Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rather like the American system of presidential elections except that in the American system , the people who are voted for are tied to a particular candidate , so it 's really just erm a convoluted way of having a direct system rather than a genuinely indirect system here . |
| 2 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 3 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 4 | The report states that those who have lived on state pensions , income support or low pay , are most likely to live in the most energy-inefficient homes which are incapable of being heated to a minimum comfort standard . |
| 5 | This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling . |
| 6 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 7 | Bad temper could be either a cause or effect of being admitted to a residential home . |
| 8 | The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed . |
| 9 | R&D is such a system and is capable of being described to a useful extent in catastrophe terms . |
| 10 | Agriculture , the remaining industry to be considered , presents the paradox of being subjected to an enormous apparatus of state regulation while landowners have remained firmly among the leading cadres of the Tory Party . |
| 11 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 12 | To prevent women from being relegated to a secondary role . |
| 13 | If the objects of the society are not charitable , the rule against perpetuities ( see p. 42 ) , from which charities , provided that they are to begin within the perpetuity period , are exempt , will make void any gift of property by way of permanent endowment , whether made by will or otherwise ; but there is nothing to prevent gifts or bequests from being made to a non-charitable society in such terms that it can , at any time , dispose of the capital at its pleasure . |
| 14 | First , it revived international concern over what had often been called the ‘ forgotten war ’ — although it had by then lasted longer than the Second World War , it was still far from being brought to a formal end . |
| 15 | New tenants , particularly from non-conforming households such as single parents , tend to be given the poorer standard housing and are expected to prove their ability to look after and improve their home before being transferred to a better property . |
| 16 | The labelled cells were washed once with cell free plasma before being transferred to a heparinised plastic syringe for reinjection . |
| 17 | They were allowed twenty two sparse words before being taken to a Nazi Concentration camp . |
| 18 | In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one . |
| 19 | Muslin is another good choice , but it will have to be fixed to a well-made frame that fits the tank exactly . |
| 20 | Instead , a red quark has to be joined to a green and a blue quark by a " string " of gluons ( red + green + blue white ) . |
| 21 | MORE than 200 council houses in the Cordale area of Renton are to be transferred to a community-based housing association . |
| 22 | The 200 companies and 369 local authority undertakings , together with the Central Electricity Board and the nearly 300 power stations owned and operated by these organisations , were to be transferred to a new public body , the British Electricity Authority . |
| 23 | I shall arrange for her to be transferred to a private hospital where she can have her own room with a TV and a phone beside the bed . |
| 24 | RDBI The Relational Database Interface product allows data held by LIFESPAN to be transferred to a relational database where it may then be queried by users . |
| 25 | This manual explains how to use LIFESPAN RDBI , the Relational Database Interface product , which allows data held by LIFESPAN to be transferred to a relational database , where it may be queried by users . |
| 26 | There are four too with German clubs in the Bundesliga second and third divisions while the top local is 19-year-old striker Eimantas Poderis of the leading club Zhalgiras Vilnius who is expected to be transferred to a German club within the next few months . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the hostages were to be transferred to a safe house in Cyprus and then spirited away by sea . |
| 28 | Where proceedings are pending in the High Court , the court may order them to be transferred to a specified county court ( r 7.11(1) ) . |
| 29 | ‘ To call for them to be applied to a non-Muslim society is nonsense . ’ |
| 30 | The conversation needs to be turned to a good old chat about the history of the area ; for example , was there any mining ? |