Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] to [art] [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 | Thinking and perceiving , which might naturally be attributed to an incorporeal mind , are simply complex motions in matter . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Action : Updates may only be made to the latest approved baseline for the specified root package — the discrepancy must be resolved manually |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So , in French , ( 45 ) is ambiguous as to whether there is one or more addressees , but ( 46 ) can only be addressed to a single addressee : Vous parlez francais ? ( 46 ) Vous etes le professeur ? |
| 11 | The release included statements that ‘ the discovery will be relatively easy to make into a usable technology for generating heat and power ’ ; and that ‘ this generation of heat continues over long periods and is so large that it can only be attributed to a nuclear process ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in a transaction entered into in contravention of section 3 can only be subjected to a restitutionary order under subsection ( 2 ) if and to the extent that the person received money or property under the transaction in question . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | This was a police matter , and such information should only be divulged to the legal teams , and possibly to the families , she said . |
| 17 | Some information may only be released to the preferred bidder after phase III . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Such techniques are available in the axisymmetric case , and may soon be extended to the colliding wave situation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It seems likely that greatly increased development funds from the European Economic Community ( EEC ) may soon be channelled to the Western Isles . |
| 23 | Neal will thus be alerted to the impending failure of his battery . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Similarly , the obligations of one counterparty under the contract can not generally be transferred to a third party . |
| 30 | This was a tolerably painless process since they could generally be provided to a clerical living in their retirement . |