Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] are [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit prices are published daily in the form of an offer-bid spread ( the price at which units are offered to the public and the price bid by the management for redemption which differ by around 6% ) . |
| 2 | One research team keeps a record of which computers are attached to the network at any time . |
| 3 | Unpublished works include Latin translations of an astrological text by Benjamin Worsley [ q.v. ] ( c .1657 ) and Kinckhuysen 's textbook on algebra ( c .1669 ) , and versions of a treatise on music theory in which logarithms are applied to the division of the musical scale ( c .1672 ) . |
| 4 | He is the custodian of the shrines at which offerings are made to the ancestors of the group which he leads . |
| 5 | • Poorly developed means by which time-cues are passed to the clock ; |
| 6 | Then there are the large international hotels whose operations are geared to the needs of overseas travellers . |
| 7 | This spreadsheet is to be used to keep weekly scores for 16 boys and the problem it posed is that when you want to type in scores for weeks in the second half of the year or for Harry , Ian and John and so on whose names are entered to the right of the spreadsheet , you can no longer see the row and column labels — unless you freeze these titles . |
| 8 | Whilst choice theories firmly limit the range of legal obligations to the parties to an agreement , the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory envisages a broader range of obligations owed not only to persons who have chosen to enter an agreement together but also to anyone whose interests are subjected to the risk of harm . |
| 9 | And , therefore , the argument is of people whose backs are pinned to the wall before they 're questioned as it were , and that does n't make for a sober and calm discussion , especially as there is some doubt , I suspect , in the mind of ministers , but certainly in the mind of many people in the Conservative Party , about whether these great absolutes , this wall against which ministers and departments are nailed , really need exist in quite the form it 's being constructed or whether the whole issue could n't be handled in a rather more sensitive and relaxed way . |
| 10 | The sole supporters or the ‘ social democratic ’ welfare state are , so the argument goes , the publicly employed educated classes , whose careers are linked to the state . |
| 11 | Although the US parent company is not a public company as defined in s 1(3) , CA 1985 , it is a body corporate whose shares are offered to the public . |
| 12 | Erm now what powers are given to the president of the United States by the constitution of the United States ? |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that , whatever changes are made to the sitting hours , it would be a retrograde step — a step detrimental to the rights of Back Benchers — to introduce legislation to reduce them ? |