Example sentences of "[adv] is [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says having two children close together is bound to be hard work . |
| 2 | The ability to give or lend money to relatives obviously is related to one 's own economic resources in some way — although we are unlikely to find that people who have more straightforwardly give more . |
| 3 | There remain finally the imported materials , of which timber alone is alleged to be a real limitation . |
| 4 | Edinburgh council alone is thought to be owed one hundred thousand pounds . |
| 5 | The value of exports is assumed to be determined by factors outside the domestic circular flow and so is assumed to be exogenous in our model . |
| 6 | In favour of a person dealing with a company in good faith , the power of the board of directors to bind the company or to authorize others to do so is deemed to be free from any limitations under the company 's constitution ( i.e. memorandum of association ) . |
| 7 | Normally , Parliament will be dissolved by the monarch as and when advice to do so is conveyed to that effect by the Prime Minister ; and invariably , the issuing by the monarch of a proclamation dissolving Parliament is accompanied by the issuing of another proclamation summoning the next one . |
| 8 | The site supports a large number and wide variety of bird species and so is considered to be a Wetland Site of International Importance . |
| 9 | If the three limbs are not satisfied the property which has been given away is referred to as " property subject to a reservation " ( Finance Act 1986 , s102(2) ) . |
| 10 | Normally is set to a preset level and the voltmeter V is calibrated to give Q directly , from which the loss resistance R of the inductor can be calculated if required . |
| 11 | The number of births for males and females separately is added to the population of age-group 1 ( 0–9 years in the example above ) . |
| 12 | The motion that the Prime Minister has proposed for decision by the House tonight is intended to be so meaningless that any Tory Member can vote for it while interpreting it to suit himself or herself . |
| 13 | If costs are quadratic and investors minimize current and expected future costs , then the cost function has the form : where d i is a discount factor ( which hereafter is assumed to be unity ) . |
| 14 | The current Tsunami run meanwhile is said to be exceeding expectations in speed and yield . |
| 15 | Pork scratching packets were pinned to his notice board and he was and still is referred to as ‘ Porky ’ . |
| 16 | If the transaction is successful , then nothing further is added to the log file . |
| 17 | Their response is laughter — the same as their response to line 23 , which ostensibly is addressed to " Courtney " . |
| 18 | My fealty always is sworn to thee . ’ |
| 19 | A ROYAL Ulster Constabulary officer killed by a single shot yesterday is believed to be the third victim of an IRA sniper using a fearsome long-range rifle . |
| 20 | A depositor owed £100,000 or £50,000 or any other amount over £20,000 can likewise look to the board , but his claim also is limited to the same top figure of £15,000 . |
| 21 | One possibility is that the tendency to use both is restricted to reducing strain induced by unfavourable syntactic constructions ( i.e. verb-with as against and ) . |
| 22 | I mean maybe there 's an issue about how to cope with war , but that probably is related to fundamental aspects of what a person 's all about in their psychological make up . |
| 23 | The technique as described originally is applied to the mouse testis below ( Section 2.1 ) , and modified in our laboratory for use with human testicular material ( Section 2.2 ) . |
| 24 | The hottest programme now is said to be on missiles that would destroy their targets within the atmosphere but without using a nuclear warhead . |
| 25 | MY message to women now is come to my shows , but keep your knickers on . |
| 26 | Thank you for secondly I was that the decision now is left to the the District Council er have you not discuss some parts of elements er could be addressed in the short term . |
| 27 | The asking price now is rumoured to be in the region of £15m . |
| 28 | It could be argued , however , that if a PhD really is expected to be in part a contribution to knowledge , then this factor should be built into the system , so that the information gathered in such a costly fashion should be published in some form before completion , as is expected in some other European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 29 | It could be argued , however , that if a Ph D really is expected to be in part a contribution to knowledge , then this factor should be built into the system , so that the information gathered in such a costly fashion should be published in some form before completion , as is expected in some other European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 30 | Most of the software it makes today is sold to individual users in homes or offices . |