Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it is the increase in product wages ( the real cost to the employer of hiring workers ) which makes the old machinery unprofitable and permits labour to be transferred to the new . |
| 2 | It called for more powers to be transferred to the European Commission and to the European Parliament , which would have the power to veto with a majority vote legislation proposed by the Council of Ministers . |
| 3 | In early January the Planning Commission started a review of large industrial projects with a view to allowing resources to be transferred to the agricultural sector . |
| 4 | Dobry 's proposal , in essence , was that the simple should be distinguished and treated expeditiously , though with the opportunity for some participation and with a safety channel to allow them to be transferred to the major category if this should prove appropriate . |
| 5 | If the matrimonial home is to be transferred to the sole name of the wife the mortgagee may be content to re-assign a life policy on the life of the husband to him , the mortgage on the property reverting to a repayment mortgage . |
| 6 | After talks with BR 's Chairman , Peter Parker , we agreed that the sensible way forward was for a new company , British Rail Investments , to be formed and for the subsidiaries to be transferred to the private sector , with the proceeds going to British Rail . |
| 7 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Authority over the Chernobyl power station was to be transferred to the Ukrainian government , and deputies accordingly voted to create a Ukrainian government department for nuclear safety and research . |
| 9 | In the event , an RVF advantage was generally observed implying , according to Moscovitch , that the letters presented to the LVF had to be transferred to the left hemisphere for processing . |
| 10 | A MENTALLY handicapped man who spent almost a month in Barlinnie Prison because there was nowhere else for him to go is to be transferred to the Royal National Hospital in Larbert today . |
| 11 | The social security funds spent upon residential care were to be transferred to the local authorities . |
| 12 | By the mid-seventeenth century it had become normal for the wealth of the old people to be transferred to the next generation when they retired , perhaps in their sixties , but for the retired couple to retain houseroom in the family home ; and in order to make disputes less likely , these retirement arrangements were increasingly recorded in deeds . |
| 13 | Where proceedings are pending in a county court , the county court or a judge of the High Court may order them to be transferred to the High Court or another county court provided that it is a court having bankruptcy jurisdiction ( r 7.11(2)-(4) ) . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) An action of which the value is £50,000 or more shall be tried in the High Court unless : ( a ) it is commenced in a county court and the county court does not consider that the action ought to be transferred to the High Court for trial ; or ( b ) the High Court considers that it ought to transfer the case to a county court for trial ( art 7(4) ) . |
| 15 | The High Court also has a general power under s 41 of the Act at any stage of the proceedings ( in addition to its powers to make prerogative orders ) to order the whole or part of any proceedings commenced in a county court , or previously transferred from the High Court to a county court under s 40 , to be transferred to the High Court . |
| 16 | It was believed that many of the functions of Clark Field — including the provision of transit facilities for special operations forces — were to be transferred to the Cubi Point Naval Air Station at Subic Bay . |
| 17 | Now that joint approach is expected to be extended to the 11 members of the Trans-Atlantic Agreement ( TAA ) , prompting the possibility of more trade for the port . |
| 18 | Will my hon. and learned Friend ensure that everything is done to enable food supplies to be extended to the Baltic states as well as to Russia ? |
| 19 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 20 | These survival mechanisms of the black family have to be extended to the black community generally in its economic life , education and social relations . |
| 21 | In this paper , I have argued that , contrary to the thinking of some of the major representatives of the tradition which distinguishes the public world from the private one , the notion of autonomy ought to be extended to the private sphere . |
| 22 | It could not stand alone because it had to be applied to the traditional concerns of physical geographers as outlined in the four previous chapters . |
| 23 | Experience of urban mission in other areas of the world needs to be applied to the European situation . |
| 24 | And having sanctified violence as a positive good , Bukharin then proceeded to argue for coercion to be applied to the working class also : |
| 25 | If it kept her awake all night , then it was only right that she should wake up Jack for fresh hot-water bottles to be applied to the afflicted areas . |
| 26 | How is an understanding of biological processes to be applied to the social world ? |
| 27 | ‘ It is riveting stuff , especially to be treated to the first performance of a production that has attracted such rave reviews . |
| 28 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 29 | Sabine suspected that the Baronne was already sufficiently indulged , but she allowed herself to be escorted to the grand chamber . |
| 30 | This is the Central Television Percy Thrower Trophy , very handsome trophy it is too and it 's going to be presented to the best gardener around here ; that 's after the break . |