Example sentences of "[pron] is [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put the discussion into context , responsibility for providing further education in the United Kingdom is divided between three hierarchical levels , with the central government Department of Education and Science having overall responsibility , which is devolved to Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) each accountable for the education provision in specified geographical areas . |
| 2 | Silos are used to store fresh grass which is fed to cattle in the cool winter months when grass stops growing . |
| 3 | Fundamentalism , then , is a simple expression of a faith which is said to enshrine the sacred tenets of a belief-structure . |
| 4 | Another target for attack is City pressure for short-term profit flow , which is said to handicap industry 's ability to invest in plant and equipment and R&D . |
| 5 | It requires , in all but the most self-evident cases , the recognition that the content which is given to concepts such as proportionality will be dependent upon the identification of the particular political theory which is said to warrant the conclusion which is being drawn . |
| 6 | The rifle is one of two AK47 's used in the attacks carried out by the Ardoyne IRA unit which is believed to number up to 18 . |
| 7 | that I would also put it on in relation to your , to , to , to , to , to your Lordship and to considering the matter in interim , your Lordship has er , erm , er heard er the information that had been put forward er by the society , you have seen the er information about the position the commission has taken , your Lordship knows that the commission was informed about both the act and all the relevant byelaws in the present case , the precursored , the central fund byelaw was informally proved by the commission Mrs has sworn on affidavit that the society has never been given any indication that the matters in issue in the European Law Defence are contrary to competition rules and your Lordship also has the answer by the commission to the European parliament which is exhibited to Mrs affidavit and which I took your Lordship to earlier and of which judicial note can be taken by virtual section three , two of the European communities act , so my Lord we say that there is already a body of information which provides a basis if one has to consider what should be done in the interim of saying that in the interim the application of the act and the application for byelaws should be maintained , the third element my Lord is the intimate link between the recoveries of money for the central fund , er under the byelaw and the implementation of the United Kingdom 's operations under directive seventy three , two , three , nine , we 've been over this before my Lord erm , my Lord is , is aware of the intimate link er between the er recovery of monies to central fund , the maintenance solvency and the paying of policy holders . |
| 8 | The mechanism of the protective function may be as follows : cholesterol is mobilised from the arterial wall by HDL 3 which is converted to HDL 2 by this process of cholesterol enrichment . |
| 9 | Yellow-green fruit and vegetables such as carrots , apricots and water melon , broccoli and other leafy greens , are rich in beta-carotene , which is converted to vitamin A by the body . |
| 10 | Following a nuclear weapons test the residence time of the radionuclides released depends upon the height to which the radioactive cloud rises ( which is related to explosion yield ) , its latitude of detonation ( the height of the tropopause being lower in the polar regions than near the equator ) , the size of the radioactive aerosols , and whether the radionuclides are in gaseous or particle form . |
| 11 | They 're actually paid a training allowance , which is related to income support . |
| 12 | The success of the Peronist movement and , to a lesser extent , of Vargas and Cárdenas , in gaining widespread acceptance for their visions of national unity can not be explained without reference to a second major element of the Latin American political tradition which is related to corporatism and which also cuts across class-based Marxist politics : caudillismo , and its modern corollary , populism . |
| 13 | The SOED mainly funds research which is related to Government policy concerns but a small proportion of the budget is reserved to fund ideas which come from the research community . |
| 14 | The rate of vibration of the vocal cords — something which is physically measurable , and which is related to activity on the part of the speaker — is the fundamental frequency of voiced sounds , and should not be called ‘ pitch ’ . |
| 15 | The UK markets use a concept called modified duration ( also known as volatility ) , which is related to duration as follows : where MD = modified duration in years . |
| 16 | Firstly , in addition to looking for a general description of the information available in the films , this study was concerned particularly with information which is related to risks and potential risks in the scenes . |
| 17 | And that then gives us this spiral of improvement which is bound to impact on everything that we do . |
| 18 | By economic necessity this pattern will have to be accommodated within a structure which is attuned to decentralisation so there will inevitably be more delegation even to the governors of the smaller schools . |
| 19 | The most significant of these is schistosomiasis ( bilharzia ) , a debilitating disease that can cause liver fibrosis and bladder cancer , which is transmitted to humans by a parasitic worm that requires water-snails as an intermediate host . |
| 20 | Denton has classified the various forms of aid to industry under three headings : general incentives provided under various programmes to all industrial firms in all parts of the country ; industrial restructuring which again is universal in scope and geographical area and which is intended to encourage industrial efficiency ; and regional aid which is limited to firms in the deprived regions of the country . |
| 21 | There is a progressive restriction of the anterior domain of expression which is limited to rhombomere 4 in the hindbrain by 9.5 d.p.c . |
| 22 | The language of person which is applied to God is metaphorical , as discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 23 | The sensitised board — which is cut to size to fit the artwork — will be placed on top of it . |
| 24 | These are now made of fabric impregnated with a thermoplastic resin which is cut to size and shape , then heat-formed on the correct last for the upper . |
| 25 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 26 | An essential part of the Revised Higher is a decision-making exercise , which is linked to Part 1 of the syllabus . |
| 27 | There is a fire ’ into his computer which is linked to emergency services . |
| 28 | In the DM985m ( $112m ) deal , Allianz acquired 5% of AMB ; Munich Re , which is linked to Allianz through a large cross-shareholding , bought about 3% , bringing its total stake to 8.6% ; and Dresdner Bank , itself partly owned by Allianz , took another 3% , raising its share of AMB to 14% . |
| 29 | This is a memo to Caroline at Aiden Mouth Good evening Caroline , can I refer you to Aiden Mouth , invoice number A four hundred which is linked to invoice number one , nine , O , seven , six , paragraph invoice where total is one , sorry , seventeen thousand , one hundred and six kilos , of which Aran A R A N contributes twelve thousand , eight hundred and ninety two kilos , which is seventy five point three seven percent of the total weight , stop , in your invoice number A four hundred you have charged us the full charges , whereas we are only liable for seventy five point three seven percent of the New Zealand to U K charges , dash , am I not correct , question mark . |
| 30 | What has not been substantially deflected , however , is the practical assumption ( in teaching , if not in theory ) of an unchanging literary essence which is taken to inhere within some or other selection of English texts , irrespective of any introduction of parallel , contextual , or complementary studies . |