Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programs have been successfully transferred to a wide range of computers including microcomputers . |
| 2 | The results in Table 2 show that phosphorylcholine treatments have been successfully applied to a wide range of biomaterials . |
| 3 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 4 | But you are so used to an unquestioned independence that you forget how many people do n't have it , people who , in human terms , Christian terms even , have just as much right to it as you do . |
| 5 | The company 's hotels are run as autonomous units , and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent . |
| 6 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 7 | When cleaned , non-ferrous metals are best brought to a bright finish before priming with zinc chromate or zinc phosphate . |
| 8 | No , I am not going to a fancy dress party , but to work . |
| 9 | So far , the card capacity has been largely limited to a mere 64 kilobytes and supply to third parties is controlled by Sharp which price them at up to £50 each , limiting the potential margin for would-be card publishers . |
| 10 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 11 | By antecedent , in terms of the example , I of course mean only R and C. In virtue of this fact of generality with respect to independent conditionals they are not tied to a particular situation , as are dependent conditionals . |
| 12 | These are not strictly part of our ‘ urban ’ concerns , but they do show how Harré 's and Goffman 's ideas , as well as Giddens 's concept of ‘ locale ’ are not limited to a particular scale . |
| 13 | ABOVE Ventilation is vital for dogs travelling in cars , but do make sure that they are not exposed to a powerful draught which could affect their eyes . |
| 14 | They are not linked to a particular course or to a particular method of study . |
| 15 | when we do use our staff , we have the advantage that they are not restricted to a fixed location , but are mobile within districts and organise themselves with minimum supervision and are already capable of using high productivity equipment . |
| 16 | For such a task crude approaches to semantic processing are preferable to the detailed analyses found in understanding systems since they are computationally tractable , robust and are not restricted to a small language domain . |
| 17 | We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon . |
| 18 | Some qualified teachers are not attached to a particular school but visit and work in several schools in an area , for instance teaching music or languages , or working with partially hearing children . |
| 19 | They 're not tied to a nine-to-five , that 's for sure . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 21 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 22 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 23 | Challis draws a distinction between geographical decentralisation and resource decentralisation where ‘ decisions over the precise allocation of resources are formally pushed to a lower level than is usual , at times to the individual field worker , to ensure more appropriate allocation of resources ’ . |
| 24 | Proceeds of the claim , less the legal costs , have been directly credited to a special reserve . |
| 25 | But they are usually tied to a particular building society or insurance company and so will only arrange loans with them . |
| 26 | Such networks are inevitably built up on a regional basis because the finds are usually confined to a limited geographical region . |
| 27 | Phillipson suggests that the elderly have been deliberately relegated to a reserve army of labour , and Walker concurs : ‘ Retirement is a largely twentieth century phenomenon , which has been managed to remove from employment older workers in order to reconstitute and re-skill the labour force . ’ |
| 28 | The same may be true of a book which has been deliberately produced to a high standard of physical appearance . |
| 29 | This last can be prevented by modern orthopaedic treatment , but , unfortunately , many patients are still referred to a suitable orthopaedic clinic too late . |
| 30 | Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it . |