Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the earliest investment projects undertaken are likely to be the most profitable , i.e. offering the highest expected yearly returns ( R ) , and therefore having the highest marginal efficiencies of investment ( i ) . |
| 2 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 3 | The demand for control of our landscapes , or environment , in order to preserve or create pleasant amenities has been due to the work of many people organised in groups . |
| 4 | The methods used are similar to the statistical techniques that have been arrived at independently in this project . |
| 5 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 6 | By 1926 new and much more powerful express passenger and freight locomotive designs had been prepared to his directions and , whilst these were nullified by opposition within a divided management structure , in 1927 the Royal Scot express locomotives were introduced for principal main-line services . |
| 7 | If the lower clergy had been sympathetic to church reform on ‘ Jansenist ’ lines the hierarchy was hostile and , as the liberal attack on church property developed , it was joined by all but a handful of liberal priests . |
| 8 | Although the parameters obtained are analogous to those of graphical statistics their derivation employs the entire grain population and so they are more representative than the graphically derived values . |
| 9 | The tobacco growers had been accustomed to trading practically exclusively with their home country for reasons of language and sentiment , because it was safer , and because England and the London re-export trade provided an adequate market for all the tobacco they could grow . |
| 10 | In its November 1987 Offer For Sale Eurotunnel stated that ‘ safety and security considerations have been central to the overall design of the System and the plans for its operation ’ . |
| 11 | Fortunately , major contemporary building styles have been subject to detailed analysis in terms of their social significance . |
| 12 | Because of these difficulties artificial bile solutions have been prepared to a total ionic strength of 0.295 mmol/l . |
| 13 | Monetarists have been hostile to Keynesian attempts at demand management in principle , arguing that they are inflationary . |
| 14 | The fact that such apparently simple management methods work is astonishing to some parents . |
| 15 | Ever since Stone Age man began to keep livestock and cultivate crops , farming methods have been subject to change . |
| 16 | OVER the past decade , experimental methods have been used to increasing effect to discover the empirical strengths and weaknesses of economic theories , and to supplement empirical evidence obtained using more conventional econometric methods . |
| 17 | These complex relationships have been central to the fortunes of the two countries over the past three centuries . |
| 18 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 19 | Pension funds have been subject to close scrutiny and performance measurement . |
| 20 | The SAS and LBS have been subject to a process known as ‘ Barnardisation ’ , in order to blur them and make sure that individuals or households can not be identified . |
| 21 | The areas visited were comparable to Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire . |
| 22 | This society 's accounting policy on provisions is that ‘ provisions are made to reduce the value of loans and advances to the amount which the directors consider is likely to be ultimately received ’ . |
| 23 | Inspection of graph ( b ) shows that with a given money supply of £50 million , equilibrium is achieved when the transactions demand is equal to £30 million . |
| 24 | If lesion A affects function X but not function Y while lesion B affects function Y but not function N , it is reasonable to assume that the effects observed are specific to the loci of lesions A and B rather than to the general effects of brain damage . |
| 25 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |
| 26 | Prior to the technical innovations by the Coal Board , miners had been used to working in small autonomous groups or teams . |
| 27 | Its 99 articles had been subject to public scrutiny since January and the final endorsement of each one provoked lengthy and often heated exchanges among CNU representatives . |
| 28 | The Maidenhead , Windsor and Eton areas have been subject to flooding from the River Thames for generations . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , despite these important reservations , it is clear that the kinds of policies effected by larger companies have been unfavourable to the older conurbations . |
| 30 | Some values , attitudes and emotions have been subject to modification over time , but the essential orientations outlined above have not been discarded . |