Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the last , she is reduced to a frightened little girl , victim of her own curiosity . |
| 2 | The preventive duty is broader than Section I of the 1980 Child Care Act , but it is owed to a restricted group of children ( Masson , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | In various sizes and power outputs , from 1.7 litres normally aspirated to 2.1 litres turbocharged , and 60 bhp to 110 bhp , it is fitted to a wide range of Citroen and Peuegot cars , including the Citroen ZX , BX and XM , and the Peugeot 205 , 309 and 605 , as well as the Rovers . |
| 4 | He is able to decide what sort of programme is suitable for his patients and make sure that it is run to a suitable standard . |
| 5 | After all , it is flattering to a hard-working policeman to think that someone as glamorous , or glamorous-seeming , as an author wants to know about his dull daily life . |
| 6 | ‘ The recent change from Madam to Madame , ’ she said , ‘ though it has doubtless raised the tone and general tenor of proceedings in this low and benighted place , has not quite succeeded in erasing the traces of squalor and indeed sleaze which cling to that title in the popular or gutter imagination whenever it is applied to a hard-working woman . |
| 7 | A 92½° ( or 91½7degree ; ) bend ensures that a horizontal pipe falls away where it is connected to a vertical section of pipe |
| 8 | It is provided to a limited number of recipients who have entered into a confidentiality agreement and should enable potential acquirers to decide whether the business fits their acquisition criteria and whether to pursue their initial interest . |
| 9 | If the right of way is in terms a right to use it with vehicles it will be difficult , in the absence of express words , to show that it is restricted to a particular type or size of vehicle ( ibid ) . |
| 10 | It is attributed to an Indian woman whose two daughters had been raped . |
| 11 | The Labour party is not committed to any specific increase in health service expenditure , but it is committed to a specific cut in the proportion of NHS expenditure used for patient care . |
| 12 | It is committed to a high tax policy , high borrowing and high spending , which in the past have led to pain , suffering , misery and job losses . |
| 13 | We said it would be difficult , erm and that discussion has proved how difficult it is to come to a firm conclusion . |
| 14 | Above all , and most curiously of all , it is to come to a deeper knowledge of the inexplicable mercy of God , and of that fierce love that simply will not let his world go . |
| 15 | It is linked to a further project , supported by the Anglo-German Foundation , which is examining changes in the arrangements of the mortgage finance in West Germany . |
| 16 | It is attached to a Persian astrolabe of the early thirteenth century now in the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford . |
| 17 | To do this we consider the change in length of a small element dS of a line in the body as it is distorted to a new shape . |
| 18 | It is dedicated to an 18th century Swiss artist who lived and worked in England between 1766–81 , Angelica Kauffman ( 1741–1807 ) / It is really shocking how rare such exhibitions are , especially in Britain . |
| 19 | A g-g transition may be forbidden if considered as a purely electronic process , but it may become allowed if it is coupled to a vibrational process of u symmetry — if , for instance , a u vibrational mode is excited in the upper state . |
| 20 | It is leading to a slow but growing erosion of the very quality that makes Skye different . |
| 21 | That is a capital sum which is deemed to be paid to the settlor because it is paid to a third party at the settlor 's direction . |
| 22 | a manager might have to change his leadership style as the circumstances of his job change ( eg. when he is moved to a new job ) . |
| 23 | If the candidate makes the grade in the Hawk , where he learns to handle fast jets and basic skills in bombing and dogfighting , he is posted to a Tactical Weapons Unit where these skills are honed . |
| 24 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 25 | Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him . |
| 26 | Taken from the Zulu people who helped nurture him , he is sent to a brutish Boer boarding school . |
| 27 | Since , as we have seen , Adorno overestimates the homogeneity of culture under advanced capitalism , he is led to a similar interpretation of popular musical form . |
| 28 | He is attached to an artificial ventilator which ventilates his lungs , and his heart is beating . |
| 29 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 30 | Only one in twenty of them is reduced to a dependent life in a hospital or home : considerably more , in fact , are carers for others . |