Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In addition to financial support , personnel are sometimes seconded to projects and charities .
2 Prisoners are now sent to prison as a punishment , not for punishment .
3 The principles described above still apply in that skills are especially suited to analysis , and can be assessed more easily than the other domains by objective tests .
4 In the cutical-chitin chains are apparently joined to proteins by covalent linkages involving aspartic acid and histidine ( Rudall , 1963 ) .
5 Frontline , produced quarterly , has 14,000 readers , mainly Dixons staff in Britain , through copies are also sent to Silo , the company 's American subsidiary , and to City analysts and stockbrokers .
6 Often the adverts are not geared to needs but aim at ‘ developing a desire ’ , thus fostering a consumerist mentality which can be detrimental to developmental effort .
7 The Attorney General for England states that cases are often brought to trial which , from being imperfectly got up , break down , and thus cause the acquittal of guilty parties .
8 This social cross-section gives Easton 's police a variety of crime and law-and-order situations to confront , in conjunction with which there is the ever-present danger and threat from the IRA , whose activities are not restricted to Republican areas .
9 Although few characters from the professions appear to influence demi-caractère dance ( their activities are usually confined to character works ) , the Navy and Army have regularly inspired choreographers. first comes the Navy' .
10 The Government generally take the view that matters of pay and hours are better left to negotiation between employers and employees , or by their representatives , and that they should certainly not be dealt with in legislation or in codes of practice provided for in statute .
11 In larvae of the Hymenoptera Apocrita and the higher Diptera the antennae are often reduced to minute tubercles or are atrophied .
12 In aquarium conditions such attempts are usually doomed to failure due to bacteria attacking the severed portions before the wounds heal .
13 They act , in Scott 's phrase ( 1982 , p. 125 ) , as ‘ internal capitalists ’ ; even if they do not hold major shareholdings their rewards are closely tied to company profitability .
14 Many of these differentiating characteristics are closely linked to personality and can not be homogenized out of existence , although their significance as factors fragmenting proletarian unity can vary widely .
15 Jewry 's role in the revolutions of the 19th and 20th Centuries are also brought to light , from leading the 1798 French Revolution to the origins of Communism and the 1917 Russian Revolution , a revolution financed by New York 's Jewish-owned Wall Street Banks and led by imported American Jewish revolutionaries .
16 These methods are well suited to computers and often have the advantage that , should an error occur , at worst it lengthens the computations a little .
17 It provides a standard method for treating contaminated soils , sands , and solids ; it provides treatment for surface contamination , while other methods are more suited to subsurface treatment ; and it also requires a relatively low level of technology , meaning less can go wrong with the process .
18 Readers are also referred to Smith ( 1985 ) for a full and very personal account of the broad ethical issues which he feels are raised when white academic researchers study poor non-white minority communities in Britain .
19 I have long been suspicious of the official line that terminal bonuses are directly attributed to investment surplus and that poor value on death or on policy premium amendment is the price for higher returns if you are lucky enough to make it to retirement .
20 It is important that air is distributed evenly throughout the room and that the animals are not exposed to drafts .
21 Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) .
22 These narratives consistently address material conditions and contradictions in women 's lives ; and the international sales figures indicate that those contradictions are not restricted to women in the western cultures of Britain and America .
23 On the basis of studies carried out in the UK , Europe and the US , the report concludes that car drivers are regularly exposed to levels of pollution up to 18 times higher than cyclists .
24 The entries are periodically posted to accounts held in ledgers , usually in an integrated accounting system which is the responsibility of the accounts department .
25 The entries are periodically posted to accounts held in ledgers , usually in an integrated accounting system which is the responsibility of the accounts department .
26 In Tolkien 's poem , accordingly , the words are not given to Beorhtwold but form part of a dream dreamt by the poet Torhthelm :
27 While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are .
28 Such syntactic formulae are not confined to elephant-jokes , and their pervasiveness warrants further consideration and analysis , I think , especially in projects for foreign students of English .
29 These algorithms are most suited to tasks with small branching ratios and reversible operators , and with simple states so that the algorithm can remember several states at a time .
30 And , in this modern era , the squad sessions are not restricted to instruction on technique .
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