Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If a clone has also been used as a probe then the program also checks if the probe and clone are assigned to the same contig .
2 What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion .
3 Erm the the public at large in Selby district have er been consulted to the same degree that that that all er districts were involved in the Greater York study .
4 Provided atomic individuals are mapped to the same role-slot in one representation , then plural reference is possible , and provided they map to different role-slots in another ( simultaneously ) , then singular references are possible .
5 A large number of lower attainers treat decimals as whole numbers , a strategy that " works ' when they are written to the same number of decimal places .
6 Had the numbers been written to the same number of decimal places all those ignoring decimal Points would have got the correct answers , producing artificially high success rates .
7 We 're attracted to the same sort of subject matter ; I think that 's it is n't it ?
8 It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously .
9 It ‘ has not been reflected to the same extent in the fortunes of the chemical industry ’ reported Richard Freeman , ICI 's chief economist and chairman of the CIA Economic Appraisal Committee and Cefic 's Economic Outlook Working Party .
10 Both plans are drawn to the same scale .
11 The scale of values used to draw a graph is very important if you are to read it accurately , Look at the same advertising graphs again , this time both are drawn to the same scale .
12 Where bank affairs are closely tied to the fortunes of their leading customers through shared group affiliation , the lending bank and the borrowing company are bound to the same fate which makes unilateral changes in loan terms much less likely .
13 The ( AC ) and ( GT ) tracts are protected to the same extent , even though bleomycin shows no cleavage of the AC regions .
14 The Art Newspaper 's sources in Russia have , however , confirmed that Ivan 's treasure has been found to the same extent as the Loch Ness monster .
15 The detail , then , is in this sense gratuitous , but it has its effect : Wilekin buys Margery with the same money that Dame Sirith can use to buy animals ; the bargains , and the items bought , are reduced to the same level .
16 The receptors are linked to the same area of the brain as the eyes , and so the fish can probably visualise these electric patterns , although they would only form a crude , shadowy image .
17 The tiled roof over the single south aisle was stripped off and partly replaced with bronze-coloured aluminium glazing bars framing bronze-tinted ‘ anti-sun ’ glass , the upper panels of which are laid to the same slope as the original roof , the lower panels producing a range of shallow vertical windows , the combination of which gives ‘ conservatory ’ lighting to the first floor flats ( Plate 23 ) .
18 The team studied one aspect of consistency — consistency across time by constructing parallel tests * to be given to the same group of pupils on different occasions .
19 But he conceded that rising gas prices , while the cost of coal was falling , could mean further developments of gas-fired stations may not be justified to the same extent in future .
20 At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult .
21 It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other .
22 Similarly , the two lexical units represented by brilliant in John is brilliant and This is a brilliant book are to be assigned to the same lexeme , the evidence being the recurrence of the relation with confused , angry , bitter , etc .
23 For instance , there is no spectrum connecting the two senses of expire , so their lexical units would not be assigned to the same lexeme .
24 In such cases , the recurrent relationship must be simultaneously grammatical and semantic if the units are to be assigned to the same lexeme .
25 A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand .
26 The effect of this endorsement is that in the event of a claim where the sum insured is inadequate , any payment would be limited to the same proportion which the sum insured bears to the value of the property at the time of the loss .
27 If proceedings have been issued you may be required to contribute to the Defendants ' legal costs , but this will usually be limited to the same amount that you contributed to the Legal Aid Board in respect of your own legal costs .
28 In the event of such disclosure will obtain from such third parties ' duly binding agreements to maintain in confidence the information to be disclosed to the same extent at least as is so bound hereunder .
29 ( 4 ) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contact and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director [ but he shall not be entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director ] .
30 ( 4 ) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contact and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director [ but he shall not be entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director ] .
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