Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tested the assumption that most patients with presenile Alzheimer 's disease are eventually admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 2 | In addition , the semantic analyser has since been successfully applied to other text recognition applications ( notably OCR systems ) . |
| 3 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 4 | Conditions then vary from those in which the cultural institutions and their producers are wholly subordinated to general state policy — a condition often made harsher by full or attempted monopoly of all means of cultural production — to more nuanced situations in which , while general policy direction is exercised , the practical relations are not significantly different from those in modern patronal and intermediate bodies , which of course also , in varying ways , have general policy directions in accordance with the social order in which they are working . |
| 5 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 6 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 7 | In addition , her long-established methods of classroom organisation are better suited to whole-class teaching . |
| 8 | Third , the time and resources taken to prepare , administer and mark the tests are better devoted to real education ; |
| 9 | But and I are so used to early rising now that we were awake betimes as usual . |
| 10 | And as you would expect in a town of enterprise , some of these buildings have been sensibly adapted to modern use . |
| 11 | Like job production , batches are normally made to individual customer requirements , but sometimes batches are produced in anticipation of orders . |
| 12 | Large scale developments of this kind are normally submitted to public inquiry in Britain , but in the case of the Channel Tunnel the Hybrid Bill procedure was chosen . |
| 13 | If you have a particular task in mind it may be that a 2.4 volt drill will perform quite adequately , although as a general rule the lower voltage drills are best suited to small diameter pilot drilling and countersinking . |
| 14 | Until Livingstone , various Right-On pet publishing and campaigning projects had been largely confined to tedious discussion documents and papers wrangled over at interminable meetings . |
| 15 | Gun-mikes are generally restricted to outdoor use ; indoors , sound reflections off walls defeat the directional characteristics to a large extent . |
| 16 | If you are already working to maximum efficiency , then great ! |
| 17 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 18 | Well , we have seen electrical cars in the form of milk floats for many years , and of course they 're particularly suited to intermittent use , stopping and starting every few yards . |
| 19 | That shows that the Government are totally committed to encouraging academia and industry to work together in that excellent and successful programme . |
| 20 | When a government is weak and under pressure and when policies are seen to be failing , little authority may attach to a Prime Minister and the advantages of office are rapidly turned to personal disadvantage . |
| 21 | Many of these changes have been directly related to progressive taxation , transfer payments and high levels of employment . |
| 22 | Car thieves are usually young and unused to driving the particular car that they have taken , and they are usually attracted to high performance cars . |
| 23 | One might interpret this in relation to stronger group orientation , as expected of those who are field-dependent , nevertheless the task might be expected to be easier for those who are more used to visual processing . |
| 24 | As we think about it , a major cause of personal unhappiness in our lives arises from the ways in which we are quickly aroused to emotional resentment and prejudice against other people . |
| 25 | Words in narrative form are hardly suited to choral use , though they can occasionally find their place in some kind of chanting , or may be spoken by a narrator or part of a choir . |
| 26 | The reasons for this are complex , and are partly related to modern scholarship and partly connected to an over-rationalistic view of redemption in both Catholic and Protestant denominations ( both of which I will elucidate towards the end of this chapter ) . |
| 27 | In an interview on March 24 , Shaposhnikov admitted that the Transcaucasus military district and the Caspian naval flotilla had been temporarily transferred to Russian jurisdiction . |
| 28 | Thus the proportion of secondary school children going to grammar schools has always been positively related to social class . |
| 29 | Insects that winter on land , under snow , among rocks and vegetation or in soil are similarly exposed to extreme cold . |
| 30 | The authors counsel that one should only use indicators which yield convergent results , and they make the useful point that ‘ while some of the output indicators are clearly linked to scientific production , their links with scientific progress are more complex and problematic . ’ |