Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 2 | But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so . |
| 3 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 4 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 5 | We found a similar trend in a previous study in Hertfordshire , the only other study in which a group of people has been traced from birth to death . |
| 6 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 7 | None of them had been treated before admission to hospital , and none had any other medical disorders . |
| 8 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 9 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 10 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
| 11 | This requirement has already been explained in relation to section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act ( paragraphs 10–19 to 10–21 above ) . |
| 12 | It has been developed in response to customer demand and requests from Branch Banking Division for a more streamlined system . |
| 13 | All this concerns Aquitaine because Earl Reginald 's eldest daughter , Sarah , had been given in marriage to Aimar of Limoges while he was a minor in Henry II 's custody . |
| 14 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 15 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 16 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 17 | These issues are addressed in relation to media coverage of disorderly episodes referred to in earlier chapters . |
| 18 | Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time . |
| 19 | at Maldon has been recommended for approval to BS 5750 Part 2 ( ISO 9002 ) . |
| 20 | Hughes and Wilkin ( 1985 ) point out that the move towards integration in the community of mentally handicapped and mentally ill people has not been paralleled in relation to dementia . |
| 21 | Licence and the exercise of a right of distress are two common defences to an action for conversion but these have already been considered in relation to trespass to land . |
| 22 | The price is still £149 but the previous virus update service has been downgraded from monthly to quarterly intervals . |
| 23 | FIVE men have been committed for trial to Portsmouth Crown Court on charges relating to an alleged incident involving violence at The Queen , Greatham , on New Year 's Eve . |
| 24 | Clusters have been designed in response to requests from secondary schools , which felt they needed help in guiding students to make coherent choices from the National Certificate catalogue . |
| 25 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 26 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 27 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 28 | It is likely too that the provision for value had originally been framed in relation to purchase for value , for otherwise there is no good reason why Ulpian should be concerned with fitting other legal relationships into the same pattern as sale . |
| 29 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 30 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |