Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word ‘ only ’ is important , for the protection is thereby confined to cases in which the defendant commits no other , incidental tort to procure the breach of contract . |
| 2 | Your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of a defect is expressly limited to replacement of the diskette as provided above . |
| 3 | She is slowly coming to terms with her past and exorcising the ghosts . |
| 4 | Thus , they are all particularly clearly in play at moments like ‘ heart has wings ’ ( bar 5 ) , where a rhythmic stretching-out makes the voice try to fly , while at the same time it is poignantly connected to earth by a descending glissando on the last note ; and the ‘ how the ghost of you clings ’ phrase , which is given a strikingly tremulous ‘ clings ’ . |
| 5 | First , I do not take the view that the recovery of money paid under duress other than to the person is necessarily limited to duress to goods falling within one of the categories hitherto established by the English cases . |
| 6 | At present , the allowance is only paid to people under the age of 80 . |
| 7 | The degree is only awarded to Heads of state and royalty . |
| 8 | The pre-tax figure was above City expectations and gave evidence that the bank is finally coming to grips with its bad-debt problem . |
| 9 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 10 | Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings . |
| 11 | If incorrectly fitted , it is soon ripped to bits with even gentle off roading . |
| 12 | But is n't it er true according the reports in the financial times , that the government at this moment is planning to withdraw Britain from the I L O. Precisely because the I L O has censured Britain a censure that is normally a sanction that is normally applied to countries like Haiti and North Korea . |
| 13 | Still , it is largely left to material from church archives to suggest the use of records in the vernacular on a considerable scale . |
| 14 | For the detailed discussion of theories that have been advanced concerning the relationship of the fabliaux to these slightly earlier Latin works , the reader is best directed to studies by Edmund Faral , Jürgen Beyer and Peter Dronke , and responses in the books of Ménard and Muscatine . |
| 15 | The mathematical singularity arises because the set of coordinates imposed everywhere is best suited to regions of small curvature . |
| 16 | Most attention is usually given to correlations of the same component of velocity at points separated in a direction either parallel to that velocity component ( Fig. 19.4(b) ) or perpendicular to it ( Fig. 19.4(c) ) . |
| 17 | Although the term censorship is usually applied to instances of government interference in programme making , Brittan uses it much more broadly to include such structural and institutional constraints as the IBA 's power to withdraw franchises and its right to vet schedules and programmes . |
| 18 | Their editorial content is usually limited to items of consumer interest and the editorial staff is kept to a minimum . |
| 19 | Ordinary rusting is usually ascribed to oxidation of ferrous ions in solutions by dissolved oxygen , and its presence is therefore a factor in corrosion although not one that is controllable . |
| 20 | Industrial policy is usually linked to promotion of exports rather than the protection of the domestic market per se . |
| 21 | Newborn screening for genetic and other disorders is usually confined to diseases for which there is treatment — either a change of diet ( as in phenylketonuria and galactosaemia ) or replacement therapy ( as in hypothyroidism ) — or in which there is a chance of affecting morbidity or mortality early in life , as occurs in the haemoglobinopathies ( particularly sickle cell disease ) . |
| 22 | In eukaryotes , in contrast , recombination is usually confined to members of a sexually reproducing species , although there are some facts that suggest that distant gene transfer is not wholly absent . |
| 23 | In Anglo-Saxon society it is usually confined to greetings between men and women who , are socially , but not sexually , intimate . |
| 24 | These contacts are widely reported to improve students ' motivation , and all the more so within Compact where achievement of student goals is directly linked to offers of employment . |
| 25 | Couples , second in the Sony rankings to Faldo , is still coming to terms with the adulation heaped on him after Augusta but is prepared to run the gauntlet again if it means winning a second Major . |
| 26 | This is when the pupil is still coming to terms with using a low vision aid and is not yet skilful in its use , but needs to read text and notes that are too advanced in content to be available in the large print of junior and early reading books . |
| 27 | The local community is still coming to terms with the loss of the Trident contract four months ago . |
| 28 | The word processing market is rapidly coming to terms with desktop publishing , particularly on the PC . |
| 29 | ‘ Liam Devlin , if it is Devlin they choose , is hardly going to parachute into the courtyard at St Mary 's Priory tomorrow night , Jack , and if he did , so what ? |
| 30 | Now Giggs is quickly coming to terms with the facts of life . |