Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harden 's data indicate an annual range of soil losses varying from , with the highest rates of erosion occurring where soils are exposed to drought , overgrazing or tillage . |
| 2 | However , we are aware of the concerns that have been expressed about the system as compared with the arrangements in England and Wales , where appeals are made to valuation and community charge tribunals . |
| 3 | It is a very neat metaphor so , for example , foremen or supervisors are likened to Warrant Officers who are ‘ worthy gentlemen of extreme power ’ , as one manager described them . |
| 4 | Although he is a thoughtful person , who loves to put his ideas down on paper in the form of articles for such august publications as the Harvard Business Review , he suspects that labels are attached to management practices in hindsight rather than as objectives executives set out to master . |
| 5 | The most important feature is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of the cow , with subsequent milk-borne transmission ensuring that calves are exposed to infection from the first day of life . |
| 6 | ‘ If people wish to mark their respect , the family would ask that donations be made to Alder Hey Children 's Hospital in Liverpool through the funeral director , L J Clegg of 98 Liverpool Road South , Maghull , Merseyside . ’ |
| 7 | We know that families are tied to school holiday dates , and for that reason we offer our highest discounts during these periods ; this is the best time to go combined with the best value . |
| 8 | As a result we had a demoralised and demotivated workforce and needed a completely fresh start — a sign that things were going to work differently . |
| 9 | In determining whether such a seizure was reasonable the court had to balance , on the one hand , the freedom of the individual and his rights which protected against undue invasion of his property , and on the other hand , the interests of society in ensuring that valuable evidence was not destroyed and that wrongdoers were brought to justice . |
| 10 | While FoE is not arguing that children are exposed to radiation levels above legal limits , it is criticizing BNFL for not doing enough to fulfil its legal obligation to reduce the radioactivity of its discharges to the minimum . |
| 11 | In the text James Mill writes that it is ‘ obvious , and certain , that men were led to class solely for the purpose of economizing in the use of names ’ : |
| 12 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 13 | He had fasted and prayed , desperately seeking the answer to why men such as Implexion succeeded in life , at the expense of others , and noble men such as Dauntless 's peers and superiors were doomed to failure . |
| 14 | This Act was repealed by the new Labour government in 1974 and in legislation in 1975 and 1976 , further rights and immunities were granted to trade unions . |
| 15 | Political activity was banned and Koreans were subordinated to Japanese at all levels of administrative activity . |
| 16 | Investigators and subjects were blinded to insulin type and the insulins were given in random order . |
| 17 | Freehold and long leasehold land and buildings are revalued to market value at intervals not exceeding five years . |
| 18 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 19 | Some 22 demonstrators and activists were brought to trial at the Beijing municipal intermediate court on Jan. 5 and 26 , in connection with the pro-democracy demonstrations which ended in the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square on June 4 , 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 20 | Oxides of nitrogen are reduced to harmless nitrogen , and the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water , as before . |
| 21 | Burning oil which had leaked from the tanker , the Agip Abruzzo , engulfed the ferry and all except one of the ferry 's crew and passengers were burned to death or drowned . |
| 22 | The general principle of the Government 's policy is clear : we will ensure that people who commit fraud and swindles are brought to book through the courts . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of fine forensic work will not be revealed until charges are brought to court , but the investigators have a pretty good idea about the sources of the case . |
| 24 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 25 | Born in Canada , but now spending most of his time charging around the world getting into trouble , Watson is a young radical determined to stop animals such as whales and seals being hunted to extinction . |
| 26 | Seeing that cash flow is the life blood of any business , it follows that if fees are related to job progress there must be a direct relationship between performance and cash flow . |
| 27 | A take note was issued allowing exploration to start at once and men were set to work in December of 1823 . |
| 28 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 29 | The troubled relations between the Serbian and the majority ethnic Albanian populations in the autonomous province of Kosovo suffered a further setback in late March , after an incident on March 22 in which some 400 students and schoolchildren were rushed to hospital with symptoms thought to be consistent with poisoning . |
| 30 | Since children were randomised to treatment group by cluster in the Survival Study , the results , both of the baseline comparisons and the mortality rates , were analysed by a comparison of the mean of the results in each of the 92 vitamin A clusters against the mean of the results in each of the 93 placebo clusters . |