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

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1 In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) .
2 Gardeners looking for something different are turning to a new hobby … growing meat-eating plants .
3 Some are fitted to the accessory shoe on the top of camcorders and operate off their own battery supplies .
4 The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation .
5 Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding .
6 Who thought of them can only be imagined , but it is obvious that some are attributed to the physical build or character while others have probably got connections with the work they did , terms which have died with them .
7 Moreover the number of universities in Joseph 's dominions had by 1790 been reduced to a mere three ( Vienna , Louvain and Pest ) and these had been forced to concentrate on such useful subjects as medicine and law and virtually to end the teaching of luxury ones such as foreign languages .
8 But eventually the French are reduced to a small band , and Roland realizes that he did wrong to send his faithful followers to death by his proud refusal to blow the oliphant .
9 I have a Turner drum winch ( ex-MOD 1964 ) which i-powered from the starting handle dog Can this be fitted to a 90 County diesel ?
10 The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government .
11 Many of the vehicles found their way back to the West , some were delivered to the Middle East and some to the Soviet Union .
12 Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living .
13 This is given to every one of your employees on 5th April .
14 So the role of the federal government in financing the states has increased immensely and you might think that carries with it certain political implications and it does , but it 's important to understand how small this is compared to the total picture .
15 This is fastened to a top and bottom line which is 100 yards long .
16 In the approach used in this text , the E-R model is used in conceptual modelling because it is much more semantically rich than the relational model , but this is mapped to a relational model because most commercial databases are relational and it is more convenient for logical mapping .
17 We must also be aware that very important cultural factors will also be involved in choice of site for a settlement and that this is related to the overall settlement pattern in an area .
18 Pacific Telesis Group Inc expects to report a net loss for full year 1993 after estimated charges of $2,000m related to accounting changes and other restructuring and disposition reserves : the accounting change on future retiree health benefits will reduce first quarter pre-tax profit by $2,600m and first quarter net by $1,600m , and an accounting change on post-employment benefits , such as long-term disability and workers ' compensation , will reduce first quarter net by $151m ; it will also establish reserves that will lower net profit by about $260m — some $210m of this is related to the recent decision to dispose of its property portfolio over the next three to five years , the balance to withdrawal from or restructuring of cable and equipment businesses , and costs following spin-off of the cellular operation ; its Pacific Bell subsidiary will recognise employee benefits liability over 20 years , consistent with a decision by the California Public Utilities Commission .
19 Sometimes this is related to the dietary preferences and habits of other family members ( Hertzler 1983b ) .
20 The relationship between disability and handicap is rather more complex as this is related to the physical environment , the availability of helpers and the kinds of social role that the individual is expected to fulfil .
21 This is charged to the opposite potential to that held by the droplet and attracts the ink into the paper .
22 Wherever possible he uses machinery to help speed up the process but this is limited to a band-saw , a lathe and a thick strip of metal known as a bending iron .
23 However , in most commercial systems this is limited to a predefined set of English commands .
24 This is limited to the lefthand end of the utterance when a left-to-right strategy is used .
25 Since Mao they 've definitely taken the view that they should stabilize their population numbers as soon as possible , and they now have the most restrictive policies in relation to families , deferral of marriage , penalties for those couples that in the towns have more than one child erm and this is leading to a dramatic reduction in crude birthrate .
26 At present this is confined to a brief outline of the defendant 's breaches and the penalty imposed , but a working party will consider the possibility of issuing a full judgment outlining the facts alleged by the Investigation Committee , the member 's defence , the Disciplinary Committee 's findings and any mitigating circumstances ( see also p 25 ) .
27 This is confined to the free margin of the front row of basal epidermal cells , and appears to be continuous from cell to cell ( presumably through adherens junctions ) .
28 Consequently there has been a marked fall in recruitment since 1964 — although it is still not enough on its own to create a shortage of labour — and this is contributing to the ageing labour force .
29 This is linked to a complete file of the bibliographic collection held in inverted form .
30 This is linked to an existing experimental programme including human studies ,
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