Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] to [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 During her training , a student is assigned to various clinical areas for periods of six to twelve weeks .
2 In the meantime , Sunny is treated to regular weekly massages , hairdos and other beautician treatments .
3 We heard that if your body is exposed to constant rapid temperature changes , its mechanisms become stressed and this creates all sorts of problems which can result in breakdown .
4 By contrast , little attention is given to lesser funded ‘ acute ’ programmes such as those for the mentally ill , drug addiction and the provision of overseas aid .
5 The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital .
6 [ … ] However , this does not imply that transaction specificity is confined to physical durable assets : human investment in individual or team knowledge that is not fully transferable is also transaction specific .
7 So long as it is confined to strict military targets — roads , bridges , supply depots , gun emplacements — bombing need not alienate either public opinion in the West or the ordinary Serbs who must help change the minds of their stubborn , self-styled leaders .
8 We also know how deeply a person is committed to certain intellectual concepts .
9 The bill is expected to received royal assent in July , the regulations to come into force early 1994 .
10 Differential game theory is applied to various theoretical models and , eventually , to the empirical model in order to discuss the gains of coordination and issues of credibility and reputation .
11 Often these villages have two rows with square or rectangular village greens , and the regular plan of the crofts is related to early fiscal arrangements in the townships .
12 It was concluded that some platinum enrichment is related to primary magmatic differentiation but that many of the high values , particularly of palladium and gold , are the product of later alteration associated with deformation .
13 Clearly , stress has linguistic importance and is therefore an aspect of the phonology of English that must be described , but it is not usually regarded as something that is related to individual segmental phonemes ; normally , stress is said to be something that is applied to ( or is a property of ) syllables , and is therefore part of the suprasegmental phonology of English .
14 In terms of provenance , there is no evidence to suggest that feldspar CL is related to specific igneous or metamorphic origins .
15 Total traffic is related to general economic variables such as GDP and car ownership .
16 He argues that subject choice is related to adolescent psychological development .
17 It depends upon how such a change is theorized and this , in turn , is related to different theoretical accounts of how the economy changes and how it is organized .
18 Although there is strong evidence that unemployment is related to lowered psychological well-being and , over the long term , to the risk of mortality , less is understood about the mechanisms underlying such associations .
19 The structure of this argument is important because we find it repeated when we look at the traditional ways in which it is sought to legitimate private power .
20 All filming is produced to high archival standards producing three generations of film of which the archival negative is stored in suitable conditions and in a different building as part of the disaster control measures .
21 And the implications of genetics must be seen in a political context , for the use of genetic information is tied to prevailing political and economic ideologies and the interests of social institutions .
22 The lightness of Courtney 's sentence is obvious when it is compared to other recent sentences .
23 which is restricted to classic shell-type remnants .
24 4 ) , that ‘ a class is not in itself a community ’ , that ‘ the emergence of societal , or even communal action from a common class situation is by no means a universal phenomenon ’ , and that ‘ the extent to which ‘ communal action ’ and possible ‘ societal action ’ does emerge from the ‘ mass actions ’ of the members of a class is linked to general cultural conditions ' .
25 The project is linked to existing European efforts such as the Open Microprocessor Systems Initiative ( OMI ) and High Performance Computing ( HPC ) projects .
26 Nationalism is linked to deep-rooted human instincts and can not be easily ascribed to clever politicians .
27 It is suited to large multi-divisional firms producing a wide range of products and/or operating across several countries .
28 mineralise the compound directly , which means that the compound is converted to harmless organic molecules such as carbon dioxide and salts ;
29 Form 714 C The C certificate is issued to certain other companies .
30 The HAE has more than 2,500 member outlets spread throughout the UK , Ireland and Europe , and the association is affiliated to various overseas hire bodies .
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