Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] to " in BNC.

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31 Some small instrumented areas have been selected as representative of particular conditions whereas others were experimental , in which change due to logging or other forms of land use change could be monitored either by change in one basin or by comparison of several areas in which changes were taking place to differing degrees .
32 Gas prices in the Netherlands are linked to the price of heating oil and have fallen due to the generally over-supplied nature of the oil products market .
33 Cossutta told some 1,500 delegates meeting in Rome that the Soviet Communist Party had fallen due to its own errors , not because of any flaws in the ideals of the 1917 October revolution .
34 The move is needed to secure profitability which has fallen due to world-wide over capacity in uranium enrichment .
35 It was presented ‘ for outstanding care for his father , who was paralysed due to a stroke . ’
36 The possibility of overspending due to inevitable inaccuracy in the estimate should be guarded against by the inclusion of contingency sums .
37 The introduction of a job-sharing scheme can be useful in two differing circumstances : first , where there are insufficient full-time posts to meet the number of applicants and , second , when the posts can not be filled due to insufficient numbers .
38 Seri I mean due to some physical difficulties or or whatever .
39 A system of managed floating enables exchange rates to be determined essentially by private market forces , but governments intervene in the foreign exchange markets to try and moderate any short-term fluctuations which may arise due to destabilizing capital flows or other factors .
40 They may arise due to poor quality of print , letters being printed together , a variety of fonts being used , the document being submitted to the scanner at an angle , an unknown font being used , etc .
41 When dealing with levels of transitions higher than bigrams storage problems can arise due to the size of the transition matrix .
42 But confusion can arise due to the difference in sizes between packages or glasses , and the definition of a unit varies widely from country to country .
43 Even then , however , an instability can arise due to " mode-splitting " .
44 In the past 25 years the population has trebled due to the building program .
45 It included a house in the tiny seaside village of Cramer , which clung low to the land in an attempt to avoid the rough seas and wild winds that buffeted the coast for what seemed to Nora most of the year .
46 In the past these synthesizing studies have been difficult to perform due to the lack of a technology which allows the storing , retrieval , analysis , manipulation and display of large volumes of data relating to areal units and their properties .
47 However , as discussed in Chapter 1 , a clause excluding liability for failure to perform due to circumstances beyond his control ( usually called a " force majeure " clause ) is considered reasonable both commercially , and for the purposes of s 3 of the UCTA .
48 It is normal for blood pressure and pulse rates to fall due to the effect of anaesthetic drugs and gases on the cardiac and respiratory centres .
49 The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment .
50 In a moment I will massage her poor feet which have swollen due to inactivity and the hot weather .
51 As he and Chancellor Norman Lamont remain deaf to the pleas of the small businessmen , the Government 's policies are hurting all right .
52 Can you tell me if there has been a supplementary update disk issued to enable KX-P1124i to be used to its full potential .
53 The tenant should resist a provision that interest should be deemed to be rent due to the landlord as this will have the effect of making available the remedy of distress as well as that of forfeiture without the necessity to serve a s 146 notice .
54 Towards the end of the era , in fact , the attendants in the salons of homage became alert to the fact that among their few Western visitors , the majority were not as in awe of the Conducator as they might be and photographing the exhibits or taking notes of the sycophantic citations attached to the awards by their Western donors was discouraged .
55 I could also see the colour of paint I was using due to the pearly-white bristles .
56 Where visitors have contributed to the injuries they have sustained due to the defendant 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , then the damages to which they are entitled may be reduced .
57 Ace pressed the remote-control button and the room became alive to the sound of highly tuned engines revving up .
58 The remaining 90 per cent of cases remained an obstinate mystery until the middle fifties , when it became possible to culture this obscure organism on the yolk-sac of the chicken embryo .
59 Anderson 's interruptions are evidence of both his power with respect to other interlocutors and the level of his concern to remain polite to them .
60 The eggs were difficult to see due to this positioning , but the topmost eggs occasionally come into view , swaying in the turbulence caused by the parents fanning .
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