Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly , no doubt , because teacher education in language is mostly tied to the teaching of particular languages , or to other disciplines like psychology or sociology where language is not the central focus . |
| 2 | This is not really a case of excluding the warranties which would otherwise be implied by the relevant legislation , but rather one of making sure that the warranty given is properly tailored to the subject matter of the contract . |
| 3 | In either case , always check that the leash is properly attached to the collar . |
| 4 | God-like , Niall flings himself on to his adoring audience , sinks beneath the waves and is eventually restored to the stage in time for the anti-rap encore of ‘ Where 's Me Jumper ’ . |
| 5 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 6 | Mone-tarization is thereby tied to the rise of industrialization and bureaucracy . |
| 7 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 8 | The lower jaw of these fish is loosely slung to the brain case so that they had a very wide ‘ gape ’ . |
| 9 | It is suggested that the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Eurocopy case is the more equitable solution , particularly in circumstances where a disclosure is expressly brought to the attention of the vendor before completion but is not actually incorporated in the final disclosure letter . |
| 10 | A report is duly sent to the LIFESPAN manager when any such breaches of practice occur . |
| 11 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |
| 12 | The way a person comes into contact with heroin , is offered it , and accepts it , is intimately related to the heroin use of the significant others in that person 's life . |
| 13 | Retaining a trickle of power through the flare reduces the rate of descent to near zero , and the aircraft is gently lowered to the surface in the almost-level planing altitude . |
| 14 | The mention of these two blockbuster names ought not to imply , however , that the collecting of contemporary fiction is necessarily allied to the bestseller lists : booksellers may rest assured that not one of the mega-thousands of Jilly Coopers , Jeffrey Archers , Wilbur Smiths or Catherine Cooksons will go to a collector , while a surprising number of Dennis Potters , Alan Bennetts , Kingsley Amises , William Boyds , Seamus Heaneys and Alan Ayckbourns will . |
| 15 | Prescribed themes can be introduced in any order but whatever is studied in history is constantly related to the time-line ( see Figure 2.5 for one example ) . |
| 16 | Reference is constantly made to the president 's budget and the chief executive is held responsible for the consequences of budgetary policy , especially by members of the opposition party in Congress . |
| 17 | Sometimes it is unclear whether misconduct is sufficiently linked to the job to entitle the employer to take disciplinary action . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps it 's all run to the bottom , or gone dry . ’ |
| 19 | The Artistic Merit Cup is annually awarded to the piece of marquetry that , presumably , stands best as a piece of interpretive art . |
| 20 | Erm , the agency has considered a paper on this as is referred to in the final paragraph , what it 's basically suggesting to the Department of the Environment and the Home Office is , is that a formula is based upon the supply factors er , such as the , the number of fire stations and standard crew levels etcetera . |
| 21 | The attribute unc on the other hand , associates the gear-lever to the passenger compartment and is thus an external association , as is unc which is only applied to the assembly ( not to individual parts ) . |
| 22 | Autonomy on the part of employees is only tolerated to the extent that it contributes to productivity and profitability . |
| 23 | In its most basic sense , determinism is only committed to the view that behaviour is the outcome of antecedent causes . |
| 24 | Pulverized bark or even wood shavings can be used as it is so exposed to the air that denitrification is avoided . |
| 25 | Among the privileged classes , white male parentage is so stressed to the exclusion of black female that ‘ you get the impression that these virile Englishmen do not require women to reproduce . |
| 26 | The scope or character of a piece of criticism is naturally related to the magazine or newspaper in which it appears , as we noticed in the case of Dore Ashton 's dismissal from the New York Times because it was asserted that her work could not be understood by the paper 's readers . |
| 27 | Upon binding InsP 3 , the receptor undergoes a large conformational change which is perhaps related to the coupling process leading to channel opening . |
| 28 | The height of the ridge is apparently related to the amount of sediment being moved into the adjacent subduction zone where lithosphere is being subducted at a rate of about 65 mm a- 1 . |
| 29 | The ant , Petalomyrex phylax , is apparently restricted to the plant and protects its stem apices from attack . |
| 30 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |