Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This possibility can not be discounted , but it must be borne in mind that Szulc 's sources for this are confined to interviews with Blas Roca , Fabio Grobart and Alfredo Guevara , all of whom are ‘ old ’ Communists who might well be anxious to give an enhanced impression of their role in the early stages of the revolution . |
| 2 | How could this be turned to advantage ? |
| 3 | A British tourist , Mr Edward Gait , and a West German were crushed to death and 12 other foreigners were injured when a restaurant roof collapsed in Arona , Tenerife , police said yesterday . |
| 4 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 5 | To portray specific characters , whether imagined or real ( some were known to members of the audience at the first performance of Enigma Variations and Isadora ) , the would-be choreographer can use classical dance as a firm base but must pay more attention to his characters as particular individuals . |
| 6 | The ex-MetropolitaN Feltham cars followed their ex-L.U.T. brethren to Telford Avenue and some were allocated to Brixton Hill depôt which was now regarded as an annexe to Telford Avenue and had no traverser . |
| 7 | Some were changed to oil but even in the 1950's the question was strongly debated as many thought they should continue to burn the fuel they carried . |
| 8 | It is clearly dangerous to be too sweeping about the type of support which fascism received , for the evidence is far too diffuse and fragmentary , but it would be fair to accept Wal Hannington 's point that the allegiance to the trade unions and the Labour Party prevented the working class and the unemployed being attracted to fascism though he felt that , ‘ Every locality where the unemployed remain unorganized is a potential breeding-ground for this country , just as it was in Germany . ’ |
| 9 | On the next clock pulse this is transferred to Q i.e. Q = 0 and . |
| 10 | This is connected to questions about why some people are born with poor health and touches on some very deep aspects of philosophy which I will not attempt to discuss in this book . |
| 11 | This is connected to theories of x-inefficiency which were pioneered by Leibenstein , 1978 . |
| 12 | It is also sometimes convenient ( Clarke and Hayward , 1989 ) to make the further coordinate transformation ( 15.13 ) With this , the line element ( 15.12 ) takes the alternative form of the Bertotti-Robinson line element ( 15.14 ) Region IV is now described by the line element ( 15.14 ) with the coordinate ranges given by ( 15.15 ) This is joined to regions II and III across the surfaces . |
| 13 | However the use and acceptance of touch depends on numerous cultural norms and personal characteristics ; each culture has rules about how , when and where to touch another human , and this is related to gender , age and maturity . |
| 14 | The change is in the ‘ mix ’ of oral and literate modes and this is related to changes in the conventions associated with them . |
| 15 | This is related to marketing and systems analysis literature and practice with the aim of establishing deficiencies and proposing future research directions . |
| 16 | Usually , this is granted to publications written by the clergy and approved by the church — in our case , it was awarded for services to the lesbian and gay community , and for generally being a good magazine . |
| 17 | For most knitting software , this is limited to IBM PC compatibles , although the Bit Knitter will also run on the Amiga . |
| 18 | You should point out the necessity of co-operating with the doctor but you should warn the plaintiff that this is limited to matters relating to his or her medical condition . |
| 19 | [ There is another Talking Tape Service — Lothian Sound , but this is limited to Edinburgh I believe , and concentrates on extracts from the Evening News ] . |
| 20 | This is dedicated to Simon Levy |
| 21 | Naturally , this is confined to motoring but can include the cost of representation in summary proceedings as well as advice on claims and general motoring law , disputes with garages , and claims arising out of accidents . |
| 22 | This is linked to Gramsci 's general conception of the relationship between economic forces and ‘ super structural ’ elements . |
| 23 | This is linked to class sizes which by British standards are small ( averaging about 18 ) and highly stable . |
| 24 | This is linked to population decline in what is usually portrayed as a vicious circle of cause and effect : as services decline people react by out-migrating , which leads to further fall in demand and a consequent further reduction in service provision ( Bracey 1970 ) . |
| 25 | Accordingly , if anomalies appear in the results , this is attributed to defects in the experiment rather than to wilfulness on the part of the animals under investigation . |
| 26 | This is known to lawyers as res ipsa loquitur , that is , " the thing speaks for itself " . |
| 27 | It is also true that speakers in all classes use more standard variants in formal than in casual speech ( this is known to sociolinguists as styleshift ) . |
| 28 | This is known to historians both as Duklija ( after Roman Doclea ) and Zeta , after the river which flows between Nikšić and Titograd . |
| 29 | The third and fourth time this is reduced to Leader ‘ Oggy ’ , Response ‘ Oi ’ , Leader ‘ Oggy ’ , Response ‘ Oi ’ . |
| 30 | This is paid to mothers with at least one child for whom they receive child benefit . |