Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head is an important part of a pint of beer and if beer is dispensed in the way that he is advocating through the implementation of section 43 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 , the taste , texture and colour of cask-conditioned beer could be altered to the detriment of the discerning beer-drinking public . |
| 2 | The boxes both have six SIMM slots and can be incremented to a maximum 96Mb. +1 408 432–0292 |
| 3 | Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) . |
| 4 | In particular its authority should be recognized to the extent necessary to enable it to secure goals , which individuals have reason to secure , for which social co-ordination is necessary or helpful , and where this is the most promising way of achieving them . |
| 5 | Perhaps not surprisingly , the ‘ new ’ criminologists insisted that attention should be redirected to the definers of crime . |
| 6 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 7 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 8 | It therefore seems that the way will be eased to the continuing destruction of what is left of wild nature in Britain , to serve the open-ended demands of development and growth . |
| 9 | The reasons for a separation and its temporary nature can be explained to a ten-year-old child , so that anxiety can again be minimised . |
| 10 | This must be explained to a client at this early stage , because many do not understand the requirement for a deposit , and many do not have the full 10% available . |
| 11 | From a plan , lately begun by another person who wished to assist Mr. Green , he hopes he shall not be injured in the public opinion , as the difference between a plan made from an actual survey , with accurate instruments , and conducted upon principles true in theory ( which will be explained to every scientific enquirer ) and one made by striding , is too palpable to escape observations . ’ |
| 12 | These difficulties have to be explained to the carer , as they can be hard to understand . |
| 13 | The reason for prescribing this medication , and the plan for its use should be explained to the patient and agreed upon before a prescription is supplied . |
| 14 | The modern pressures on a clergy family do not seem to be explained to the laity . |
| 15 | Where there is delay , the reason must be explained to the person waiting . |
| 16 | There are identifiable skills which the teacher knows and which need to be explained to the children and practised so that they are well equipped for life . |
| 17 | These may all be traced to a reluctance to consider the managerial function which provides the context for the tasks , activities and behaviour of individual managers [ Hales ( 1986 ) ] . |
| 18 | At a later stage , if errors are found in the procedure 's performance which can not be traced to a falling within the local system , it may be necessary to examine these influencing factors further , for instance the design of the form might be inadequate for the accurate recording of information , a factor outside the direct control of the section involved . |
| 19 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 20 | The origin of the theory of sexual selection can be traced to a peacock — or , rather , a peahen owned by Lady Tynte . |
| 21 | These acts can be traced to a plethora of practices which encourage sexually aggressive behaviour in men and boys , in a context in which there are few effective sanctions . |
| 22 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 23 | Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger . |
| 24 | In every one of the cases to which your Lordships have been referred where such dicta appear , the source from which the evidence sought to be excluded had been obtained has been the defendant himself or ( in some of the search cases ) premises occupied by him ; and the dicta can be traced to a common ancestor in Lord Goddard 's statement in Kuruma v. The Queen [ 1955 ] A.C. 197 which I have already cited . |
| 25 | Faults can range from the merely inconvenient , when water spills out of sagging or blocked gutters on to unsuspecting people underneath , to the more serious problem of penetrating damp , where peeling decorations and damp patches inside the house can often be traced to a leaking gutter or downpipe outside . |
| 26 | Indeed much of the weakness of recent educational research can be traced to a failure to take account of such factors . |
| 27 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 28 | Puddephat 's anger , the paper said , could be traced to a most unflattering review of his new book , written by Sykes , in the TLS . |
| 29 | These policies should be particularly aimed at adjusting the ratio of the nominal stock of money to the absolute price level since , following Modigliani ( 1944 ) , the origins of general excess supply can be traced to a ‘ misalignment ’ between the money stock and the levels of money wages and prices . |
| 30 | The downfall of Gen Noriega can be traced to the brutal killing of the opposition leader , Hugo Spadafora , found beheaded in 1985 . |