Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes in O 3 concentrations are predominantly confined to the latitude band of injections in July . |
| 2 | For lack of space these have previously been little shown to the public . |
| 3 | Some fresh-faced youth , who had not been properly introduced to the enemy , now had the nerve to try and take their place . |
| 4 | The greater absolute numbers of elderly people have been absorbed by the growing private sector despite a simultaneous collapse of long term provision in the NHS , and this has been widely attributed to the impact of the central government funding system for private residential care . |
| 5 | If there is any provision contained in these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements of which they form part which causes or would cause these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangement of which they form part to be subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 then that provision shall not take effect until the day after particulars of these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements ( as the case may be ) shall have been duly furnished to the Director General of Fair Trading pursuant to that Act . |
| 6 | the assent of the States members of the organisation to be bound by the relevant provisions of the treaty has been duly brought to the knowledge of the negotiating States and negotiating organisations . |
| 7 | Part of the reason for this is , again , the way in which women are effectively confined to the home at least for some part of their lives . |
| 8 | Cars and lorries in Britain are effectively subsidised to the tune of £20 million annually . |
| 9 | When Mr and Mrs Bloggs are eventually summoned to the teacher 's desk they are asked what they thought of the work . |
| 10 | The definitional overlap technique has been successfully applied to the problem of sense disambiguation [ Lesk , 1987 ] . |
| 11 | Few markers available currently fulfil all these criteria ( reviewed in 50 ) but some have been successfully applied to the mouse ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 12 | They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor . |
| 13 | The third group comprises the European fossils that are mostly attributed to the genus Dryopithecus . |
| 14 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 15 | However , such analysis has not been effectively related to the study of the ageing process from the point of view of the individual . |
| 16 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 17 | The curriculum is not seen in terms of constant amelioration of handicapping conditions , but rather in terms of making up for deficiencies which are constantly imputed to the child . |
| 18 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 19 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 20 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 21 | In spite of the fact that since the Clean Air Act of 1956 , pollution caused by smoke has been greatly reduced to the benefit of those who live in the cities , we must not fool ourselves into thinking that there is no longer any problem . |
| 22 | Far from possessing the tact and sensitivity required to construct a harmonious relationship with the English church and restore Mary 's subjects ' confidence in the papacy , Paul was a rigid , inflexible pontiff who could hardly have been less suited to the task of cementing the reunion of England and Rome . |
| 23 | A view was expressed that merit would have been better attached to the group award , rather than to every individual unit . |
| 24 | So in allocating loans , banks are especially committed to the expansion of their more important customers and preferential terms are offered through lower interest rates or more flexible borrowing limits . |
| 25 | As well as being a threat to the ozone layer and human health , it is now thought that they are especially attracted to the wax coatings on conifer needles , reaching 100 times the concentration in the air . |
| 26 | In this case , however , the defence failed because although the auctioneer had regularly made reference to the fact that he did not guarantee the mileage of any car , he had not made an oral disclaimer before accepting bids on the particular car in question and the disclaimer in the written conditions of the auction sale had not been sufficiently brought to the attention of the buyer . |
| 27 | My own survey in Brighton indicates that GHQ scores and reported deterioration in health are highly related to the extent to which unemployed men can maintain the social contact , collective purpose , activity , time-structure and status that Jahoda identified . |
| 28 | They are made using precision alloys which are thermally matched to the temperature expansion characteristics of the substrate materials . |
| 29 | erm they 're rather like sort of mutations are randomly related to the gene from which the mutation took place , but now we 're talking about a whole species suddenly arising with a new randomly arranged set of traits , and then the wholesale direction of evolution erm is determined by selection favouring some species in competition with other species . |
| 30 | Any ringing would be detected by transducers ( e.g. piezoelectric crystals ) which are mechanically connected to the bar . |