Example sentences of "are [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cars and lorries in Britain are effectively subsidised to the tune of £20 million annually . |
| 4 | When Mr and Mrs Bloggs are eventually summoned to the teacher 's desk they are asked what they thought of the work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The third group comprises the European fossils that are mostly attributed to the genus Dryopithecus . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They are made using precision alloys which are thermally matched to the temperature expansion characteristics of the substrate materials . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Any ringing would be detected by transducers ( e.g. piezoelectric crystals ) which are mechanically connected to the bar . |
| 19 | The wrecks are less exposed to the weather than they might be , lying in the lee of a hill called , improbably , Mount Sutlej . |
| 20 | In this sense , the dictionary and its definitions are less suited to the recognition of domains that are more abstract or esoteric . |
| 21 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 22 | Companies such as Rank Xerox are so dedicated to the idea that they are inverting their organisation structures to ensure that the front-line troops — those who interface most closely with the customer become the focus of attention . |
| 23 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 24 | The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes . |
| 25 | If z describes market conditions which are only known to the incumbent , then the results above tell us that the entrants gradually get to learn the incumbent 's private information . |
| 26 | Many of the books are personally inscribed to the collector by the most famous authors of the century . |
| 27 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 28 | It is that the directors ' accountability should be to those who do not direct but who are nevertheless committed to the company . |
| 29 | Redefinitions of chronology are claimed to be part of the process of improvement of understanding , but may as easily be viewed as an infinite series of alternatives none of which are demonstrably correct unless they are somehow related to the reality of the society in question . |
| 30 | Hanging accessories , known as ‘ D ’ rings , are best fixed to the hardboard with rivets , which are secured by pushing through the ring and then through a hole made in the hardboard , before being split open with a hammer . |