Example sentences of "is [vb pp] to [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 Aryan conception , human evil ( guilt and suffering ) is traced to active sacrilege , which is masculine ( der Frevel ) and committed by a man . |
| 3 | Normally , one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability . |
| 4 | Instead of being largely obscured , as it is in the conventional process , the beautiful grain of the timber is highlighted to stunning effect . |
| 5 | GEOGRAPHY is taught to Standard Grade , Higher Grade and Certificate of Sixth Year Studies levels and we are one of only a few schools to offer GEOLOGY Higher Grade . |
| 6 | We organize family accommodation and , as classes take place in schools where English is taught to local inhabitants , there is every opportunity for making friends and for conversation exchange . |
| 7 | One does not wish to repeat oneself unduly and the reader is referred to other parts of this book which have relevance in this matter of sexual offences against children ( see Chapters 4 and 5 ) . |
| 8 | The reader is referred to other sources for a proper treatment of these matters . |
| 9 | If Ironside is recalled to Ayresome Park , Scarborough will have to chose between walking wounded Steve Hewitt and YTS keeper Neil Robinson . |
| 10 | The activity of each Myc protein in both assays is normalized to wild-type Myc activity ( 100% ) . |
| 11 | In the meantime , Sunny is treated to regular weekly massages , hairdos and other beautician treatments . |
| 12 | In these experiments , all mesenchyme underlying the AER is exposed to exogenous FGF-4 . |
| 13 | The Tory calculation is that Labour 's unity is a facade which will crack the moment it is exposed to stormy assault . |
| 14 | The board is exposed to UV light for a period of up to 20 minutes or so . |
| 15 | This means that a child who is exposed to violent models may be less inclined to halt or inhibit aggressive actions when given the opportunity . |
| 16 | As the water is recycled through the system it is exposed to germicidal radiation , which clears algae but does not produce sterile water . |
| 17 | Excessive fading can occur if a rug is exposed to long periods of strong sunlight , and is best avoided by either relocating the rug or putting it in storage for the summer . |
| 18 | They are usually called upon to advise management in situations where the company is exposed to adverse opinion . |
| 19 | Now that much of American industry is exposed to international competition , barriers against foreigners in the transport business also look odd . |
| 20 | The award of the Nobel prize to Rigoberta Menchu means that Guatemala is exposed to international scrutiny in a way it has never been exposed before . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The stomach is exposed to dietary hazards and potential carcinogens throughout life , but the origins of gastric carcinoma within normal mucosa remain unknown . |
| 23 | On the conscious level , sexuality was to me only one of the responsibilities of adulthood : as far the sexual act itself was concerned , I simply did n't want to know , as a child who is exposed to sexual information at an age when she/he feels incapable of absorbing it will not want to know . |
| 24 | Porter International is adapting it for power plants , inland waterway structures , any place which is exposed to raw water , where plant or animal life can choke up intakes or block piping . |
| 25 | But through Marine Midland and its stake in Britain 's Midland Bank , it is exposed to dodgy third-world debt , as well as to the tumbling property market in north-east America and the troubled British economy . |
| 26 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
| 27 | One possibility is that the colic represents an initial ‘ crisis ’ reaction as the child is exposed to large amounts of cow's-milk or other foreign proteins . |
| 28 | It can be caused when skin that is n't used to the sun is exposed to short bursts of strong sunlight . |
| 29 | If this seems an abstruse form of cultivation it is not one that is limited to modern agriculture , but can be found in many suburban gardens where , acre for acre , the concentrations of both fertilizer and pesticide are higher than on the average arable farm . |
| 30 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |