Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes in O 3 concentrations are predominantly confined to the latitude band of injections in July . |
| 2 | Part of the reason for this is , again , the way in which women are effectively confined to the home at least for some part of their lives . |
| 3 | Cars and lorries in Britain are effectively subsidised to the tune of £20 million annually . |
| 4 | When Mr and Mrs Bloggs are eventually summoned to the teacher 's desk they are asked what they thought of the work . |
| 5 | They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor . |
| 6 | The third group comprises the European fossils that are mostly attributed to the genus Dryopithecus . |
| 7 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 8 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 9 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 10 | The curriculum is not seen in terms of constant amelioration of handicapping conditions , but rather in terms of making up for deficiencies which are constantly imputed to the child . |
| 11 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 12 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 13 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 14 | So in allocating loans , banks are especially committed to the expansion of their more important customers and preferential terms are offered through lower interest rates or more flexible borrowing limits . |
| 15 | As well as being a threat to the ozone layer and human health , it is now thought that they are especially attracted to the wax coatings on conifer needles , reaching 100 times the concentration in the air . |
| 16 | My own survey in Brighton indicates that GHQ scores and reported deterioration in health are highly related to the extent to which unemployed men can maintain the social contact , collective purpose , activity , time-structure and status that Jahoda identified . |
| 17 | They are made using precision alloys which are thermally matched to the temperature expansion characteristics of the substrate materials . |
| 18 | erm they 're rather like sort of mutations are randomly related to the gene from which the mutation took place , but now we 're talking about a whole species suddenly arising with a new randomly arranged set of traits , and then the wholesale direction of evolution erm is determined by selection favouring some species in competition with other species . |
| 19 | Any ringing would be detected by transducers ( e.g. piezoelectric crystals ) which are mechanically connected to the bar . |
| 20 | Venetian blinds are better suited to a study or workroom where a simple , practical treatment is needed , and where they can be easily dusted over . |
| 21 | The wrecks are less exposed to the weather than they might be , lying in the lee of a hill called , improbably , Mount Sutlej . |
| 22 | In this sense , the dictionary and its definitions are less suited to the recognition of domains that are more abstract or esoteric . |
| 23 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 24 | Companies such as Rank Xerox are so dedicated to the idea that they are inverting their organisation structures to ensure that the front-line troops — those who interface most closely with the customer become the focus of attention . |
| 25 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 26 | The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes . |
| 27 | If z describes market conditions which are only known to the incumbent , then the results above tell us that the entrants gradually get to learn the incumbent 's private information . |
| 28 | There are pygmy varieties that can be grown in a sink , right through to vigorous kinds that are only suited to a lake or large pool in a public park . |
| 29 | Many of the books are personally inscribed to the collector by the most famous authors of the century . |
| 30 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |