Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 2 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 3 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
| 4 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 5 | Consequently , Foucault remarked ( p 151-152 ) : " Time measured and paid must also be time without impurities or defects ; a time of good quality throughout which the body is constantly applied to its exercise … |
| 6 | By the same token , teaching them is important , but only if it is constantly related to their purpose within religions . |
| 7 | The earl , so Sir Philip informed me , is greatly attached to your boy . |
| 8 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 9 | He mentioned he is also involved in a charity exercise for King Hospital — which is obviously linked to his family nearby . |
| 10 | Among adult insects , an appendage is normally attached to its segment between the pleuron of its side and the sternum . |
| 11 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 12 | Although in Britain this big yellow-red is largely confined to its home region , it has spread abroad , like the Ruby of northern Devon , and seems to be much better appreciated overseas ; it has become established in North America , Australia and New Zealand , South America , and perhaps above all in South Africa , whither it was first exported in 1897 . |
| 13 | The overall aim is always to add to our understanding of the complex and various nature of the English of the British Isles . |
| 14 | This is true only in the sense that the significance of crime is directly related to its frequency ; the bulk of the evidence is found in narrative form . |
| 15 | Second , each record can be stored at an address that is directly related to its key , e.g. at the address which is the same as the key ( record 20 in address 20 and so on ) . |
| 16 | In the Raman , the intensity of a peak due to a given species is directly related to its concentration . |
| 17 | Some English academics are genuinely at home with them , in a way that is directly related to their familiarity with French intellectual culture . |
| 18 | The question , ‘ Are all men evil ? ’ is directly related to my tutorial paper as this is the main theme which is ongoing throughout this book . |
| 19 | He is totally dedicated to his calling , his art , and spares no expense to fulfil it . |
| 20 | The point is clear : if the hon. Gentleman feels that he is totally committed to his mandate and that he has not changed his opinion , he should ask the electors of Dunfermline , not me . |
| 21 | The government is still sticking to its account , which names 10 dead and a further 37 detained . |
| 22 | Leapor , a poor woman , could not dress to advantage ; indeed , her employers ' low regard for her as a servant is partly related to her appearance . |
| 23 | Beyond this , the engine is carefully crated to its customer . |
| 24 | When paying for your wine , you do n't need to draw the assistant 's attention to the Multibuy the saving is automatically credited to your bill , even if the bottles are not entered into the till consecutively . |
| 25 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 26 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 27 | It makes sense to take advantage of Saver Plus rates by ensuring that any spare cash in your Current Account is regularly swept to your Saver Plus . |
| 28 | I 'm , I 'm under pressure for two decisions , Paul is here to speak to his paper and has to be in Sandwell at two o'clock , and I 'm told that the canteen closes at one thirty . |
| 29 | While it is true , as Table 5.1 showed , that the distribution of elderly people between different types of household is strongly correlated to their age , the link between household type and age is not a simple causal one . |
| 30 | The genitive is grammatically subordinated to its head word , eg the ship 's captain . |