Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | These , again , are pre-set to a small selection , but , noticeably , they include only those colours that normally print well with a three colour ribbon , which , given the price and target audience of the program , is a sensible move . |
| 3 | All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom . |
| 4 | The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm . |
| 5 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 6 | Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document . |
| 7 | It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 8 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 9 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 10 | any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced . |
| 11 | The only difference between this demo and the full commercial version is that you are limited to a single theatre of operations . |
| 12 | However , the limitations of these data must be borne in mind , especially the fact that they are limited to a single point in time . |
| 13 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 14 | If you are limited to a three-lamp set-up , your subjects have to remain within a fairly small area , otherwise the lighting becomes unbalanced and the performers may even stray into unlit areas . |
| 15 | ‘ There is no new thing under the sun ’ and in kung fu the angles and arcs of attack are limited to a 360-degree area . |
| 16 | ‘ We are now dealing with a situation where all of us are exposed to a cannabis-like substance . |
| 17 | They are not free-running — they are stabilized to a 24-hour day . |
| 18 | We could implement the same architecture in a number of ways , and some ranges of computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) are designed to a common architecture but with a radically different physical implementation for each model . |
| 19 | Official letters to MI6 are addressed to a mythical person called Mr G. H. Merrick . |
| 20 | The Director of the State Historical Library , Mikhail Afanas'yev , has confessed in an interview with the newspaper Kuranty that , ‘ Books from captured German holdings are perishing to a limited extent ’ . |
| 21 | Humans are synchronized to a 24-hour cycle , however , and so time-cues must exist , albeit often artificial ones . |
| 22 | Because I recognise you will have concerns I am committed to a vigorous programme of communication both at corporate and at local level . |
| 23 | The other is that even if subsidiaries of large companies are attracted to a particular region , and the company decides to develop innovations in that location , there is always the possibility that the firm ( likely to be a multinational corporation ) will relocate its plant , or switch manufacturing to other plants , and the local/regional authority will be powerless to intervene . |
| 24 | Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench . |
| 25 | It 's a vast site , but the burials are confined to a small area . |
| 26 | It is also possible to envisage successful record of achievement schemes where these are confined to a particular course such as the CPVE or some of the other externally accredited vocational courses . |
| 27 | Since the possibility of full grammatical coverage is not feasible many systems have been created that are targeted to a specific application domain . |
| 28 | Could he also tell me whether he said on 16 December 1983 : ’ We are committed to a non-nuclear defence policy ? ’ |
| 29 | Several top managers are unhappy that England are committed to a three-match tournament in the United States this summer . |
| 30 | The ASEAN states are committed to a limited neutralisation of Kampuchea . |