Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly , no doubt , because teacher education in language is mostly tied to the teaching of particular languages , or to other disciplines like psychology or sociology where language is not the central focus . |
| 2 | This is not really a case of excluding the warranties which would otherwise be implied by the relevant legislation , but rather one of making sure that the warranty given is properly tailored to the subject matter of the contract . |
| 3 | In either case , always check that the leash is properly attached to the collar . |
| 4 | Indeed the major criticism is properly addressed to the advocates of nationalisation , who had given far too little attention to the general question of pricing and investment rules by which the public sector should operate . |
| 5 | Forgetfulness proves deadly because it strikes deep into the delicate area where conscience registers sin and where each person is most attuned to the nuances of relationship . |
| 6 | This is because the experiment is most suited to the assumptions that natural scientists have traditionally made about what they are studying . |
| 7 | God-like , Niall flings himself on to his adoring audience , sinks beneath the waves and is eventually restored to the stage in time for the anti-rap encore of ‘ Where 's Me Jumper ’ . |
| 8 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 9 | Mone-tarization is thereby tied to the rise of industrialization and bureaucracy . |
| 10 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 11 | The lower jaw of these fish is loosely slung to the brain case so that they had a very wide ‘ gape ’ . |
| 12 | It is suggested that the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Eurocopy case is the more equitable solution , particularly in circumstances where a disclosure is expressly brought to the attention of the vendor before completion but is not actually incorporated in the final disclosure letter . |
| 13 | A report is duly sent to the LIFESPAN manager when any such breaches of practice occur . |
| 14 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |
| 15 | KALIBER IS SUCCESSFULLY EXPORTED TO THE USA |
| 16 | This implies that the player A's type is slowly revealed to the B t 's , since the least squares projection ( 4 ) converges in probability to z if the Ct 's are static . |
| 17 | Therefore the possibility of there being a natural monopoly is intimately related to the assumptions regarding potential entrant behaviour . |
| 18 | The way a person comes into contact with heroin , is offered it , and accepts it , is intimately related to the heroin use of the significant others in that person 's life . |
| 19 | When appropriate , it is gently suggested to the organisers that they should themselves donate an agreed percentage of their takings to my chosen charity for the year . |
| 20 | Retaining a trickle of power through the flare reduces the rate of descent to near zero , and the aircraft is gently lowered to the surface in the almost-level planing altitude . |
| 21 | The mention of these two blockbuster names ought not to imply , however , that the collecting of contemporary fiction is necessarily allied to the bestseller lists : booksellers may rest assured that not one of the mega-thousands of Jilly Coopers , Jeffrey Archers , Wilbur Smiths or Catherine Cooksons will go to a collector , while a surprising number of Dennis Potters , Alan Bennetts , Kingsley Amises , William Boyds , Seamus Heaneys and Alan Ayckbourns will . |
| 22 | It is the media department of the agency that is constantly exposed to the approaches of media salespeople , who may well be offering interesting new ideas — occasionally . |
| 23 | Prescribed themes can be introduced in any order but whatever is studied in history is constantly related to the time-line ( see Figure 2.5 for one example ) . |
| 24 | Reference is constantly made to the president 's budget and the chief executive is held responsible for the consequences of budgetary policy , especially by members of the opposition party in Congress . |
| 25 | Sometimes it is unclear whether misconduct is sufficiently linked to the job to entitle the employer to take disciplinary action . |
| 26 | The Artistic Merit Cup is annually awarded to the piece of marquetry that , presumably , stands best as a piece of interpretive art . |
| 27 | The EEC 's attitude is somewhat baffling to the Višegrad trade negotiators : it lectures them on the merits of free trade , while closing its own markets . |
| 28 | The right to preach within the Mass is jealously reserved to the clergy , whereas members of the laity often prove to be endowed with this charism . |
| 29 | The attribute unc on the other hand , associates the gear-lever to the passenger compartment and is thus an external association , as is unc which is only applied to the assembly ( not to individual parts ) . |
| 30 | Autonomy on the part of employees is only tolerated to the extent that it contributes to productivity and profitability . |