Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other investment — in patents and licences , for example — may be intended to deny ideas to rivals rather than to search for useful products . |
| 2 | Smoking and drug histories were taken although no patient was receiving any treatment that would be expected to give rise to DNA damage . |
| 3 | The so-called ‘ Second Ashida Memorandum ’ for the first time envisaged the possibility that , if the UN was not capable of protecting Japan , the United States would be permitted to send forces to Japan and utilise bases in order to defend Japan . |
| 4 | In these circumstances the normal terms and conditions of employment for the post in question will be applied , although every effort will be made to transfer staff to posts of a comparable level . |
| 5 | can be seen to have relevance to measures of output . |
| 6 | ‘ But when companies are laying off workers , they ca n't then be seen to donate money to charity . |
| 7 | Section 2(4) could therefore be said to give supremacy to community law . |
| 8 | One advantage of this amalgamation might be that there would be less potential for the jury to become confused , and yet the jury would still be empowered to reduce murder to manslaughter in appropriate cases . |
| 9 | At the end of each week , local ITI centres will be used to invite families to Tennis Extravaganza weekends which , it is hoped , will further encourage family participation in the game . |
| 10 | On the one hand , it is difficult to see how some of Porter 's ten cost-drivers can be used to assign costs to products in an activity-based costing sense . |
| 11 | These results introduce an immunologically-important , putative LCR which can be used to target genes to cells of the B cell lineage , as well as to other class II MHC expressing cells , and highlight the importance of chromatin structure analysis as a means to locate DNA regions of regulatory interest which are dispersed over a large distance . |
| 12 | In principle , the display of antibody fragments on the surface of recombinant retroviral particles could be used to target virus to cells for gene delivery , or to retain the virus in target tissues . |
| 13 | PI can also be used to convert degrees to radians and radians to degrees . |
| 14 | Waste will be sorted centrally at a waste stream sorting plant ; easily recyclable materials such as metals , glass and plastics will be sent to reprocessing plants in the region ; organic material will be composted and sold for fertiliser ; heat generated by the decomposing material will be used to warm ponds to farm prawns and crayfish , and gas will be sold to a local power-generating company . |
| 15 | Esops have two parts : an employee benefit trust , which can buy and hold existing shares in its adopting company , and one or more share schemes which can be used to distribute shares to employees . |
| 16 | It can be used to gain access to libraries or computer rooms in the buildings . |
| 17 | While this will not improve the quality of the content of the information , it can be used to attract attention to displays of information in a way in which printed notices or guides can not . |
| 18 | Alternative washing agents may be used to reduce corrosion to aluminium . |
| 19 | However , the greater solar input at the equator than at the poles would produce greater solar choking at the equator , and this can be shown to aid equator to pole circulation in the Jovian interior , thus distributing solar energy more uniformly and leading to the small equator to pole temperature differences observed in the upper troposphere . |
| 20 | A national survey has been conducted to show the sensitivity of particular soils to acid fallout and the degree by which the fallout will have to be reduced to end damage to soils and vegetation calculated . |
| 21 | The underlying point is that it is not every act of provocation which should be allowed to reduce murder to manslaughter , but only those serious enough to unbalance the behaviour of a person with reasonable self-control . |
| 22 | He now brings an action in the High Court , in the course of which he gets an order for discovery , B is compelled to disclose the documents which he has that support A's case , and A may be allowed to administer interrogatories to B — questions in writing which B must answer also in writing but upon oath . |
| 23 | Hrawi 's message was widely interpreted as a warning to Gen. Aoun that forces in West Beirut might be preparing to offer support to Geaga 's forces . |
| 24 | In profit-oriented organizations this emphasis has not been to the exclusion of performance measures for the simple reason that , because of the existence of the profit measure , the stewardship accounts can be analysed to yield pointers to performance . |
| 25 | Since this chapter is meant as a normative-explanatory account of the core notion of authority , it can be extended to explain reference to authority in various specific contexts . |
| 26 | Artai was bowing to left and right now , the last time in his life he would ever be required to offer courtesy to others . |
| 27 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |