Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads naturally to another key point : whatever social or political meanings are attached to sport by different groups , participation remains intensely sociable and largely organized around the institution of the individual ‘ club ’ — a neglected social creation of the Victorians . |
| 2 | Income and expenditure in foreign currencies are converted to sterling at rates approximating to those ruling at the date of each transaction ; assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates ruling at the balance sheet date . |
| 3 | Dialogue is deftly used in Sercambi 's novella , as sometimes in the French fabliaux , but , as has been noted , none of the French fabliaux are suited to performance in the way that Dame Sirith is , and as an inferrable source for the Shipman 's Tale may have been . |
| 4 | Foreign mercenaries were hired to officer new-formation regiments into which an increasing number of peasant recruits were drafted . |
| 5 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 6 | But if the interpretation of poetic texts is condemned to indeterminacy , then how can we have an explanatory account of the role of figurative language in communication ? |
| 7 | Public relations is related to advertising in that both are about persuasion through communication . |
| 8 | This means that when the raw materials are reduced to fibre ready for re-spinning , they already have colour in them . |
| 9 | One is the fact that the Building Societies Act of 1986 requires that at least 90% of the society 's commercial assets be devoted to mortgage lending . |
| 10 | The value-shifting provisions described in 5.2.6 below can be of particular relevance in this context , in determining the price ( and therefore the amount of the inter-company loan account ) at which the targeted assets are transferred to Target . |
| 11 | The classic French dishes were cooked to perfection by the Arab cook and served gracefully by Arab boys in white uniforms , the eldest of whom seemed about fifteen years old . |
| 12 | The uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 13 | As we go to press , the uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 14 | Seated in your medieval scholar 's desk , centuries of fascinating personalities and great historical events are brought to life before your eyes as the Oxford Story unfolds before you . |
| 15 | ‘ The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season ’ |
| 16 | The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season . |
| 17 | After-images of new and modified blocks are written to twin log files . |
| 18 | Once the route was resolved the Club found itself considering yet again , the prospects of building a new clubhouse at the top of Chalk Hill and serious attempts were made to interest Brewery companies into buying the existing clubhouse for a public house . |
| 19 | When the actual counts were converted to transition probabilities the results shown in Table 6.4 were obtained . |
| 20 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 21 | Later , problems of the Arretine wares were brought to light when factories producing these wares well into the Claudian period were found in Central Gaul , and the terms ‘ provincial Arretine ’ or ‘ proto-South Gaulish ’ were invented . |
| 22 | The proposal that drama somehow became more sophisticated with an interest in psychology adopted by Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists is to come to Renaissance drama with a presumption that literary sophistication is the representation of psychological interiority , a view largely derived from the centrality of late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels within a reading experience . |
| 23 | Since 1974 not only have the absolute numbers being sent to prison increased but the courts have become more punitive in the sense that they are sending a higher proportion of those convicted to prison . |
| 24 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 25 | A BRITON escaped with a life sentence for drugs trafficking in Thailand , but his two Canadian colleagues were sentenced to death , the Thai Criminal court confirmed yesterday . |
| 26 | Friends of the Earth has called for a boycott of all timber products from Britain 's leading " do-it-yourself " chain stores , on the grounds that their import of tropical hardwoods is contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 27 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 28 | Leading pacifists were drawn to Guild Socialism , and the ILP itself moved far towards endorsing the idea of self-government in industry . |
| 29 | Ethical guidelines are needed to undergird national policies for information . |
| 30 | These psychological pathologies are attributed to failure to come to terms with impairment ( Lindowski and Dunn , 1974 ; Shindi , 1983 ) . |