Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 2 | The commitment to sterling has already been examined in relation to the political economy of Britain 's international role , the vested interests of the City of London and the nature of the system of government . |
| 3 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 4 | But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so . |
| 5 | Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier . |
| 6 | These are calculated by reference to the regulations and allowance is made for dependants , income tax , national insurance , housing costs , and work expenses . |
| 7 | Gains on property disposals are calculated by reference to historical net book value to the Group . |
| 8 | Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate . |
| 9 | Foundationalists suppose that there are two sorts of justification , and that the inferentially justified beliefs are justified by appeal to the non-inferentially justified ones . |
| 10 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 11 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 12 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 13 | When transfer payments are given in addition to a disturbance allowance , these are usually taxed . |
| 14 | In some instances the incidence of particular errors ( error rates ) are given in addition to a success rate . |
| 15 | ‘ Dublin has long been paralysed in relation to the Unionists , by an implicit veto of John Hume . |
| 16 | It should be noted that the relation sign does not indicate anything about the nature of the relationship between two subjects , but merely states that two or more concepts are treated in relation to one another in a document . |
| 17 | We found a similar trend in a previous study in Hertfordshire , the only other study in which a group of people has been traced from birth to death . |
| 18 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 19 | Again , the optic lobes are developed in proportion to the size of the eyes and the antennal lobes related to the development of the antennae and the senses mediated by them . |
| 20 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 21 | British Petroleum is taking a lead in advising Hungarian ( and Czech ) industry on what to do about large-scale redundancies in a country where unemployment has been limited by law to little more than 5 per cent . |
| 22 | Bloxham had always been fascinated by regression to what appeared to be past lives , and he would experiment with those of his patients who proved to be excellent subjects for hypnosis ( with their full permission and co-operation , of course ) , recording the outcome of these experiments . |
| 23 | None of them had been treated before admission to hospital , and none had any other medical disorders . |
| 24 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 25 | The majority of labour-only subcontract gangs are limited in size to a maximum of six persons . |
| 26 | The point of such clauses is to put the buyer in the position where his remedies for failure to perform or defective performance under the contract are limited in fact to compelling either proper performance under the contract ( by way of rework repair or replacement ) or the return of his money . |
| 27 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 28 | In the event sequence is shown the long-term mean , the linear trend , the well-defined cycle , and the intermittent signal so that a typical sample period as shown will produce statistics which are biased with respect to the whole sequence . |
| 29 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
| 30 | In many cases the static error can be reduced if several phases of the stepping motor are excited at the same time , so the potential benefits of multi-phase excitation are examined with reference to both hybrid and variable-reluctance stepping motors . |