Example sentences of "are [verb] to the [det] [noun] " 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 And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work .
3 Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) .
4 this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world .
5 By and large , the soil-dwelling enemies of the rose are confined to the several kinds of chafer .
6 EXTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which SCOTVEC ensures that , on a national basis , centres are operating to the same standard .
7 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 .
8 The questions in the checklist are related to the same concepts as in the full SCAN event-by-event analysis , but the pace is more relaxed ( see 6A and 6E ) .
9 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 .
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 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 .
15 We will make sure , too , that imports are reduced to the same levels as they were under the Labour Government .
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 All wires are cut to the same length
19 Our lives are cut to the same pattern , touching here , overlapping there , and thus forming rich convolutions of colour and shape .
20 It would be helpful , therefore , for Gould and colleagues to report the number of men with microalbuminuria in both samples and the size of the difference in height between men in this group and men without albuminuria when the means for both groups are standardised to the same age distribution .
21 He also makes the distinction between lexical and conceptual collocations ; the latter being word pairs that co-occur simply because they are associated to the same context or topic ( e.g. , ’ bomb ’ and ’ soldier ’ , ’ trouble ’ and ’ problem ’ , etc . ) .
22 Not all immigrants are encapsulated to the same extent .
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