Example sentences of "[is] [verb] to the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prentice Hall is sticking to the tried and tested title by publishing Developing Business Contacts , as well as a welcome new series of ESP reading texts under the banner of Professional Reading Skills . |
| 2 | The auricular surface ( articulating with the ilium ) is limited to the first and second sacral vertebrae in the female , but in the male it often extends to the middle of the third vertebra . |
| 3 | They do n't know the language so their choice of jobs is limited to the worst and least skilled ; they do n't know their rights so they can be intimidated , they do n't have much information about other , better off workers so they can be paid poverty-line wages . |
| 4 | Protection is given to the malicious and the reckless as the price of protecting from the threat of vexatious litigation all who are under a powerful duty to state facts and opinions frankly . |
| 5 | Close attention is given to the safe and hygienic handling of chemicals , and biomonitoring of personnel is done to ensure that the protective systems are working satisfactorily . |
| 6 | Hermeneutics is committed to the first and hence to giving some account of how internal orderings relate to reality . |
| 7 | When you say the County Council is committed to the northern or the outer relief road route , do you mean committed or do you mean that that is their preferred option . |
| 8 | Too many people know what is happening to the Polish and the Slavs and to the Jews and the dissenters . |
| 9 | The full supply voltage is applied to the winding and the current is rapidly boosted to slightly above rated . |
| 10 | From the Persian word kelley ( head ) , it is applied to the main or " head " carpet in the traditional arrangement . |
| 11 | Some say that Linear A is related to the Phoenician and Palestinian languages , and that the texts contain lists of people and quantities of produce ; but it would be premature to assume this . |
| 12 | ‘ That Mr Bell was not taken to the Ulster is concerning to the huge and growing population in East and South Belfast and the North Down peninsula . |
| 13 | Economic fluorite mineralisation is restricted to the Dinantian and early Namurian limestone areas of Britain where it is associated with Pb-Ba-Zn mineralisation . |
| 14 | This is a much slower atmospheric change than lungs , of course , and is suited to the confined and restricted conditions of a ‘ soil atmosphere ’ , which is just what we need for them to breathe in poison . |
| 15 | This is no pretend story , but one that stresses real earthiness — God 's coming to the profane and ending the separation between sacred and secular . |
| 16 | Finally , the theory that attention is directed to the left or right side as a consequence of asymmetrical activation of the cerebral hemispheres ( Kinsbourne , 1970 ; 1973 ; 1975a ) predicts that in hemispherectomised patients attention should be directed almost exclusively to the side contralateral to the intact hemisphere . |
| 17 | In all periods , attention is paid to the social and cultural background which gave rise to the literature . |
| 18 | When entry text is returned to the Main and Copy Databases a single copy is made to tape of the changed text table , the entry table and the version table . |