Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After each side has declared its position , the negotiations are diverted to more technical questions about further remedies which might be tried , and then adjourned . |
| 2 | Shell International petroleum 's Head of Group Recruitment , Adrian Loader , wrote that : ‘ The Shell Group very rarely uses headhunters to recruit and the exceptions are limited to quite specific cases . |
| 3 | By the outbreak of the war the State had reorganised the railways into four companies where there had been 130 before ; nationally owned corporations had been created in broadcasting and air passenger transport ; a national grid for electricity supply had been created and a national supply industry organised ; agriculture had been rescued from the doldrums by regulation of its prices and quota systems ; while encouragement had been given to sometimes savage reductions of capacity in shipbuilding , textiles and mining . |
| 4 | Phragmata occupying these two positions have been referred to as pre- and postphragmata mata respectively and both may be carried by either the meso- or metathorax of some insects ; no phragma is ever borne by the prothorax . |
| 5 | No wonder that the whole process has been referred to as short or medium-term dumping . |
| 6 | In the attempt to combine the analysis of physical processes of soil erosion with that of human agricultural and pastoral practices , the expectations of natural and social scientists over the status and domain of proof tend to be irreconcilable ( for further discussion readers are referred to more detailed texts such as Winch 1958 ; Bernal 1969 ; Benton 1977 ; Gregory ( 1978 ) . |
| 7 | These presentations are referred to as pseudoisochromatic or confusion plates and set a task in which the normal eye can discriminate figures composed of coloured dots , whilst the eye with abnormal colour vision can not do so . |
| 8 | The threads are known as ‘ gas ’ or BSP ( British Standard Pipe ) threads : those on pipes are referred to as male while the internal threads on fittings are known as female . |
| 9 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 10 | Other collocates exist as lexical phenomena , and are referred to as syntagmatic or lexical collocates . |
| 11 | This is why the letter detectors are referred to as abstract : they do not provide information about specific visual form . |
| 12 | However , in such studies , pipe and cigar smokers were usually defined as those who had never smoked cigarettes : these primary smokers tend not to inhale and so are exposed to relatively low amounts of tar and other harmful constituents of the tobacco smoke compared with cigarette smokers . |
| 13 | Through reference to pictures produced by Aboriginal children in Australia , Wales illustrates what can occur when children are exposed to quite different cultural influences . |
| 14 | Managers have not , on the whole , been predisposed to numerically oriented analysis , clinicians have not pushed for cost or outcome data preferring to focus upon patient care processes and cash inputs have been on the basis of fairly crude recurring allocations . |
| 15 | Many are attracted to more pleasant housing in the New Towns which are being built . |
| 16 | While it would be misleading to suggest that small firms are important across all manufacturing industries , it is also incorrect to assume that small firms are confined to traditionally labour-intensive industries like textiles , clothing , furnishing or ceramics . |
| 17 | An even more potent example is the European eagle owl , which in forested regions produces prey assemblages of high diversity , reflecting the faunal composition in these regions , but in the collections from Qatar , where the same species lives in near-desert conditions , its prey assemblages are dominated to very large extent by a single species , which is also the most common large rodent in that part of the desert . |
| 18 | A thermal imager uses detectors of cadmium mercury telluride , which detect infrared radiation when they are cooled to very low temperatures . |
| 19 | Engineers were reported to suspect that one of the telescope 's two mirrors had been manufactured to slightly incorrect specifications , resulting in a distortion of images in the visible spectrum . |
| 20 | Never before , as the Banks put it , had the arguments in favour of limiting the size of the family been presented to so large a public . |
| 21 | Conclusions about the lack of success with young offenders have been transferred to quite different groups such as the elderly or mentally handicapped as well as to children and young people in care generally . |
| 22 | The neutrons came from fusion reactions between particles that had been accelerated to very high energies by magnetic fields the scientists were using to contain the very hot ionised gases that were supposed to support fusion . |
| 23 | The way in which learning materials are presented to visually handicapped pupils will be the major concern of the specialist teacher or adviser . |
| 24 | I read , for example , that the Russian MiG fighters are built to very high specifications and that the Russians are keen to sell them to raise hard currency . |
| 25 | The rich sonority of the lower register , in particular , has been exploited to both sinister and tranquil effect from Mahler , Stravinsky , and Prokofiev , to composers of the present day . |
| 26 | Adverse effects on fish have been attributed to either sudden short-term or gradual long-term decreases in pH . |
| 27 | We have seen an example of this general short-sightedness in the the cultural community 's reactions to the tragedy of Los Angeles , which like other conflicts today has been attributed to purely local factors . |
| 28 | During this rather curious period when one 's thoughts are free to wander we are sometimes aware that the quality of sensation we are used to when awake has changed . |
| 29 | Bearing metals are supplied to both British and ASTM specifications , and are manufactured under the strictest quality control . |
| 30 | The edges of the neck and headstock have been bound to very good effect , with commendable attention to detail . |