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 | In general , silvicultural techniques include the regulation of regeneration , species composition and growth and may be designed to enhance aspects of forestry , such as improvement of habitats for wildlife , that are not related to timber production . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ENGLAND tomorrow will unveil a lavish £4.5 million plan to stage cricket 's sixth World Cup that is already doomed to failure . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , R&D that is not related to defence has declined by about 10 per cent since Reagan took office , once inflation is accounted for . |
| 10 | The natural meaning of rule 1(4) seems to us to give the expression ‘ costs ’ a meaning that is not confined to litigation costs . |
| 11 | Difficulties of setting up a system of rewards that is directly linked to performance appraisal and the achievement of objectives . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The benefits of massage are endless and are n't confined to body alone . |
| 16 | They are unpopular since they are regressive and are poorly related to income . |
| 17 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 18 | They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 22 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 23 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 24 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 25 | Moreover , the test applies to all unusual or unreasonable terms , and is not limited to exclusion and limitation clauses . |
| 26 | If the selling shareholder is a corporation , the Revenue takes the view that , because the distribution element is franked investment income and is not charged to corporation tax in the company 's hands , the full amount of the sale price should be brought into account in the company 's computation of chargeable gains . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |