Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Sometimes this is related to the dietary preferences and habits of other family members ( Hertzler 1983b ) .
5 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 .
6 This is charged to the opposite potential to that held by the droplet and attracts the ink into the paper .
7 This is limited to the lefthand end of the utterance when a left-to-right strategy is used .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 I would be grateful if you would ensure that this is passed to the appropriate committee .
11 I should be grateful if you would ensure that this is passed to the appropriate committee for consideration .
12 This is sung to the old folk song of ‘ Tavern in the Town ’ .
13 This fragmentation will be further increased if and when a proposed new national commercial Channel 5 is added to the available terrestrial TV services : this is due to happen by 1995 , but there are doubts about its viability , and the precise format will remain unclear until a contractor is appointed , after a non-decision by the government in late 1992 .
14 Plainly , the function of law enforcement under the Shops Act 1950 is entrusted to the local authority of each district .
15 The first is to contribute to the theoretical analysis of work and employment and to discussions of labour markets , and to advance our understanding of the ways in which gender operates at work .
16 If pin 9 is left open circuit , the display will be in dot mode , and if pin 9 is connected to the positive rail a bar mode display is produced .
17 Values , he argues , select problems and attach significance to items of knowledge and so constitute a basis of meaning that is tied to the social function of knowledge .
18 I , I would like to see erm , I do n't know whether this is done , but erm , when the official photographs are taken , they 're done by erm , newspaper area , so that you get of the Lord Lieutenant , the Chief Officer , and the , the man from that area , and that is sent to the local paper , whether , ah
19 Upholding the ‘ four fundamental principles ’ of Chinese communism , that is adhering to the socialist road , the dictatorship of the proletariat , the leadership of the Communist Party and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought , had to take precedence over the ‘ four great freedoms ’ of being able to speak out freely , air views fully , hold debates and write large character posters .
20 Such stresses are therefore called Piola-Kirchhoff stresses and , denoting such a stress by the symbols ( the upper case K reminds us that the normal is referred to the undeformed state , while the lower case j refers to the deformed state ) we have the relation where J is the Jacobian , defined earlier ( p. 15 ) , J = det .
21 Any applied stress is now shared between the elements and each is subjected to the same deformation .
22 Infrastructure , that 's related to the actual infrastructure of the er microelectronics , electronics and computer software market within the U K as as a rule .
23 Firstly , there is the observation noted above that the length scale l 2 in Fig. 21.21 is related to the viscous sub-layer thickness ( i.e. is proportional to and much smaller than y in the region concerned ) .
24 But seems to me that 's silly is that we did n't keep with that correspondence a copy of the enquiry form , which , the original is gone to the central record .
  Next page