Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise stock may be withdrawn to many areas without proper records being kept . |
| 2 | You know what I mean , that is down to the individual really is that er that they should actually find out and i , that needs to be highlighted to all |
| 3 | Yes , erm , erm obviously not made it very well , but erm , but the word acceptable ought to be altered to increased |
| 4 | The text flow can be interrupted at any time by clicking the mouse or the flow method can be altered to semi-automatic or back to manual by clicking in conjunction with the Command or Shift keys . |
| 5 | The periods of 7 and 14 days should certainly be amended to 14 and 28 days . |
| 6 | The language of the original , or oddities of spelling or punctuation , can be amended to some degree — an important consideration when using such material with primary school pupils or pupils with learning difficulties . |
| 7 | Erm the next erm feature is the yellow one for the Liberal Democrats , there 's one Liberal Democrat typographical error and that 's on the second page page four of the resolutions and you 'll see that in the second column there 's a total three , three , three five , that should be amended to , sorry three , three , three five that should be amended to three , one , five , five and then where it says nine the resource budget immediately below that nine , four , five , ninety four five O , it 's three hundred and sixty thousand , three hundred and sixty million , six hundred thousand , that stays the same . |
| 8 | In another snub , the amount saved will be redirected to Labour councillors and MEPs . |
| 9 | Any resultant interest and penalty charges will have to be explained to dissatisfied clients . |
| 10 | For Oakeshott , modern collectivism is not to be traced to Hobbesian authoritarianism . |
| 11 | The schizophrenic 's and schizotypal individual 's hypersensitivity , which many clinicians have emphasised , can be traced to weak modulation of stimuli that impinge upon the mind , leading to an undue awareness of events — both internal and external — less available to others . |
| 12 | It reiterates an orthodoxy whose source can be traced to one specific article ( Lemann , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | If a reductive programme of this kind is possible , we may be tempted to provide a rational reconstruction of our knowledge which shows how the credibility of derived claims can be traced to that of the foundation . |
| 14 | The development of paper money can be traced to economic and social developments in Western Europe during the 1600s . |
| 15 | This type of survey was first developed seriously in the United States , and its importance can similarly be traced to economic and social factors peculiar to that country at a particular stage in its history . |
| 16 | In each case the context-dependency can be traced to specific deictic expressions or indexicals . |
| 17 | This can be traced to two , radically different , political forces . |
| 18 | It is true that the increasing scale of certain enterprises in post war Britain can be traced to speculative financial considerations ( primarily among those which Channon identifies as ‘ acquisitive diversifiers ’ ) , and that many such enterprises have failed to exploit economies of scale and have shown a poor record even in terms of profitability . |
| 19 | Dieter Schori in Das Floss in Ozeanien argues that occurrences of surfing elsewhere can all be traced to Polynesian influence . |
| 20 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 21 | I believe that the paradoxes of the mind-body relationship can be traced to this logical structure and their solution to be found in the light of this interpretation . |
| 22 | The renewed development of the market in the 1980s can be traced to three principal factors . |
| 23 | The origin and symbolic meaning of some individual motifs and designs are well documented , but the majority can not be traced to any undisputed source , and a number of conflicting mythologies have grown up around them . |
| 24 | The origins of the battle , however , can be traced to 29 July 1914 , before the outbreak of war , when the British Fleet was prudently dispatched by Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , to its war station at Scapa Flow , off the northeastern tip of Scotland . |
| 25 | Some elements may be traced to medieval times or even earlier , but in the main local government is a product of nineteenth-century urbanisation . |
| 26 | Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times . |
| 27 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
| 28 | And since each book here can be traced to those whose decision it was to discard , it is important to emphasise that no personal blame is implied , and that the responsibility for what occurred is not his necessarily , but of those who employed him . |
| 29 | They have to decide what problems they can deal with and which need to be referred to outside specialists . ’ |
| 30 | In such instances , after discussion with the patient when appropriate , these problems may be referred to other members of the health care team such as medical staff , dieticians , physiotherapists or social workers . |