Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads naturally to another key point : whatever social or political meanings are attached to sport by different groups , participation remains intensely sociable and largely organized around the institution of the individual ‘ club ’ — a neglected social creation of the Victorians . |
| 2 | At that time few attempts were made to measure the effectiveness of such activity , and advertising agencies tended to branch out into sales promotions with the aim of offering an all-inclusive package to their clients in an attempt to combat competition from the emerging sales promotion agencies . |
| 3 | Income and expenditure in foreign currencies are converted to sterling at rates approximating to those ruling at the date of each transaction ; assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates ruling at the balance sheet date . |
| 4 | Dialogue is deftly used in Sercambi 's novella , as sometimes in the French fabliaux , but , as has been noted , none of the French fabliaux are suited to performance in the way that Dame Sirith is , and as an inferrable source for the Shipman 's Tale may have been . |
| 5 | Foreign mercenaries were hired to officer new-formation regiments into which an increasing number of peasant recruits were drafted . |
| 6 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 7 | But if the interpretation of poetic texts is condemned to indeterminacy , then how can we have an explanatory account of the role of figurative language in communication ? |
| 8 | Public relations is related to advertising in that both are about persuasion through communication . |
| 9 | Some printers are attracted to dry-ice blasting because the cleaning processes they use at the moment require volatile chlorinated solvents and dangerous methyl ethyl ketones ( MEKs ) — not very environmentally friendly . |
| 10 | This means that when the raw materials are reduced to fibre ready for re-spinning , they already have colour in them . |
| 11 | One is the fact that the Building Societies Act of 1986 requires that at least 90% of the society 's commercial assets be devoted to mortgage lending . |
| 12 | The value-shifting provisions described in 5.2.6 below can be of particular relevance in this context , in determining the price ( and therefore the amount of the inter-company loan account ) at which the targeted assets are transferred to Target . |
| 13 | The classic French dishes were cooked to perfection by the Arab cook and served gracefully by Arab boys in white uniforms , the eldest of whom seemed about fifteen years old . |
| 14 | Five people were rescued from their burning flat and 30 others were led to safety after thick smoke spread through the building . |
| 15 | Some campaigns are doomed to failure from the start and that one will certainly be a waste of time . |
| 16 | The uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 17 | As we go to press , the uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 18 | Seated in your medieval scholar 's desk , centuries of fascinating personalities and great historical events are brought to life before your eyes as the Oxford Story unfolds before you . |
| 19 | ‘ The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season ’ |
| 20 | The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season . |
| 21 | After-images of new and modified blocks are written to twin log files . |
| 22 | Once the route was resolved the Club found itself considering yet again , the prospects of building a new clubhouse at the top of Chalk Hill and serious attempts were made to interest Brewery companies into buying the existing clubhouse for a public house . |
| 23 | Its present role is to examine course structure and ensure that each approved B Ed course contains defined basic elements — for example , that 100 hours be devoted to mathematics , a further 100 to English language and defined hours for the student 's own subject specialism . |
| 24 | Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate ; Northern Electric and carbody manufacturer Vickers Pressings have taken on people recently . |
| 25 | When the actual counts were converted to transition probabilities the results shown in Table 6.4 were obtained . |
| 26 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 27 | It will also explore the extent to which such changes are related to population and employment change and improvements to transport infrastructure . |
| 28 | Later , problems of the Arretine wares were brought to light when factories producing these wares well into the Claudian period were found in Central Gaul , and the terms ‘ provincial Arretine ’ or ‘ proto-South Gaulish ’ were invented . |
| 29 | The proposal that drama somehow became more sophisticated with an interest in psychology adopted by Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists is to come to Renaissance drama with a presumption that literary sophistication is the representation of psychological interiority , a view largely derived from the centrality of late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels within a reading experience . |
| 30 | Over 100 donors are matched to leukaemia sufferers each year — could one of these be you ? |