Example sentences of "be [verb] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | These , again , are pre-set to a small selection , but , noticeably , they include only those colours that normally print well with a three colour ribbon , which , given the price and target audience of the program , is a sensible move . |
| 3 | All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom . |
| 4 | The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm . |
| 5 | But Adrie van Tiggelen , the Anderlecht defender who missed the Wales game because of suspension , has been recalled to a 16-man squad which also includes AC 's Frank Rijkaard . |
| 6 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 7 | Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document . |
| 8 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 9 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 10 | It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 11 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 12 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |
| 13 | Indeed , the six-metre long sauropod neck has been likened to a living crane for lifting the head to feed , with up to fifteen vertebrae possessing unique extra articulations in the neck to combine strength with agility . |
| 14 | The emotions have been likened to a musical instrument and it is a man 's task to play upon its uttermost strings . |
| 15 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 16 | any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced . |
| 17 | Children who come to this school are limited to a Fine Arts base , and possibly Graphics . |
| 18 | The only difference between this demo and the full commercial version is that you are limited to a single theatre of operations . |
| 19 | However , the limitations of these data must be borne in mind , especially the fact that they are limited to a single point in time . |
| 20 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 21 | If you are limited to a three-lamp set-up , your subjects have to remain within a fairly small area , otherwise the lighting becomes unbalanced and the performers may even stray into unlit areas . |
| 22 | ‘ There is no new thing under the sun ’ and in kung fu the angles and arcs of attack are limited to a 360-degree area . |
| 23 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 24 | Mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the U K is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of U N er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant . |
| 25 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 26 | ‘ We are now dealing with a situation where all of us are exposed to a cannabis-like substance . |
| 27 | Tumour ‘ promoters ’ are substances such as the phorbolesters that are n't carcinogenic by themselves but encourage the growth of malignant tumours in cells that have previously been exposed to a low dose of a true carcinogen ( known as an initiator ) . |
| 28 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 29 | They are not free-running — they are stabilized to a 24-hour day . |
| 30 | We could implement the same architecture in a number of ways , and some ranges of computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) are designed to a common architecture but with a radically different physical implementation for each model . |