Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( Grateful thanks are expressed to Dr Julia Thomason of Appalachian State University , North Carolina , for this example , taken from her own creative work on critical thinking skills . |
| 4 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : Grateful thanks are extended to Robertson Research International Limited for permission to use their Southern North Sea reflectance data in this study . |
| 5 | The stolen cars were taken to garages in the Bronx , where their identification numbers were changed . |
| 6 | In Peru , where uncuttable contacts were made to plants of Triplaris americana ( Polygonaceae ) , Crematogaster ants invaded more frequently than otherwise , even carrying off larvae and usurping the resident Pseudomyrex dendroicus . |
| 7 | Further introductions were made to Mr R K A Wakeling , Group Chief Executive and to Executive Directors Mr I G Thorburn and Mr J N Sheldrick , followed by CSD Directors Mr P G Emmel , Mr R A Searles and Mr J M Shears . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Pensioners and law abiding citizens are being made to pay for council work that never gets done , poor street lighting that never gets fixed , empty houses being left to vandals , cemeteries neglected . |
| 10 | Originally , all first-born sons were dedicated to God , but monetary gifts later took their place , which were given to the priests . |
| 11 | As the Minister who represents the area containing Wandsworth prison , may I suggest to the Minister that if the exchanges of the past few minutes were conveyed to BBC television 's ’ Yes Minister ’ they might indeed help to revive the Government 's fortunes ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Old cars were sold to clubs at inflated prices and on one occasion a player sold his dog to a director . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In rather the same way the practice of giving hostages for the due execution of a treaty , quite common in the distrustful atmosphere of the sixteenth century , was last seen in operation in 1748 , when two British peers were sent to Paris as guarantees of the restitution by Britain of the conquests she had made in north America at the expense of France . |
| 16 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 17 | Foreign mercenaries were hired to officer new-formation regiments into which an increasing number of peasant recruits were drafted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | About 30 ambassadors were recalled to Moscow to explain their conduct in the coup . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 22 | Last month extra German troops were sent to Iran to help cope with the refugees flooding in from Iraq . |
| 23 | He came to Bedale and after 12 years was transferred to Ripon . |
| 24 | Head dog warden Helen Wignall said : ‘ Last year alone , approximately 85,000 dogs were taken to RSPCA shelters all over Britain , including strays , unwanted , and abandoned dogs and puppies . |
| 25 | A gimmick I employ with this pulse system is that train-detector circuits are referenced to 13V so that l.e.d.s on the track-diagram show an 18Hz flicker for moving trains and are steady for stationary ones . |
| 26 | Could a few allusions be made to Thackeray ? he wondered wistfully ; on the whole , he thought not . |
| 27 | We ate New Zealand lamb and dairy products ; British factories used Malaysian rubber and tin ; British machines were sold to India ; and British capital was invested heavily in South Africa . |
| 28 | Some centres are connected to prisons , others are separate ; some are run by volunteers , others are sponsored by the Government . ’ |
| 29 | Public relations is related to advertising in that both are about persuasion through communication . |
| 30 | 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 . |