Example sentences of "to be connected [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am sorry to have to disturb you at home , ma'am , but you do n't seem to be connected to the telephone system . ’
2 Some external callers have failed to be connected to the switchboard at all for considerable periods .
3 The mechanism is assumed to start at the rotation of the cam shaft A. This is seen to be connected to the sewing machine main drive system by a dog coupling at its lower end .
4 The charge is understood to be connected to the discovery of ten bags of fertiliser at a house in the west of the city last weekend .
5 Last night a County Durham police spokeswoman revealed Mr Dobson 's death appeared to be connected to the steam cleaner , which was still working when his body was found .
6 Following successful completion of this initial installation , new channel cables were laid to all the peripherals ( disks , tapes , printers etc ) which need to be connected to the system but existing connections to the two 600Js remained in place .
7 The closed-loop input impedance is easily found as To find the closed-loop output impedance , a source , is considered to be connected to the input in which case Assuming for simplicity that the feedback network negligibly loads the output and so from which the closed-loop output impedance is If further as is often the case ,
8 Although there are special fittings to allow washing machine waste pipes to be connected to the sink waste , the best way of plumbing in a washing machine is to make a permanent connection to the pipes in the kitchen for the water supply and to fit a stand pipe and trap leading through a hole in the outside wall for the waste pipe .
9 If the process is running , this will set up the required logical names and symbols , and the user then only has to type the symbol , specified by USERACCESSLOGICAL , to be connected to the process ( see Section 2.4 , LIFESPAN Configuration File ) .
10 Most prospective rural housebuilders were prepared to employ cesspits instead of mains drainage and to pay to be connected to the county 's ageing but still serviceable water supply system , whilst being content to build their houses alongside existing roads , dismissing any arguments about the aesthetics of ribbon development .
11 The pressure ‘ head ’ normally needed for operating an instantaneous water heater , typically 10m or 15psi ( pounds per square inch ) , means that they have to be connected to the mains .
12 Access is also to be extended to Eastern Europe , using funds from the Community 's PHARE programme under a separate contract between the EC and PTT Telecom : Poland , Hungary , Czech and Slovak Republics , Bulgaria and Romania are to be connected into the system .
13 The armed group was not believed to be connected with the Jungle Commando guerrilla group which has been fighting the Suriname Government on and off since 1986 , he said .
14 The idea of a plurality of ontological particulars , on the other hand , seems to be connected with the idea of irreducible relations , and the idea of irreducible relations , I have argued , raises the problem of objective order .
15 The survival potential of the egg outside the body varies , but appears to be connected with the thickness of the shell , which protects the larva from desiccation .
16 And the university provided them , greatly goosed on , I might say , by the then Vice Chancellor Aisa Briggs , who was very excited by the project , and that 's really how I came to be connected with the university .
17 Winifred Harper was diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson 's disease , which both she and Dr Newman suspected to be connected with the water poisoning .
18 A recent increase in reports is assumed to be connected with the re-establishment of a British breeding population .
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