Example sentences of "be [verb] to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head is an important part of a pint of beer and if beer is dispensed in the way that he is advocating through the implementation of section 43 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 , the taste , texture and colour of cask-conditioned beer could be altered to the detriment of the discerning beer-drinking public . |
| 2 | Perhaps not surprisingly , the ‘ new ’ criminologists insisted that attention should be redirected to the definers of crime . |
| 3 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 4 | The fourth cause of the interest in citizenship may be traced to the nervousness in some Conservative quarters about political education and the complementary belief that the schools were failing to produce ‘ good citizens ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe that the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organisation brings out the great energies and talents of its people . |
| 6 | Much of their interest can be traced to the persistence of Friedrich Christians , the chairman of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Bank . |
| 7 | A series of strange events have happened in the building which can be traced to the ghost of an old railwayman , and more recently the spirit of an art student who unfortunately got hooked on hard drugs , which combined with drink killed him after he had attended the celebration party to launch the Horizon Recording Studio . |
| 8 | It is rather to be traced to the survival of feudal notions of lordship . |
| 9 | The fact that the definitions of these terms are extremely murky can in part be traced to the notion of pertinent effects . |
| 10 | Since the demand for labour is a decreasing function of the real wage rate and the supply of labour is ( perhaps ) an increasing function of the real wage rate , they argued that the origins of general unemployment could be traced to the maintenance of a real wage rate , w 1 , which exceeded the market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 11 | The economy of phrase and the abrupt transitions of a Horatian ode can generally be traced to the demands of an intricate governing metre . |
| 12 | The origins of an organised market in the debt of the government can be traced to the end of the seventeenth century and during the following hundred years the growth of the Stock Exchange itself was closely bound up with the growth of government debt . |
| 13 | This basic fact should be borne in mind when reading ideologically biased accounts of the benefits following upon Russian occupation for , in the words of the same writer on the hunting peoples , ‘ In every well-documented instance , cases of hardship may be traced to the intervention of modern intruders . ’ |
| 14 | No other warranties or conditions to such effect may be implied except insofar as they may be annexed to the contract by custom or trade usage ( s14(4) of SGA 1979 , ss4(7) , 9(7) of SGSA 1982 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Our view is the recovery will probably now be delayed to the end of 1991 . ’ |
| 16 | Kite and team identity must be relayed to the spectators with live-wire intensity . |
| 17 | The 28 days for Courtney 's case to be referred to the Court of Appeal runs out on Monday . |
| 18 | Does the Minister agree that the next time one of these offenders comes before the courts for sentencing , if the sentence does not contain a deterrent element , bearing in mind the increase in this type of crime , it would be wise for the Home Office to seek the guidance of the Attorney-General so that the sentence can be referred to the Court of Appeal , which could then lay down a guideline sentence for this type of crime which contains a deterrent element ? |
| 19 | The UK Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker , announced on Sept. 17 that the case of Judith Ward , sentenced to life imprisonment at Wakefield Crown Court in 1974 for the IRA bombing of a coach carrying soldiers and their families on the M62 motorway in Yorkshire [ see pp. 26873-74 ] , would be referred to the Court of Appeal . |
| 20 | Failing that , the case will be referred to the court by the commission , or by the Government , or be decided by a committee of ministers . |
| 21 | Most allegations of breach of privilege or contempt end there , but if it appears to the Speaker that there has been a prima facie breach of privilege , the matter will be referred to the Committee of Privileges , the function of which is to receive evidence , determine whether , in its view , a breach or contempt has occurred and , if so , report to this effect to the House with any recommendations thought fit . |
| 22 | If so , the House has the opportunity to consider whether the matter should be referred to the Committee of Privileges . |
| 23 | A panel appointed to consider the scheme will recommend to that committee that the planning application should be referred to the Secretary of State . |
| 24 | One solution is a clause which says that the question of categorising disputes in contracts where there are two different modes of dispute resolution is itself to be referred to the expert for final decision . |
| 25 | For instance , some building leases encountered in practice provide that " any … dispute … in any way relating to the execution of the project shall be referred to the decision of an independent surveyor ( acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator ) … |
| 26 | ( H ) All differences arising out of this Agreement shall be referred to the arbitration of some person to be appointed by both parties , or , if they can not agree , to the arbitration of a person to be appointed jointly by the Chairman of the Accident Offices Association and the Chairman of Lloyds Motor Underwriters Association . |
| 27 | Experiments showed that , in fact , " facial vision " is nothing to do with touch or the front of the face , although the sensation may be referred to the front of the face , like the referred pain in a phantom ( severed ) limb . |
| 28 | Planning permission can either be complete in itself , normally referred to as ‘ full ’ permission or can require further details to be referred to the authority for approval . |
| 29 | One could perhaps specify further : it was normal for disputes in Ireland to be referred to the Congregation of Propaganda , as Ireland , being part of a protestant state , fell under its jurisdiction . |
| 30 | Thus , consideration should be given to the way in which policy goals may be effectively translated into political and legal reality , based on both a realistic perception of the obstacles that have to be overcome and an accurate assessment of the contribution which lawyers and litigation may make in promoting desirable social change . |