Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The homology of a particular vein is often difficult to determine and resort has to be made to comparison with allied forms ( including fossils ) , which exhibit transitional stages in reduction , or to a study of the preceding tracheation . |
| 2 | The disposal of trade , effluents has become an important factor in running factories in many industries all over the world , and attention has to be given to methods of dealing with waste waters in order to select the most economical methods , both in running costs and in capital expenditure . |
| 3 | If every project has to be referred to SNH , why have an EGBT at all ? |
| 4 | That was suggested by the Labour party in ’ Fair Rates ’ and by the Conservative party in their so-called council tax — somehow , mysteriously , the system has to be related to ability to pay . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sure , but the best thing is if I know everything , then I can judge how much has to be said to Mother Clare . ’ |
| 6 | Except in rare cases , a similar analysis has to be applied to finds as these have no inscriptions or written records to identify them . |
| 7 | Secondly , the sale has to be marketed better , it has to be sold to booksellers and publishers . |
| 8 | To have a clear philosophy , and a staff who back it , is not enough : it has to be sold to representatives of the community who have considerable power to make life difficult if they are not convinced . |
| 9 | ‘ She has to be brought to maturity immediately ! ’ he said . |
| 10 | erm When the the the job description is signed it ought to be passed by a job analyst just to make sure to check the things that erm it has been done properly and then it has to be signed by the erm job holder , the job holder 's manager and the head of division , and it has to be got to personnel . |
| 11 | The situation needs to be explained to parents in terms of : |
| 12 | The IFS argues that a similar change now needs to be made to employers ' contributions . |
| 13 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc implementation of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today : the paper quoted Sun president Scott McNealy as saying ‘ NT needs to be ported to Sparc — if they [ Microsoft ] do n't do it , they are missing the boat ’ ; despite the denials , observers hint darkly that some sort of effort involving Sparc and Microsoft is under way , and will come to the surface over the next few months . |
| 14 | The paper quoted Sun president Scott McNealy as saying ‘ NT needs to be ported to Sparc . |
| 15 | The Church should now recognise the priority which needs to be given to music if the impoverishment of services is not going to continue . |
| 16 | Emphasis needs to be given to strategies and materials which reinforce knowledge made available elsewhere in the school curriculum , and valuable in the preparation of students for public examinations . |
| 17 | Thus , about beliefs and values in science education , Michael Poole writes : In science education and in other areas of the curriculum more help needs to be given to students to enable them to discern where beliefs and values are located , how to spot where they follow from the subject matter or were imported at the beginning , what are the available options among them and what are appropriate criteria for testing their truth-claims and adjudicating between the ones on offer . |
| 18 | It is not harmful to vision , but attention needs to be given to lighting and position to prevent postural fatigue and the development of spinal curvature . |
| 19 | As with the writers of Scripture , so with its readers , the mind and whole being needs to be dedicated to God . |
| 20 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , because of the greater uncertainties in the foreign exchange markets , more attention needs to be paid to currency risk . |
| 22 | As computer systems become more powerful , less stress needs to be paid to problems of implementation ( availability of storage , for example ) and more to problems independent of implementation . |
| 23 | One canard , at least , needs to be laid to rest . |
| 24 | If sudden illness overtakes an elderly person living alone and she needs to be admitted to hospital , she sometimes becomes very agitated and distressed . |
| 25 | Mr O'Muilleoir had a further chance to criticise unionists for going on ‘ junkets ’ with a notice of motion calling for spending on council trips to be limited to £30,000 . |
| 26 | The remuneration committee , consisting of all the independent directors , determines the employment terms and total remuneration of the executive directors and the amounts to be appropriated to employees through the profit sharing scheme . |
| 27 | It prescribes methods to be used to determine the amounts to be ascribed to capital instruments and their associated costs and requires certain disclosures relating to capital instruments . |
| 28 | In terms of the statistics directly employed to assess regional economic performance , by far the widest exposure tends to be given to measurements of regional per capita GDP . |
| 29 | Solvent responsive soils : no particular type of soil tends to be related to solvents . |
| 30 | A combination of government secrecy and collective responsibility ( the notion that an individual member must not disagree publicly with a Cabinet decision ) have made it difficult to discover the extent to which cabinets are genuinely collective decision-making bodies , but a succession of leaks and memoirs , such as Richard Crossman 's ( Crossman , 1975–7 ) , has built up a picture of a committee in which genuine debate tends to be restricted to issues that come to assume major political importance for the government . |