Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] are [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | This means that when the raw materials are reduced to fibre ready for re-spinning , they already have colour in them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After-images of new and modified blocks are written to twin log files . |
| 9 | Ethical guidelines are needed to undergird national policies for information . |
| 10 | These psychological pathologies are attributed to failure to come to terms with impairment ( Lindowski and Dunn , 1974 ; Shindi , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Commercially dried apricots are exposed to sulphur dioxide to preserve their colour , before they are dried in hot air . |
| 12 | So long as China has the PLA as its powerful back-up , attempts by ( Western ) hostile forces are doomed to failure , and there is absolutely no way for the socialist system to be abolished on the earth . ’ |
| 13 | The most stringent standards are applied to safety , transport and environmental protection . |
| 14 | However , there are a number of studies which do suggest that socio-economic characteristics are related to morbidity and to access to health services . |
| 15 | The salaries and career prospects of in-house engineers are linked to performance aims , which can encourage over-design of schemes . |
| 16 | Whenever substantial changes are made to dictionary material it is desirable that lexicographers be aware of cross-references targeted on material which is to have its address or its meaning changed . |
| 17 | If the requirement for in situ hybridization to chromosomes is to probe for the completely unknown localization of unique sequences in the mouse genome , existing techniques are limited to tissue samples which give a plentiful supply of both slides and mitotic cells . |
| 18 | ‘ There are many occasions when perfectly sensible and reasonable sentences are subjected to criticism unfairly . |
| 19 | ‘ Delaware ’ , with its ice-melting bass licks , warmingly thrills , and ‘ Winona ’ blazes beautifully , but pool US and UK white , middle-class , narrow-vision indie pop minds and anaemic strains are bound to surface . |
| 20 | Continental companies are trying to muscle into the UK market where Hoffman La Roche , the leading Swiss pharmaceuticals group and the world 's biggest vitamin manufacturer , is already well established with its Redoxin range of vitamins . |
| 21 | as topsy-turvy moths are drawn to flame , |
| 22 | An alternative — and theoretically the more sound approach — is a ‘ demand-led ’ strategy in which general managers are committed to investment in development because they can see its importance . |
| 23 | This is what seems to have happened early in the history of the Earth , because the oldest known fossil remains of proteinoid globules are believed to date back about 4 billion years . |
| 24 | Repetitive stimuli are relegated to background noise and , like the ticking of that clock , are not heard until they stop . |
| 25 | If only the most dependent and disturbed patients are admitted to hospital care , then local authority care will need to provide for a wide range of elderly people including many with dementia , and some with milder behaviour problems . |
| 26 | WHEN law-abiding citizens are driven to desperation by criminals who apparently flout the law with impunity , it is hard to blame them when they take things into their own hands . |
| 27 | The red route option , which we introduced , has already shown that bus services improve when comparable improvements are made to traffic management . |
| 28 | In a peculiar way , Gothic tales are related to comedy . |
| 29 | Disenfranchised voters are believed to number at least 100,000 — though why the lenders want their business is anybody 's guess . |
| 30 | If P and Q are processes , we will write unc ( Q is more deterministic than P ) if the semantic value of P is less than that of Q for all environments with unbounded sets of free locations and channels , and states where unused locations are mapped to error . |