Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In solid floors , pipes can be laid in an underfloor duct ( not embedded in concrete ) ; note that all pipes and joints should be accessible and , where exposed to cold temperatures , well insulated . |
| 2 | One consequence is that less opportunity exists in 6 Form colleges for staff who are less than committed to pastoral care , to be carried . |
| 3 | Robin Horton , in a widely cited article on African systems of thought ( 1967 ) , likewise attempted to break down the elements of scientific thinking in order to demonstrate that so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples such as the Azande did in fact make use of the same elements of thought , although applied to different content . |
| 4 | Thus , the traditional grounds for identifying genuine nationalisms are either derived from the oppressive context or established by the independent State ( even if , in both cases , symbols are borrowed from the past , albeit transformed to modern purposes ) . |
| 5 | Although subjected to heavy pressure from abolitionists , most of them on their own benches , the Labour Government had avoided giving any commitment on the future of the death penalty . |
| 6 | If taught to small children as a stepping-stone to the ABC , it could wait a lifetime until everyone had grown up knowing both systems , then the better would simply oust the worst — as the arabic numerals have eventually ousted the roman ones . |
| 7 | Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , Scotland 's Lord Advocate , said he would have resigned if exposed to political pressure , and Assistant Attorney-General Bob Mueller insisted that no one had even tried to influence the investigation . |
| 8 | Such animals may develop the disease if exposed to heavy larval challenge as might occur on pasture recently vacated by calves suffering from clinical husk . |
| 9 | I thought this idea might work well if transposed to pressed flowers . |
| 10 | A degree of Associate Membership might be applicable if confined to interested parties , such as Doctors . |
| 11 | Secondary porosity occurs mostly at sites of leached-away detrital grains — ‘ moldic porosity ’ , leading to an increase of effective porosity if connected to primary porosity . |
| 12 | Little attempt , until quite recently has been made to relate all this material to the site-stratification , or to consider the social and economic evidence these artefacts could give us if related to particular periods or parts of the site . |
| 13 | A scrip alternative , if offered to ordinary shareholders , will enable them to increase their shareholdings in the Company without incurring dealing costs and , to the extent that ordinary shareholders elect to take new ordinary shares instead of cash , there will be enhanced cash flow and increased liquidity to the Company . |
| 14 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 15 | as if damned to perpetual motion — decay |
| 16 | Essential information conveyed in this way may be denied completely to blind students , or if converted to simple raised lines may become confused and meaningless . |
| 17 | This type of aerobic exercise is much more enjoyable if practised to pop music . |
| 18 | If it is directed to his particular case , the Home Secretary should disregard it at this stage unless it was evidence at the trial ; if directed to penal policy in general , it is merely a small part of his information as to public opinion . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 20 | It appears that about two-thirds of well documented cases of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in the United Kingdom will prove infected , and that at least a sixth of patients with cryptosporidiosis will have AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis if subjected to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography . |
| 21 | As an example it gives the ‘ extreme case ’ of chalk areas once downland but converted to cereals mainly in the 1960s and 1970s which , if returned to unfertilised grassland , would reduce nitrate to 50 mg/litre only after 2040 . |
| 22 | AI stated that it strongly feared that the refugee population would be at risk of certain torture , ‘ disappearance ’ or execution if returned to Iraqi Government control . |
| 23 | Here , all timber was decorated with Weathershield Exterior Woodstain , which needs no undercoat unless applied to new or bare wood . |
| 24 | Most are ill-adapted to the demands of modern , mechanised agriculture and , unless converted to new uses , may well disappear . |
| 25 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 26 | The Smiths , for example , while signed to Rough Trade , are handled and distributed by the major London Records . |
| 27 | Hurt by ‘ the ungenerous treatment which I met with from that very sex whose sufferings I was at so much pains to relieve ’ , he was glad to leave Aberdeen when recalled to active duty in the Royal Navy . |
| 28 | The technique makes use of the properties that water develops when heated to high temperatures at high atmospheric pressures . |
| 29 | A clearer proof that cells change when exposed to new influences from outside is afforded by embryonic induction , first described by Spemann in 1924 . |
| 30 | When exposed to sudden changes in medium osmolality , cells behave initially as osmometers , swelling in hypo-osmotic media and shrinking in hyperosmotic media . |