Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the semantic analyser has since been successfully applied to other text recognition applications ( notably OCR systems ) . |
| 2 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 3 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 4 | This had all been properly reported to Eighth Army . |
| 5 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 6 | Instead , it has rightly be forcibly restored to being a surprise element . |
| 7 | Attention would only be conditionally offered to Ollie if Stan was in the room , and if the family were enjoying a quiet cuddle with Stan , he would have to be rejected in favour of Ollie if he appeared . |
| 8 | Although Pountney 's firm claimed an ancestry dating back to 1652 it can only be accurately traced to 1786 when premises at Temple Back ( 9 Water Lane ) were run by one Joseph Ring . |
| 9 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |
| 10 | It is consistent with Lord Alverstone C.J. 's remarks at p. 395 , cited above , that if she had not done so , i.e. , if the transaction had not been properly explained to her , the security would not have been enforceable . |
| 11 | She sued the plaintiff in battery , on the ground that she had not truly consented to the operation , as its effect had not been properly explained to her . |
| 12 | Some fresh-faced youth , who had not been properly introduced to the enemy , now had the nerve to try and take their place . |
| 13 | However , such analysis has not been effectively related to the study of the ageing process from the point of view of the individual . |
| 14 | Whether an obviously biased intervention by a board member and the introduction of new material by an objector , which had not been previously intimated to the applicant amounted to breaches of natural justice was considered in Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. v. City of Aberdeen District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 2 . |
| 15 | Inevitably , er that has not been entirely acceded to , and indeed to some extent er I can hardly be surprised as events move on during the course of the enquiry . |
| 16 | To put it briefly : in social science one is dealing with situations in which people , ignoring their birth , have not been randomly assigned to their respective social universes . |
| 17 | And a working group on constitutional reform , established by the Supreme Soviet in late 1988 , began — at least in its reported meetings — to develop the notion of ‘ republican precedence ’ , by which the union republics should have full authority over all matters that had not been specifically transferred to the USSR government . |
| 18 | Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate . |
| 19 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |
| 20 | In this case , however , the defence failed because although the auctioneer had regularly made reference to the fact that he did not guarantee the mileage of any car , he had not made an oral disclaimer before accepting bids on the particular car in question and the disclaimer in the written conditions of the auction sale had not been sufficiently brought to the attention of the buyer . |
| 21 | Classification schemes specialize in showing networks of subjects and displaying the relationships between subjects , and thus are particularly suited to achieving the second objective . |
| 22 | The detection boxes mentioned above are also linked to a stand-alone personal computer , loaded with with Granada 's own Fixed Site Management System software . |
| 23 | The administrators rely on threats of dire consequences for the firm as a whole but generally are more committed to the firm ( having weak professional institutes — if any ) and are less marketable should they want to change jobs . |
| 24 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 25 | His success could thus be explicitly attributed to that capacity for influence which British administrators had always claimed to possess , but had not normally had the opportunity of conclusively demonstrating . |
| 26 | The predominance of males , particularly in the physical sciences and engineering , throughout the Western world can no longer be satisfactorily attributed to cognitive differences , which are too small , nor to institutional factors . |
| 27 | It is one of the greatest strengths of the TNC proposals that this longstanding and deep-seated problem may finally be adequately attended to . |
| 28 | Court of Justice rulings have stressed the general principle that goods which have been legally marketed in one member state should normally be freely admitted to others . |
| 29 | However , an irregular inflection like sung would be listed , so that the lexical rule for the formation of the regular plural present tense would not be inappropriately applied to the base to give singed . |
| 30 | This industry should certainly not be haughtily condescended to . |