Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairies are reported to be thick on the ground living in grassy mounds all over the island . |
| 2 | Strong interventionist states with powerful centralized bureaucracies and institutions of state coercion , for example , may be contrasted with those of countries where the interests of civil society are stronger and state institutions are moulded to its purpose . |
| 3 | Also , where Newco is acquiring a business , it seems it is no longer strictly necessary to ensure that the shares the managers subscribe in Newco confer control after the institutions have invested , so long as they confer control before then , assuming in this scenario that the managers invest well before the institutions and before the institutions are committed to investing . |
| 4 | The use of these tests can seem threatening to the status of the interviewee , in the sense that hidden secrets are going to be discovered . |
| 5 | We have therefore sought to influence its detail in order to ensure the highest standards of protection are afforded to the surrounding natural and visual environments . |
| 6 | Additionally , drugs widely used for the treatment of ulcerative colitis such as sulfasalazine and 5-ASA are known to be potent anti-reactive oxygen species agents . |
| 7 | Plans for the New Forest are expected to be announced in full as part of the government 's response to the report . |
| 8 | The deposit and Fed balance of $10m are transferred to Bank X. |
| 9 | Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards . |
| 10 | This arrangement gives tremendous rhythmical force and point to full chords of this kind on the wind and brass , especially when chords of three notes are given to each string group ( except of course , the double basses ) . |
| 11 | These notes are addressed to " G-1(B) " at AFHQ from " G-5 " , with copies to " G-Z , British Resident Minister , US Political Adviser " . |
| 12 | Fur seals and sea lions are restricted to the Bering Strait area and seldom enter icy waters . |
| 13 | Within each layer , the components of the canopy are considered to be randomly distributed and homogeneously mixed . ’ |
| 14 | It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards . |
| 15 | More often than not , the A&R personnel are working to a brief . |
| 16 | A mother and daughter in the Forest of Dean are writing to more than fifty prisoners in America … including convicted killers on death row . |
| 17 | How interesting these Oscars are proving to be . |
| 18 | Traditional music and hymnody are seen to be for an older audience . |
| 19 | The initiating processes in all these interactions are referred to as biological interface conversion processes and can be easily studied in the eye because contact lenses can be removed and analysed after only a few minutes ' wear . |
| 20 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 21 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and are stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 22 | Inspection and monitoring are expected to be done by mobile robots capable of pattern recognition . |
| 23 | Discussions are understood to be under way with several companies which have expressed an interest in setting up alongside the plant to supply components to Motorola , which operates on a just-in-time principle of bringing in materials just as they are required for the production process . |
| 24 | In the run-up to next month 's Twickenham showdown , discussions are understood to be taking place on the staging of a floodlit fixture to officially hansel the completed Murrayfield super-stadium in the autumn of 1994 . |
| 25 | Some fear that the statement could catch ‘ innocent ’ schemes as well as any that clearly defeat the purpose of the legislation , and discussions are reported to be taking place between the Revenue and the profession as to how exactly the statement will be implemented . |
| 26 | Whales enmeshed in a drift-net are condemned to a slow death from starvation or suffocation . |
| 27 | The remainder are bound to be increasingly affected by the absence from the shelves of a considerable number of titles . |
| 28 | It is to be recommended that full reasons are given to the third party solicitor . |
| 29 | What is much more interesting , I have already suggested , is the idea that there could be patterns of behaviour which human beings are entirely capable of wanting and indeed , on an individual or limited scale , of achieving , but which for biological reasons are bound to be psychologically costly , or confined to a small group of otherwise unusual individuals , or otherwise bound to fail as general social institutions . |
| 30 | Sometimes this uncertainty is due to ignorance of the contents of the records and the way in which objects are referred to , particularly in large and varied collections . |