Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manual returns are sent to head office , and data for consolidation entered into Microsoft Excel to produce management accounts . |
| 2 | Much work is being undertaken there , including the renovation of outbuildings to provide accommodation for another 25 followers , and practical skills are put to good use . |
| 3 | To some extent , these sectoral preferences are related to ethno-religious lines of demarcation ( Boal and Poole 1976 ) ; certainly it is reasonable to view inner-city communities east and west of the river as each having a higher-status ethnic counterpart . |
| 4 | Clubs are made to standard size and are suitable for the vast majority of players . |
| 5 | The Scottish Office says forty-five per cent of the cases are related to homosexual activity and thirty-two per cent to intravenous drug abuse . |
| 6 | This perspective aims to present teaching as a self-conscious enquiring enterprise whereby classroom activities are referred to theoretical principles of one sort or another . |
| 7 | Forms are forwarded to senior tutors on the basis of their current ‘ ranking ’ . |
| 8 | According to ancient Chinese medicine , individual teeth are connected to different body parts through a series of meridians . |
| 9 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 10 | The aim of this research is to investigate the extent to which different reading patterns are related to different patterns of strength and weakness in performance in tasks which do not involve reading per se , but tap aspects of cognition which are relevant to the acquisition of reading . |
| 11 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 12 | Apart from harmonizing measures formulated for the purpose of establishing a common market , whose regulators will have a keen interest in acts in one member State that can produce effects in others , most harmonization instruments dealing with contracts are confined to international transactions . |
| 13 | Housing programmes are reduced to dismal levels . |
| 14 | However , while agreeing with Bolinger in almost every instance on his raw data , as to which adjectives are limited to prenominal position and which are ambiguous , we disagree with him in almost all cases as to the underlying reasons . |
| 15 | Capital products are designed to exacting Crabtree standards , and are available in moulded , right through to metal plate and metal-clad finishes . |
| 16 | The second reason why the CAP can not survive is that all practical considerations are subordinated to political expediency . |
| 17 | These databases are distributed to molecular biologists throughout the world , reaching a user community of some 10,000 researchers . |
| 18 | Bonuses are related to overall group or organizational performance ( Dore , 1973 : 94–110 ) . |
| 19 | Today most of the remaining fragments are confined to sheltered gorges or inaccessible crags or to some islands in inland lochs , the latter often displaying a wind-contoured profile . |
| 20 | The aim of one-stop shopping is lost and is not fulfilled where the parties are exposed to double jeopardy , that is , where a merger may be investigated both by the Commission under Community law and by national authorities under domestic law . |
| 21 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 22 | As its name implies , this is a market in which funds are lent to local authorities . |
| 23 | My thanks are owed to countless sportsmen and women for providing ammunition for my fortnightly meanderings . |
| 24 | When ‘ authentic ’ performances are coupled to intelligent , informative and visually stimulating presentation like this , who needs coffee table books ? |
| 25 | The words are attributed to Ulpian . |
| 26 | The rock garden is dismantled , beds filled in , and borders are reduced to ragged strips struggling for survival along the boundary fence . |
| 27 | Both parties exchange information on respective activities and new opportunities are identified to mutual advantage . ’ |
| 28 | For some reason , flowerpots or coconut shells are preferred to rocky structures , though , of course , a flowerpot can easily be camouflaged with stones . |
| 29 | It provided for the unimpeded movement of foreign exchange and gold into and out of the country by both Philippine residents and overseas investors , and removed the requirement that foreign exchange earned abroad by Philippine-based commodity and service exporters be sold to Manila-based banks . |
| 30 | Long , muscled legs were shown to full advantage by a pair of crisp khaki shorts . |