Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet education has never guaranteed employment , and whether it has or has not been expected to , we must also consider the other purposes it may serve . |
| 2 | It is , in fact , so easy a target that scholars reacting against it have constructed a revised view that has also been driven to excess . |
| 3 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 4 | In a document that has conveniently been leaked to me , the hon. Gentleman , without any hesitation , contradicts the words of the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) in ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 5 | Coloured , bleached , stonewashed , there 's little that has n't been done to denim . |
| 6 | In algebra they developed a concept of polynomials and pioneered an algebraic geometry that has traditionally been ascribed to Descartes . |
| 7 | Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real . |
| 8 | His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two . |
| 9 | Certainly the reliance now of necessity of such systems demands , and fortunately the nature of these types of premises is likely to permit , a much closer relationship between the ‘ business end ’ of the system and the valves which control it than has previously been considered to be necessary . |
| 10 | Parliament has conferred more freedom from restraint on trade unions than has ever been known to the law before . |
| 11 | It meant that that summer , despite the pressure of finals , I was able to enjoy human company and gain succour from it , in a way that had previously been denied to me . |
| 12 | Lowland fear of the Highland Scots was another powerful motive for Union , but the effect was to give eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotsmen opportunities in the British Empire that had previously been closed to them . |
| 13 | But it seems more likely that ninth-century landlords , still using ( why not ? ) the old terminology of the Roman fiscal system , were exacting on their own account dues that had once been owed to the state , rather than acting as tax-collectors on the state 's behalf . |
| 14 | It operated also with regard to lands and rights that had once been given to God or the saints : the gift could never be withdrawn or diminished without sin . |
| 15 | Standing in a corner of the half-landing was an old mirror with chipped edges : a tall narrow sheet of glass that had once been pinned to the inside of a wardrobe door . |
| 16 | The reality represented the truth about movie-making itself , and a final shattering of all the illusions that had ever been presented to a cinema audience , for , seemingly , he had not realized that he had built into his masterpiece a piece of self-destruct mechanism . |
| 17 | It was the best excuse that had ever been offered to a radio reporter in search of an interview ; ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I ca n't speak to you . |
| 18 | The crypt that remains here is thought to be the best-preserved Romanesque crypt in Lombardy and contains remains from paleo-Christian times through to the Renaissance . |
| 19 | The purpose of group meetings is not just the demonstration of those aspects of ‘ negotiation ’ and ‘ making the private public ’ that have already been referred to . |
| 20 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 21 | For each year of the forecast the previous year 's level of service is taken as the base ; that is then modified by additions representing new policies and subtractions reflecting the closure of activities that have already been agreed to during the year . |
| 22 | That may seem to trivialise the intentions of the working party which is now sifting through the comments that have already been submitted to it ( and , although the deadline passed on 30 April , it is still interested in receiving any others sent in as soon as possible ) . |
| 23 | For a YAC probe y , and any other probe p , that have both been hybridised to the cosmid library , define the association ( y , p ) of y and p as the proportion of cosmid clones positive for probe p which are also positive for probe y . |
| 24 | Tumour ‘ promoters ’ are substances such as the phorbolesters that are n't carcinogenic by themselves but encourage the growth of malignant tumours in cells that have previously been exposed to a low dose of a true carcinogen ( known as an initiator ) . |
| 25 | Once organized into facets , the single concepts that have previously been referred to as isolates become known as ‘ foci ’ ( singular focus ) . |
| 26 | In the latter case it remains to be determined whether any of the minor polypeptides detected in our assay are related to other CRE-binding activities ( ECRE-1 , ECRE-3 and ECRE-4 ) that have previously been shown to be down regulated during differentiation of F9 cells ( 48 ) . |
| 27 | Editor , — Albert Figueras and colleagues describe 17 cases of acute motor polyneuropathy presumably associated with the administration of gangliosides that have previously been reported to the Spanish drug surveillance system . |
| 28 | True , it 's a waste of natural resources , but a single issue of some daily newspapers is a far greater ecological sacrifice than all the guitars that have ever been put to death on stage . |
| 29 | Strangely enough , they consistently demand outrageous prices for things like basket-case Eko Rangers and Westone basses that have obviously been used to fell fair-sized pine trees , but they also have the laughably ignorant if highly convenient habit of pricing guitar amplifiers on the simple basis of how large they are . |
| 30 | Our objective is to expose those treatments in orthodox medicine that have never been subjected to rigorous testing to prove their safety and effectiveness . |