Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether these values represent the upper extreme of normality or are related to the underlying colonic disease , long term medication , or other factors is not clear . |
| 2 | The enclaves of very large dogwhelks around Porlock Weir in the Severn Estuary , between Swanage and Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast and at some sites in the west of Scotland are sublittoral or are confined to the extreme lower shore . |
| 3 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 4 | Terms that are related to the preferred heading are shown . |
| 5 | None of this excuses their behaviour , of course , but this is an unusually human account of an all-too-human encounter in the streets which reminds us of a certain constancy of human motive , and of conflicts built around the human meanings that are attached to the social realities of class , physical appearance and territory . |
| 6 | The ant parts used to paint women 's faces in the maize festival are from the ants that are attracted to the extrafloral nectaries of cassava and keep insects off the beans that are trained up the more robust maize . |
| 7 | Hence a conjugate of ( F 2 2 ) z , such as P(FR1)JP-I is also a pair of exchanges and it acts only on the pieces that are brought to the four working locations by P . |
| 8 | Different solutions can be adopted in different places , solutions that are suited to the different needs of different people . |
| 9 | There were various features of the role of the military in Soviet politics that are striking to the Western observer . |
| 10 | Now these represent two lectures on group processes that 're given to the first year social psychology students at Aston . |
| 11 | They , too , formed a housing co-op rather than be dispersed to the outer edges in identikit " corpy " houses . |
| 12 | Built as a Mk II by Blackburn , HS554 was one of 99 ( plus an additional six Mk IIIs ) that were assigned to the Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN ) . |
| 13 | : Mb This scheme has been designed to overcome many of the objections that were raised to the earlier scheme , particularly in relation to the car parking that is now in excess of that which was originally required . |
| 14 | This is mirrored in the huge crowds that were drawn to the special exhibition of books staged by the Educational Publishers Council in London this autumn . |
| 15 | Schaffer paused to look at some of the bright crayon drawings that were pinned to the foremost partition . |
| 16 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 17 | What was taking place was much more complex , and the working-class patterns of family and sexual life that were brought to the twentieth century were as much the product of working-class adaptation to rapid change in the context of a ruling set of ideas as a successful colonisation . |
| 18 | For the first time since independence the opposition alliance included Malays , whose dominance was enshrined in the constitution , rather than being restricted to the Chinese and Indian communities . |
| 19 | The lower pool holds the main body of water that is pumped to the top one to return via the fall . |
| 20 | As stated in the AEA Times bulletin our clear preference is for our commercial business to be retained essentially in a single company that is transferred to the private sector either by a public flotation or private placement . |
| 21 | A depth-first traversal goes from a node to one of the nodes directly connected to it and then immediately continues by visiting a node that is connected to the last visited node ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Rugby is the game that is suited to The Famous Grouse . |
| 23 | One of the advantages of using a person-in-role over inanimate objects is that the ‘ passive ’ stage of watching and listening can gradually change to a more active involvement , as and when the class seems ready , but more important of course is the extra dynamic edge that is brought to the whole occasion by having present someone real and breathing and tangible instead of just a photograph . |
| 24 | Not only are many of the possible haplotypes confined to one race or area , but there is even a haplotype that is confined to the former ‘ Silk Road ’ between China and Europe . |
| 25 | If uniqueness is one quality that is attributed to the English village , then timelessness is the other , but again it is easy to confer an entirely spurious antiquity on village life , and even upon the physical structure of villages , which can be misleading . |
| 26 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 27 | Holly saw the bright red band that was sewn to the upper arm of his tunic , the red diamond on his chest . |
| 28 | This was the one that was handed to the impatient colonel . |
| 29 | Details of our reductions for children are given in the price panels , and are applied to the basic holiday price shown , before adding any room , meal or flight supplements . |
| 30 | Accommodation is in comfortably furnished thatched chalets , all facing the sea and beach , and are joined to the central restaurant and bar by a covered walkway . |