as in previous years , a wide range of charities in the UK received support and employees participate in the Give As You Earn Scheme , which enables monthly tax free donations to be made to registered charities .
6 It gives little guidance as to the individual weightings to be attached to explanatory variables for evaluating between them , or the precise ways in which they interact , and lacks predictive power ( Gill , 1969 ) .
7 Atlas 's purpose is to sit between the corporate systems and the EDI network , allowing messages to be generated to various standards and in various formats .
8 The second , and closely related , change is the permission in the Constitution on the Liturgy ( 55 ) for Communion under both kinds to be given to religious and laity in certain circumstances .
9 Such work will help develop a detailed account of object recognition and allow predictions to be made to related fields ( eg the development of recognition processes and their neurological breakdown ) .
10 Note that all final goods and services produced must be included , whether they are to be sold to consumers or to the government , whether they are to be sold abroad as exports , or whether they are capital goods to be sold to other firms .
11 It is supplied to commercial users in a roll and usually by weight in 1 kilo quantities to be cut to desired lengths .
12 This involves determination of the appropriate amount of resources to be distributed to different parts of the organisation .
13 But pressure group Transport 2000 expressed concern about the lack of controls on maximum distance ; it is calling for the lorries to be restricted to designated routes .
14 In France Gian Piero Zarri has developed a system known as RESEDA to allow Artificial Intelligence techniques to be applied to historical source material ( concerning the Hundred Years War ) .
15 This , it was thought , would ‘ enable the build-up of authorities ’ acquisition , management and disposal activities to be matched to available resources , in particular of finance , manpower and expertise' .
16 Much argument centred on the proper meanings to be attached to particular words such as ‘ economic ’ and on the recent history of transport legislation .
17 Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 allows grant payments to be made to suitable applicants , provided that there will be a significant environmental benefit , the anticipated expenditure is of a capital not revenue nature , British Rail will carry the desired freight , the rail freight facilities will encourage a transfer from road to rail and that , relatively speaking , the wanted rail freight facilities would not be viable without a Section 8 payment .
18 The Countryside Commission has called for planning guidelines on wind farms to be issued to local authorities .
19 Once simple processes are found , investigate whether conjugation will allow the processes to be moved to other pieces 5 .
20 Charles the Bald 's capitularies presuppose the effectiveness of these local " agents of the state " in requiring decisions to be transmitted to lower-level " assemblies in dioceses or counties " and then carried out .
21 Consideration can be given to producing a leaflet or , for virtually no cost , standard letters can be adapted into information sheets to be given to new and potential clients ( see Chapter 2 ) .
22 However , they require the cuts to be made to high standards of accuracy so that the transition is made smoothly .
23 Because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations it would be necessary for all the children to be subjected to psychiatric examination : the Official Solicitor recognises this but has postponed arranging any such examination pending the result of this appeal .
24 The new row follows talks last week at which Mr Clarke said that the ‘ firm ’ drug budgets to be given to regional health authorities and family practitioner committees would not operate , as the BMA feared , as cash limits .
25 Some systems have been developed along such lines that enable non-zero probabilities to be ascribed to individual predictions .
26 The Markov methods represent the bottom-up approach , and they model English text as a Markov process which allows transition probabilities to be assigned to various letter combinations or n-grams .
27 The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’
28 One would ‘ ring-fence ’ or protect the grants to be given to local authorities so they could not be used for other purposes ; the other would give elderly and disabled people in local authority residential homes the same social security rights as those in private or voluntary sector homes .
29 Such a neutralising of the grantor 's intentions was not something that evolved in Charles the Bald 's reign , a degradation of a once-pure system : rather , there was always , from the time when the earliest precarial grants are documented , a tendency for grants to be assimilated to hereditary lands , and then be passed along with those to the beneficiary 's heirs .
30 Within the NHS the Government requirement for ancillary services to be offered to private as well as ‘ in house ’ tenders can be considered one such strategic objective .
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