Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , attention will focus on island communities in the developing world where land-use has created specific environmental problems that are frequently related to watershed abuse . |
| 2 | Similarly there are individuals that go through the court system and are punished , that are perhaps sent to prison , and come out of prison saying it 's not going to make any difference , I now know how to break into every type of car , every type of building . |
| 3 | SuperCalc 5.5 has extended the use of fonts in printing spreadsheet ranges so that the facilities that were previously limited to laser printers now apply to most dot matrix printers . |
| 4 | The sky was a clear , pale dome , covered in the east by a flock of tiny clouds that were already turned to pink by the sun that was still concealed , that had not yet risen . |
| 5 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 6 | Its purpose was to provide art historians with examples of antique sculpture that were definitely known to Renaissance artists such as Donatello and Ghiberti and influenced their work . |
| 7 | ENGLAND tomorrow will unveil a lavish £4.5 million plan to stage cricket 's sixth World Cup that is already doomed to failure . |
| 8 | Difficulties of setting up a system of rewards that is directly linked to performance appraisal and the achievement of objectives . |
| 9 | Because philosophy and science now occupy the secondary position that was previously ascribed to literature , it makes no sense to speak of literature as a special kind of language . |
| 10 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 11 | Stepwise regression analysis with stratification by age confirmed that colonic disease was the only variable that was significantly related to survival ( log likelihood=-132.894 , χ 2 4 <0.05 ) . |
| 12 | They are unpopular since they are regressive and are poorly related to income . |
| 13 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 14 | I could be trapped here at the top of the tower and be either forced to jump or killed like a rat trapped in a barn . |
| 15 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 16 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 17 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 18 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 19 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 20 | Infrequently , a refractory pouchitis ( RP ) presents with certain clinical , endoscopic , and pathological features resembling Crohn 's disease and is often ascribed to misdiagnosis of the initial colitis . |
| 21 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 22 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 23 | Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos . |
| 24 | He began banging his head against the wall , vomiting up his food , lost a great deal of weight and was eventually taken to hospital . |
| 25 | She had an unhappy childhood in Weston-super-Mare , and was briefly sent to boarding-school in Devizes at the age of eight . |
| 26 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 27 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 28 | Hammond changed his status from professional to amateur partly through taking a directorship of a tyre company in 1938 — he liked to drive fast cars — and was then selected to captain England . |
| 29 | He did his basic training at Warrington and was then posted to officer training school at Grantham . |
| 30 | JUDITH CANNON has recently been promoted to operations director public sector , a new senior position that reflects the continued growth of our public sector division , which caters for schools and hospitals across the UK , Judith joined CCG in 1984 as senior area manager for the Earling schools and social service contract , and was then promoted to business development manager and latterly general manager . |