Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |
| 2 | The Cabinet , appointed by the President , has hitherto been subordinate to the UNIP central committee . |
| 3 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 4 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 5 | It would be churlish to suggest Lewis fights under a flag of convenience or that his status as world champion has only been able to be enjoyed by default . |
| 6 | Known as the Cabinet War Rooms , the complex has only been open to the public since 1983 . |
| 7 | The function of the Petit Meslier has thus been similar to that of the Petit Verdot in Bordeaux . |
| 8 | Additionally the political atmosphere has not been conducive to encouraging oil companies to engage in active exploration and development though this still continues despite the pull-out of Exxon and Mobil . |
| 9 | So far , the bridging fund has not been applicable to many of the circumstances farmers have been needing to apply for . ’ |
| 10 | Latvia , in common with other former republics of the now defunct Soviet Union , is looking to the West not only for help but ideas as it tries to rebuild its shattered economy and create a better way of life in a society which has not been used to making decisions for itself . |
| 11 | Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament . |
| 12 | For some years housing benefit has not been available to students in halls of residence or similar accommodation . |
| 13 | The experience of unemployment has not been exclusive to people who left school under a Conservative Government . |
| 14 | While awaiting the views of the European Court , will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that Presbyterians in Scotland enjoy shopping on Sundays and that has not been detrimental to those who wish to attend church ? |
| 15 | Mr Dewar called for the setting up of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs — it was , he said ‘ a disgrace that the Scottish Office uniquely has not been subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny ’ . |
| 16 | The market for top quality works by Matisse has not been subject to speculative buying , according to David Nash , head of Sotheby 's New York Impressionist Department . |
| 17 | The carpet has not been subject to spillages , animals , etc . |
| 18 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 19 | The domestic banking system has ( since the early 1980s ) been completely free of formal restrictions on the supply of credit and has not been subject to reserve requirements . |
| 20 | Since Schoenberg 's day , modernism has has not been averse to self-serving diatribes . |
| 21 | Since the introduction of the business sectors of BR , Railfreight has not been slow to totally eliminate certain freight-only routes where an alternative existed , albeit , invariably longer . |
| 22 | Upon the accession taking effect , the Basic Law of the FRG … shall enter into force in the Länder of Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia and in that part of Land Berlin where it has not been valid to date , subject to the amendments arising from Article 4 , unless otherwise provided in this Treaty . |
| 23 | But overall , 75% of you have not had an affair — although only 65% are confident that their husband/partner has not been unfaithful to them . |
| 24 | Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament . |
| 25 | ( 12 ) No election held in pursuance of this Act shall be deemed to be vitiated in consequence of any technical defect in the proceedings which has not been prejudicial to the interests of any party concerned in such election . |
| 26 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 27 | The weather has not been kind to the river in recent weeks and today is no exception . |
| 28 | Time has not been kind to this view either . |
| 29 | The 20C has not been kind to the Jews and the community in Prague has never recovered from its suffering at the hands of the Nazis . |
| 30 | Nonlinear optics is perhaps unique among systems showing chaos in that a fully quantum mechanical description of the phenomena is conceivable : there is the interesting and exciting prospect that the next few years may reveal what , if anything , is meant by " quantum turbulence " , and all-optical systems such as those described or proposed above are likely to be in the forefront of experimental tests of such concepts . |