Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 2 | Attention would only be conditionally offered to Ollie if Stan was in the room , and if the family were enjoying a quiet cuddle with Stan , he would have to be rejected in favour of Ollie if he appeared . |
| 3 | Court of Justice rulings have stressed the general principle that goods which have been legally marketed in one member state should normally be freely admitted to others . |
| 4 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
| 5 | We therefore have to face the fact that there are structural differences between rat and monkey cortex that can not be simply attributed to differences in size . |
| 6 | Next year he will begin to bring it ‘ up to date ’ and emphasise that honours should not be automatically awarded to people who have kept their noses clean in certain jobs , but that they must be earned . |
| 7 | I hope he will not be permanently lost to tennis . |
| 8 | Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record . |
| 9 | Slightly enlarged glands are very common and can not be definitely linked to HIV infection . |
| 10 | A region is mediated in our everyday life in the form of various symbols , which are the same for all individuals in the one region , though the meanings associated with them will always be construed personally on the basis of the individual 's life situation and biography … though the regions of a society obtain their ultimate personal meanings in the practices of everyday life , these meanings can not be totally reduced to experiences that constitute everyday life , since a region bears with it institutionally mediated practices and relations , the most significant being the history of the region as a part of the spatial structure of the society in question . |
| 11 | The factory will already be well known to Kirstie , as her father , John Armstrong , has worked at Stoddard for many years , and her sister Karen , works in Management Accounts . |
| 12 | The sort of task illustrated above is closely related to estimation tasks . |
| 13 | I have always been exclusively attracted to girls and wimmin in any sexual or deep emotional way ; it has always been a part of me as grey eyes or dark hair . |
| 14 | Seventy years on Michael Carson , writing of his own homosexual desire for the racially other , expresses a similar sentiment though now with a revealing , probably necessary , and certainly crucial distinction : ‘ I have always been sexually attracted to foreigners . |
| 15 | After a while she shrugged her shoulders and said , ‘ You know , I do n't think I ever was really committed to Christianity . ’ |
| 16 | However , rather more was usually allocated to capital projects : at least 60 per cent expenditure was so defined , with almost 90 per cent going to capital schemes in some councils . |
| 17 | Deciduous trees appear less affected than conifers , partly because they offer a smaller area of foliage , and partly because they shed their leaves each autumn and hence are not exposed to air pollution for such a long time as conifers . |
| 18 | Recently inductively coupled plasma spectrometry ( see glossary ) , which is related to atomic absorption , has also been successfully applied to flint analysis . |
| 19 | Identifiable links between the Mycenaeans and Egyptians have until now been largely confined to deposits of Mycenaean pottery in Egypt , and sporadic finds of Egyptians objects in Greece.If this papyrus does show Mycenaean warriors fighting alongside Egyptians , perhaps as mercenaries , it provides the first evidence for more direct interaction between these two major Bronze Age cultures of the Mediterranean . |
| 20 | These have often been directly linked to LMS work , but in some schools new posts have been created to assist teachers in preparing and typing teaching materials and reports . |
| 21 | That Burgess ' model can not really be accurately applied to Nottingham because it is too rigid in its form . |
| 22 | Storage Technology Corp 's automated tape libraries can now be directly attached to Tandem Computers Inc NonStop Cyclone and CLX 800 boxes . |
| 23 | Two of ACE 's founding fathers , Compaq Computer Corp and Santa Cruz Operation Inc are now being widely tipped to stymie their respective MIPS-based ACE development work ; not just because MIPS is about to lose its independence to Silicon Graphics Inc , but also because the Intel Corp 80586 ( P5 ) bandwagon is now gathering a full head of steam , whilst DEC is also doing its damnedest to undermine the whole MIPS effort with its Alpha RISC ( see below ) . |
| 24 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 25 | Some of the work carried out is directly related to housing and the appearance of the physical environment , and therefore very much in the traditional planning scope . |
| 26 | Moreover , its big-name client base so far is largely confined to Sainsbury , Gateway and the main petrol retailers . |
| 27 | Possibly , as someone new to The Smiths and their legacy , I simply am not used to Moz 's sense of humour but , really , that joke 's not funny anymore . |
| 28 | The mathematical singularity arises because the set of coordinates imposed everywhere is best suited to regions of small curvature . |
| 29 | But no-one was very sure that any specific biochemical processes , apart from the rather general one of protein synthesis , had yet been unequivocally linked to memory formation , and the community had become distinctly cautious about evaluating any new claims . |
| 30 | More recently the rapid increase in the wealth of the Japanese , their greater consumption of diamonds and the fact that they have never been so attached to gold as the peoples of the west have led to a sharp increase in their use of platinum for jewellery . |