Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology .
2 Whilst it is not suggested that such behaviour is common , the temptation to copy , or at least to fail to acknowledge the other thesis as a source , is made stronger by the knowledge that such unscrupulous acts are very difficult to detect , because the original works , if unpublished , may only be known to the researchers and to their supervisors .
3 You will see from the notes and form that applications should only be directed to the Sports Council in respect of post holders of international bodies , ie those who have been elected in their own right and not those who are simply fulfilling a representative function .
4 The need for such periodic major reports can perhaps be attributed to the structures of authority and seniority in the professions , which seem to necessitate periodic revolution rather than the research-led rolling evolution which is more typical of ‘ academic ’ subjects .
5 ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets .
6 David Eccles , the Minister of Education since 1959 , registered a growing public concern with the content of education — what was to be taught , and how , and to whom — and a spreading belief that such questions could no longer be left to the professionals .
7 By virtue both of the imperatives already identified , and their financial overtones , every decision taken will have budget implications , the onus of which can no longer be passed to the policies of the LEA , safely remote from the staff-room .
8 The latter , though , might just be assimilated to the factors that the subject has to take into account under operant conditioning .
9 But it must n't just be left to the activists to recruit .
10 The economy of phrase and the abrupt transitions of a Horatian ode can generally be traced to the demands of an intricate governing metre .
11 If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner .
12 If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner .
13 If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner .
14 If the caravan is the subject of a hire purchase agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the caravan will normally be made to the caravans legal owner .
15 They would not be tied to the goods of donor countries , and all funds from national sources should be in the form of grants ( already the case for a majority of donors ) .
16 John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers ' Association , has warned that any remand prisoner suffering a condition that requires constant nursing care , or carrying the HIV virus , would not be sent to the Wolds because of the possible cost .
17 ‘ Realism maintains that universal moral principles can not be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation . ’
18 This criticism can not be applied to the results for 1984–90 .
19 The statute can not be referring to the interests of all those individuals because they may differ and the interests of the majority are not necessarily the same as the interests of the State .
20 Writing has the effect of distancing the speaker from the hearer ; what is said need not be suited to the requirements of the listener because the listener is absent .
21 Bjornsson went on to study the newspapers of 11 countries , and found substantial differences , which he argued could not be attributed to the idiosyncrasies of the languages .
22 Scots , in particular , should rejoice over the disbandment of a regiment , praying that at last their sons ' names need not be added to the memorials which stand in every town , village and glen across the country as mute testament to the suffering and sorrow of the past .
23 It means , in particular , that the temporality of science can not be accommodated to the rhythms of traditional historiography , which has not , however , prevented positivistic historians of science from writing its history solely in terms of precursors and anachronistic anticipations of modern ideas in early thinkers , as if science unrolled smoothly and inevitably from year to year .
24 The elevation of Clark and Mazankowski — both of whom were from Alberta — was seen as an attempt by Mulroney to reassure the country 's western provinces that their interests would not be sacrificed to the demands of Quebec .
25 A lease for a term of less than seven years need not be produced to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue ( Finance Act 1931 , s28 ) .
26 The punishment of the enemies and the traitors of the working class , it was alleged , was the sole right of the working class and could not be left to the processes of natural degeneration .
27 This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only .
28 This information is mostly for the GM , but some of it can easily be fed to the PCs before an adventure .
29 Any decision of the Panel executive will usually be given to the parties over the telephone .
30 Someone has to do it , and given the sexual division of labour which itself is reinforced by urban planning ( Harman , 1983 ) , it will usually be left to the women .
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