Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] is [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also vital that any incident or accident involving the emergency services ( police , fire or ambulance ) is notified to Peter Bateman at Felcourt as soon as possible so that he is briefed to dal with consequent media enquiries . |
| 2 | Finally , and significantly , voting rights exercisable by discretionary portfolio managers are attributed to them ( although member states are allowed to postpone the notification requirement in this last case so that it is tied to general meetings ) . |
| 3 | The raw reference material is reorganised so that it is geared to the needs of advice workers and oriented to the problems that clients bring to advice agencies . |
| 4 | Considerable effort by senior management needs to be devoted to refining information so that it is related to local units , uses easily understood concepts and yardsticks , has illustrations and examples , is consistent and is a careful balance between mentioning failures and successes . |
| 5 | The design process must be managed so that it is completed to quality within cost and time targets and with all necessary decisions having been taken and expressed fully and clearly in specifications and drawings . |
| 6 | The alternative to this , he suggests , is , " to subdivide and codify the design process incorporating the knowledge of the existing designers so that it is reduced to a sequence of simple choices " . |
| 7 | So I am pleading that the panel really take a great deal of effort in this leaflet so that it is going to be easily understood by even the people who are less well educated than some of us . |
| 8 | So if there is going to be trouble it will come from the rear . |
| 9 | You may need to help the patient at work , especially if he is returning to his own business . |
| 10 | As a double-check you should read through a document after it has been printed , especially if it is going to be sent to an important customer . |
| 11 | Like the donkey it is despised by its enemies and mistreated by its friends , but only because it is bound to be treated unfairly when it is seen unrealistically . |
| 12 | So long as it is confined to strict military targets — roads , bridges , supply depots , gun emplacements — bombing need not alienate either public opinion in the West or the ordinary Serbs who must help change the minds of their stubborn , self-styled leaders . |
| 13 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 14 | She has redpointed Ceuse 's Vagabone , which is an excellent effort , especially as it is considered to be more difficult for those of limited height . |
| 15 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 16 | Only when it is exposed to chemicals that harden the tissue and inhibit decay , a method known as fixation , is the brain easily studied and only then will it reveal the complexities of its organization . |
| 17 | How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters . |
| 18 | To attack the predator while it is in a stable position on the ground is far riskier than to do so when it is clinging to high branches . |
| 19 | Mrs. McKenzie , whose mother was also a member of Grayshott Good Companions , will be very sorry to leave the Thursday afternoon friends she has known for so long — but she will not be sitting at home alone as she is going to Grayshott 's weekly day centre . |
| 20 | A 92½° ( or 91½7degree ; ) bend ensures that a horizontal pipe falls away where it is connected to a vertical section of pipe |
| 21 | I can see already that she is going to be good . |
| 22 | With his loyal advisers Francis Cripps and Frances Morrell by his side , he beavers away with unremitting zeal even when his beloved industrial policy is snatched away and he is banished to the Department of Energy . |
| 23 | Unused cement from open bags will last longer if it is transferred to well-sealed plastic bags . |
| 24 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 25 | The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers . |
| 26 | A meal provided through the Meals on Wheels Service will provide one third of the daily intake required for good health , and to ensure that you get most benefit from your meal , it should be eaten as soon as it is delivered to you . |
| 27 | The general principle contemplates a model of a patient of an age recognized as endowing him with the competence to exercise a valid choice , and who is lucid in the sense not only that he regards himself as being in control of his mental faculties , but also that he is recognized to be so by others . |
| 28 | The wording of subsection ( 1 ) shows quite clearly that it is addressed to the legal purpose of legal effect of consent to treatment , namely , to prevent such treatment constituting in law a trespass to the person , and that it does so by making the consent of a 16- or 17-year-old as effective as if he were ‘ of full age . ’ |
| 29 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 30 | Withdrawal now tends to be discouraged , partly because it is thought to be another form of segregation within the ordinary school , and therefore in danger of isolating and stigmatising children , and partly because it deprives children of access to lessons and activities available to other children . |