Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through schemes , such as the Urban Programme and various training programmes , access to funds for local authorities has been shifted to areas in which they engage in some sort of partnership with the departments of central government . |
| 2 | A letter alleging offers of preferential inducements has been handed to the EC 's competition commissioner , Karl Van Miert . |
| 3 | Over the past ten years recruitment of nurses has been relatively ease Neither a great deal of effort nor man hours has been dedicated to the process . |
| 4 | The multiplication of agencies as a means to greater bureaucratic efficiency may be objected to on the grounds that one of the major obstacles to the successful implementation of government programmes has been found to be the existence of numerous competing administrative bodies which so many programmes seem to involve because of overlapping policy fields and jurisdictions ( Gunn 1978 ) . |
| 5 | A list of other available tennis courts has been sent to the tennis club committee . |
| 6 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 7 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 8 | Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 9 | A new competition , sponsored by John Makepeace , and a display of craft products has been dedicated to wood at an annual agricultural show in the South West . |
| 10 | Torvale Building Products has been sold to another firm . |
| 11 | Most significantly , the structure of many rifts examined by seismic methods has been shown to be asymmetric with most of the downthrow occurring along a major boundary listric fault on one side of the rift . |
| 12 | His teaching , or the teaching that over the centuries has been ascribed to him , brought into being the highly influential religion of Christianity . |
| 13 | An offer of thanks has been extended to those who helped to make the event a success . |
| 14 | The creation of highly selective band-pass or band-stop filters based on appropriate resonant branches has been alluded to in the previous section . |
| 15 | Statistical information about n-grams has been applied to the output to select a single most likely letter string result . |
| 16 | A DECISION on golf 's inclusion at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics has been referred to the IOC 's executive board meeting in Lausanne in March . |
| 17 | We like to think that the arrangement of books has been brought to a fine art , so it was good to hear the verdict of Evening News reporter Bob Watt that there was ‘ bookshop tranquillity ’ and that you could ‘ feel the order . ’ |
| 18 | Set in beautifully reconstructed formal gardens in accordance with the date of the original built in 1645 , it houses a museum in which the Netherlands Office for Fine Arts has been contracted to stage several temporary exhibitions of Dutch art . |
| 19 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
| 20 | The map , drawn up by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , highlights waters off up to 10 per cent of the British coast that could be designated as special areas for conservation under the directive , but so far discussion of the sites has been confined to marine scientists within the British statutory nature conservation bodies . |
| 21 | English Nature will be offering up to £500 per RIGS group , once information on the key sites has been passed to the relevant planning departments . |
| 22 | And finally , a lack of interest in and control over their children on the part of parents has been argued to be a vulnerability factor for these children in adult depression ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 23 | And none of the killers has been brought to justice . |
| 24 | An eleven year old boy who 's committed a string of motoring offences has been sent to a children 's centre two hundred miles from his home , because he keeps absconding . |
| 25 | Against this evidence certain points must be made ; no trial of antiarrhythmic agents in patients with increased ventricular ectopic counts has been shown to be beneficial ; in the case of the Cardiac Arrhythmia ( CAST ) trial it has proven detrimental . |
| 26 | A selection of flour-based mixes has been added to the Happy Chef own-label range , including De-Luxe Sponge Mix , Batter Mix , Scone Mix and Shortcrust Pastry Mix . |
| 27 | His contention is that much of the slump in mainframe revenues has been mis-attributed to downsizing mania whereas the recession should take of the blame — delay in large capital projects gives the impression that mainframes are in more trouble then they actually are , he suggests . |
| 28 | Well of course there 's been the erm joining of the two Leagues back to where they should have been , you know this silly split that was erm arose over the last couple of years has been put to bed now and sorted out . |
| 29 | In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ . |
| 30 | The price of places has been limited to £10 . |