Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The returns are related to performance , but that is not surprising these days . |
| 2 | The entities are subjected to selection of sorting over many " generations " in succession . |
| 3 | Other cases are known to Amnesty International , where asylum seekers travelling without valid travel documents have been prevented by airline personnel , sometimes with the knowledge of Immigration Officers , from applying for political asylum in this country . |
| 4 | It concluded that , ‘ The speed with which cases are brought to trial is in our view determined almost entirely by the volume of business and the resources available to deal with it . ’ |
| 5 | The real advantage of all this is that if your fingers are trained to type /FS in order to save a file , the same command will still work in 1-2-3 for Windows . |
| 6 | The output from this stage is passed to the emission stage of the model where , based on emission characteristics , the transport and land-use activities are converted to pollution emission rates . |
| 7 | Cash surpluses are delivered to carrier to Midland Cash Centres . |
| 8 | This leads naturally to another key point : whatever social or political meanings are attached to sport by different groups , participation remains intensely sociable and largely organized around the institution of the individual ‘ club ’ — a neglected social creation of the Victorians . |
| 9 | Note how blacks are invested with vastly exaggerated powers of social combination whilst the ethnic majority are reduced to minority status — ‘ just our lot from the estate ’ . |
| 10 | Attempts are made to route them into low-level manual work regardless of ability or level of motivation for further education , and discrimination in entry to training schemes acts as a further block to employment and careers ( Wrench , 1987 , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | A number of teachers have of course been exposed to discovery methods , the principles of new maths and new science ; there is , however , a strong countervailing trend in which pupils know from their CPE texts what are the answers , the definitions of the scientific laws , and increasingly regard as a waste of time proving by rudimentary experiments what they already know . |
| 12 | Our proposals are confined to attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 13 | The look.up table values are chosen to ramp up the motor velocity over six steps to a maximum stepping rate which is of the clock frequency . |
| 14 | Managerial strategies concerning supervision and measurement of work , promotion prospects , new programming methods and other factors affecting skill patterns are related to market conditions and technology . |
| 15 | The eleven faculty members who made the decision are sworn to secrecy . |
| 16 | As we have seen so far , the results from pattern recognition are far from perfect , and no matter what improvements are made to recognition , it is never going to reach 100% accuracy . |
| 17 | The red route option , which we introduced , has already shown that bus services improve when comparable improvements are made to traffic management . |
| 18 | This fact , and the decay-rate restrictions discussed below , lie behind the paucity of experimental evidence on Ikeda instabilities : only in two all-optical systems ( both pulsed rather than continuous-wave ) has 2tR oscillation and chaos been observed to date . |
| 19 | Roy and Judy are taken to make-up to have those nerves calmed and for a bit of pampering . |
| 20 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 21 | rewards are linked to performance ; |
| 22 | Governors need to make sure that information about the school is available in the local library , welfare clinics and doctors ' surgeries and that all local community groups are invited to school functions . |
| 23 | However , there are a number of studies which do suggest that socio-economic characteristics are related to morbidity and to access to health services . |
| 24 | Ethical guidelines are needed to undergird national policies for information . |
| 25 | The artist 's sketches and scribbles are analysed to demonstrate recurring motifs and psychological preoccupations guilt at the death of Casegemas or a mistress 's abortion for example while figures such as Alfred Jarry , Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein are brought to life in Richardson 's simple , flowing prose . |
| 26 | Income and expenditure in foreign currencies are converted to sterling at rates approximating to those ruling at the date of each transaction ; assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates ruling at the balance sheet date . |
| 27 | At 3pm all standing fans are urged to stage a minute 's peaceful sit down ; those already seated should stand up and ( as it were ) be counted . |
| 28 | Hang on , the B-side to ‘ Success … ’ is in fact the same track , and lo and behold , all royalties are donated to AIDS charities … |
| 29 | Not only had most manorial demesnes been let to farm well before the beginning of the Tudor epoch , small freeholds and customary tenements were also regularly managed in the same fashion — indeed , they must frequently have been treated as investments . |
| 30 | Does he agree that it would be an act of the most amazing folly to tamper with the provisions that currently apply , and yet that is exactly what the Opposition are committed to doing if they win the general election ? |