Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | While Fountains Abbey , the great Gothic ruin set in beautiful parkland , could naturally be transferred to the National Trust given a suitable endowment ( who would provide the millions needed for that ? ) , and Westminster Abbey 's Chapter House could be entrusted to the Church of England , it is uncertain whether some of the less glamourous archaeological sites could be hived off to local councils without risk to their future . |
2 | It was announced on Sept. 1 that the Albanian lek would henceforth be linked to the European currency unit at an initial rate of ECU1=30 leks ( US$1.00=25 leks ) . |
3 | But there are things you would be ashamed to tell even your doctor , things so vile they can only be confessed to the lowest , most contemptible functionaries of all . |
4 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
5 | If the target is eventually sold for a profit , the benefit of the realised reserves can only be transferred to the original purchaser ( by dividend ) if the IHC has adequate distributable resources . |
6 | Action : Updates may only be made to the latest approved baseline for the specified root package — the discrepancy must be resolved manually |
7 | If marker chromosomes are used , scoring can be simplified since the expected to the observed grain counts need only be related to the total percentage length of the markers within the genome . |
8 | Quite why some of the leading golfers in the world started to behave like 18 handicap amateurs can only be attributed to the special pressures which the Ryder Cup produces . |
9 | If , as I think , significance should only be attached to the clear statements made by a minister or other promoter of the Bill , the difficulty of knowing what weight to attach to such statements is not overwhelming . |
10 | ( Civil cases in Singapore could only be taken to the Privy Council in London if both parties agreed in advance of hearings at the Court of Appeals . ) |
11 | This was a police matter , and such information should only be divulged to the legal teams , and possibly to the families , she said . |
12 | Some information may only be released to the preferred bidder after phase III . |
13 | For example , the probable universal existence of tag-questions ( under a functional definition ) can perhaps be related to the universal operation of rules of turn-taking that allow as one option the ending of current speaker 's turn by a selection of a next speaker . |
14 | On the other hand , Colonel Haldane did not succeed in winning the vote of the burgh of Inverkeithing itself , a failure which may perhaps be linked to the lasting hostility of the burgesses occasioned by his own quick temper two years earlier , for in 1752 he had given Provost John Cunningham a black eye when he had encountered the chief magistrate on the steps of the tolbooth , an error of judgement which served to undo much of the Haldane party 's work in that town , and indeed ran the colonel some risk of being mobbed . |
15 | ‘ And if you 're worried about the taxpayer , should n't you perhaps be attending to the urgent little matter your sergeant told you about ? ’ |
16 | Such techniques are available in the axisymmetric case , and may soon be extended to the colliding wave situation . |
17 | It goes like this : back in 1983 local people decided they were fed up with repeated Indonesian Government promises that the village would soon be connected to the national electricity grid . |
18 | It seems likely that greatly increased development funds from the European Economic Community ( EEC ) may soon be channelled to the Western Isles . |
19 | JAMES BOND soon be returning to the big screen for his first film since 1989 . |
20 | Neal will thus be alerted to the impending failure of his battery . |
21 | SERPs ( State Earnings Related Pension ) will no longer be related to the best 20 years of earnings , a provision designed to take account of women 's variable earnings pattern . |
22 | The warnings ( like those on the packets ) will no longer be attributed to the Chief Medical Officers , except the strongest warning , ‘ Smoking Kills ’ , to which the industry took special exception . |
23 | The congress agreed that PSOE members need no longer be affiliated to the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , a decision reflecting recent disagreements between the PSOE and the UGT , and formally ending the once close relationship between the two organizations . |
24 | Community care proposals were perceived by many NHS staff as essentially to do with social care , something which could best be left to the local authorities . |
25 | In the first place , alterations in one 's attitudinal stance can not just be related to the internal affective state of the attitude-holder , but should be understood in terms of the rhetorical context of controversy . |
26 | He 's been visiting Oxford to promote his book and he hopes he wo n't just be preaching to the converted . |
27 | Application should normally be made to the appropriate education authority for grant aid before 1 June of the year in which the student wishes to enter a course , even though at that time the student may not have been offered a place . |
28 | All the relatives of a particular person of a particular age and sex can already be calculated to the 2nd degree of kinship , giving the age and sex of these relatives together with range of variation and proportions lacking . |
29 | It thus came about that , during the process of a boy 's adjustment to public school , two very powerful and not very compatible needs — the need for power and the need for love — were grossly stimulated , in an environment where their satisfaction could not easily be assigned to the usual separate compartments of life . |
30 | The biblical account of Adam naming the world can easily be applied to the mass media . |