Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accidentals are placed according to the emotional needs of the melody itself . |
| 2 | Weights are adjusted according to the following rule . |
| 3 | Second , when they are raised , they are resolved according to the simple criterion of political muscle power . |
| 4 | You will see that there are two parts to it — one in which the items have been sorted according to the geographical location ( ie by county name , alphabetically ) ; the other by service category . |
| 5 | The CRE 's findings and recommendations are expected to go to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , for approval and action if its inquiry upholds complaints that the region 's methods may be in breach of race relations and education law for failing to test in a child 's first language . |
| 6 | The surface is not subdivided in any way : cyclists are expected to keep to the left and to have consideration for walkers . |
| 7 | Information is available from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry ( HIPE ) on national bed-use rates by sex , age group and medical condition for non-psychiatric patients , where conditions are grouped according to the seventeen major Chapter headings of the International Classification of Diseases . |
| 8 | Products are grouped according to the principal benefit which customers perceive that their purchase will bring . |
| 9 | We live in a ‘ market economy ’ and many one time ‘ command economies ’ are endeavouring to change to the same arrangements . |
| 10 | It has been designed to respond to the rapid growth of banking and financial services both within the regions and at national and international level , and the increasing demand from banks , insurance companies , building societies and other financial institutions for relevant graduates . |
| 11 | The later levels ( 8–15 ) have been designed to correspond to the seven GCSE grade levels . |
| 12 | Two-syllable simple adjectives are stressed according to the same rule , giving : |
| 13 | When this operation has been done according to the conventional wisdom you then decide whether you like where you are apparently going to end up . |
| 14 | Over the past few years tremendous efforts have been made to explain to the outside world just what the Olefines business is all about and the reasons for flaring . |
| 15 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 16 | The main exception involves items made by the Christian Armenians , who occupied much of the Caucasus , eastern Anatolia and parts of Persia , which are dated according to the Gregorian calendar . |
| 17 | If two initially rather different cues are made to adhere to the same name or to closely similar names , then rather than being stretched apart the two cues might be forced closer together . |
| 18 | In cases where the normal rules in Stage II do not apply the entries in Section 3 are made according to the illustrated schedule in Figure 4.2 . |
| 19 | Unavoidable shortfalls of staffing levels are made known to the immediate manager . |
| 20 | All these conservatives sit at their conference saying what they 're going to do to the unemployed and the fraud and what have you ! |
| 21 | The experiences of other people who are in a similar situation are used to convey to the new group a sense of purpose and to reduce the feelings of helplessness and isolation which are often encountered . |
| 22 | Colloids are classified according to the original phases of their constituents . |
| 23 | Since dictionaries also contain information about the orthography ( i.e. spelling ) , phonology ( i.e. pronunciation ) and semantics ( i.e. meaning ) of words , terms such as ‘ mental dictionary ’ , ‘ internal lexicon ’ or ‘ mental lexicon ’ have been used to refer to the internalised system of knowledge we use when we perceive or produce words . |
| 24 | For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) . |
| 25 | If he thinks we are going to return to the old trick of frightening people into the ballot box by raising red bogeys or fascist bogeys , then he is sadly mistaken , ’ he said in an interview on BBC Breakfast News . |
| 26 | The price wars that have left them bleeding and dying in the personal computer field this year are going to spread to the margin-rich personal computer server , Computer Reseller News predicts . |
| 27 | Scotland are aiming to return to the top division after being relegated in Manchester in 1989 . |
| 28 | They are invited to write to the Principal Librarian to arrange a postal loan service . |
| 29 | As in Britain , French newspapers are having to respond to the growing demand for advertising space by adding extra pages . |
| 30 | People mainly fish for trout and salmon but other fish have been known to attract to the artificial flies . |