Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [be] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 20.1 The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement . |
| 2 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |
| 3 | The increased number of urinary tract infections seen in uncircumcised young children may be due to ‘ hospital strains ’ of uropathogenic P-fimbriated Escherichia coli acquired in the unnatural environment of modern obstetric units rather than being directly related to the foreskin . |
| 4 | The wavenumbers of the unstable modes are determined by the considerations leading to ( 23.20 ) rather than being directly related to the layer depth ( as they are in ordinary Bénard convection , Section 22.2 ) . |
| 5 | Lyons , in fact , concedes ( b ) : ‘ I am only too prepared to accept that in other traditions scribal records either are not or are not seen to be intrinsically more reliable than memory and oral transmission . ’ |
| 6 | Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity . |
| 7 | He underwent a manipulative operation on his neck yesterday and is not expected to be fit . |
| 8 | Labour councils tended to spend relatively more and be more committed to spending on social services than Conservative councils which spent a higher proportion of their budgets on education , but the bulk of spending was similar and handled through nationally organized professionals rather than locally based politicians . |
| 9 | ‘ And so should yourself be , too , Owen O'Clery , ’ he had muttered as he laid his fiddle-case on the opposite seat , curled himself up and was immediately transported to his own dreamland . |
| 10 | Several species of Australian amphibian , amongst them some of the most beautiful and interesting in the world , have died out and are now thought to be extinct . |
| 11 | Beaverbrook , indeed , who knew Law very well but was also addicted to dramatic interpretations , believed that the collapse of Law 's health stemmed partly from this destruction of his position as undisputed captain , maybe of ‘ the second eleven ’ in Churchill 's phrase , but at least of a team of like-minded , straightforward and loyal men . |
| 12 | Structured English is a precise way of specifying a function and is readily understandable by the systems designer as well as being readily converted to a program . |
| 13 | A collegial model looked both more scriptural and more ecumenical — as well as being more suited to a post-monarchical world — even if bolstered up by a not-too-sound and rather fundamentalist interpretation of a selection of New Testament and patristic texts . |
| 14 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 15 | Charles I 's commission on exacted fees and innovated offices was investigating Mynne and the Hanaper ( in effect the treasury of the Great Seal ) in 1630 ; he got off then but was finally brought to trial for extortion in 1634 . |