Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mammals , about 50% of the carbohydrates consumed are normally oxidised to carbon dioxide and water to produce energy and about 30 to 40% are converted to fat . |
| 2 | The music for the piano is a selection from some fifty volumes of published music in the library , the work of twenty-five contemporary composers , which has been photographically reduced to scale . |
| 3 | Where a claim has been automatically referred to arbitration ( when £1,000 or less was claimed or in dispute , Ord 19 , r 2(3) ) , costs are limited to the summons costs , save by special order ( Ord 19 , r 6 ) . |
| 4 | AEA 's experience in quantitative assessment methods , which has been effectively applied to safety management decision making , is now applied where the objective is environmental protection . |
| 5 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 6 | Now another myth about female infertility has been finally laid to rest . |
| 7 | This technique has been successfully applied to lung washings from patients with sarcoidosis , and M tuberculosis DNA was detected in half of the samples . |
| 8 | The Software Performance Report ( SPR ) has been successfully submitted to LIFESPAN . |
| 9 | In the second type pancreatitis has been mostly related to malnutrition . |
| 10 | Beebob has been gradually coming to hand this season , and can strike winning form in the Guildhall Handicap Hurdle . |
| 11 | Since communism as well as ‘ socialism ’ has been forever assigned to history 's dustbin , there appears no pressing need for society to come to terms with just what that system was or how it continues to manifest itself . |
| 12 | After X has been so charged to income tax the £100,000 is advanced to X absolutely . |
| 13 | Steaming is not restricted to tube trains : it happens on buses , in shops and even department stores where large items are stolen en masse in broad daylight . |
| 14 | Laing is convinced that businesses which are run by people who have little understanding of the products being made are ultimately doomed to failure . |
| 15 | The formate produced is then converted to CO 2 and H 2 . |
| 16 | Perhaps she said things that would have been better left to silence . |
| 17 | If you just pull the plug it does n't have time to erase the temporary files it used and if you are using the latest SmartDrv utility you might even lose data that you thought was safely written to disk . |
| 18 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 19 | The media identifier specified is not known to LIFESPAN . |
| 20 | The module issue specified is not known to LIFESPAN . |
| 21 | The module name specified is not known to LIFESPAN . |
| 22 | The module specified is not known to LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | Action : The module specified is not known to LIFESPAN — check the name |
| 24 | The Likud Prime Minister , Mr Yitzhak Shamir , proposed holding the elections last May , but he is resolutely opposed to any role for Mr Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation , which he insists is still committed to terrorism . |
| 25 | It was a list of all bodies that had been positively identified to date . |
| 26 | He had been tentatively invited to dinner at Hampstead once or twice , but Dinah had not taken to him , except to mock and imitate him after he had gone . |
| 27 | Among those with motor neurone disease , five had been previously admitted to hospital with peptic ulcer in comparison with an expected number of 7.4 ( morbidity ration 0.68 , 95% confidence intervals : 0.2 to 1.6 ) . |
| 28 | The increasing judicial leniency shown to Sendero suspects had especially alienated the army from the judiciary , many of whose circuit judges had been habitually subjected to death threats by the guerrillas or were known to have accepted bribes from them . |
| 29 | Although Dowding 's administration had been narrowly returned to office in February 1989 [ see p. 36466 ] , its popularity continued to decline in the face of ongoing allegations concerning its financial competence and its relationship with beleaguered Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 30 | It had been almost razed to street level as the fire burnt all the wooden beams and the pews , but the lower hall was intact , water had seeped into the choir robing room and was spoiling the hymn books . |