Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of IBM RS/6000 servers however , are installed in commercial environments , or are linked to systems which do not meet IDC 's technical criteria for workstations and are therefore not counted in workstation market figures , the Framingham , Massachusetts research outfit says . |
| 2 | The majority of IBM RS/6000 servers however , are installed in commercial environments , or are linked to systems that do not meet IDC 's technical criteria for workstations and are therefore not counted in workstation market figures , the Framingham , Massachusetts research outfit says . |
| 3 | One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens . |
| 4 | Sufficiently small objects will either be entirely ablated , or be aerobraked to free-fall speeds . |
| 5 | The pilgrims , 680 of whom were later identified as Indonesian and some 600 as Turkish , died of suffocation or were trampled to death in a frantic attempt to escape , as an estimated 50,000 worshippers converged simultaneously on the 500-metre long al-Mu'aysam tunnel connecting Mecca to the pilgrim tent city of Mina , below Mount Arafat . |
| 6 | There may have been as many as 200 women compositors in London in the early 1890s , but as has been noted , the London Society of Compositors was able to exert pressure on employers and see that on the whole they were vanishing or being expelled to printing-houses in the Home Counties . |
| 7 | In a more detailed analysis it would be necessary to separate out these different factors and to attempt to assess how each has contributed or is related to changes in the family . |
| 8 | The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense . |
| 9 | Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case . |
| 10 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 11 | The structurally equivalent residues in rat CD2 may be identified by sequence alignment and Fig.5 b indicates the sidechain positions for those that are exposed to solvent in the sCD2 structure . |
| 12 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
| 13 | One problem it would address is the proportion of grants — as much as 10 per cent — that are lost to currency conversions because French research institutes can not hold foreign currencies . |
| 14 | Using an example of e-mail the paper demonstrates the sorts of data that are lost to history . |
| 15 | Many birds and mammals may have alarm calls that are given to objects that other members of their species have indicated are frightening . |
| 16 | We must recognise that we need both accurate descriptions of language that are related to situation , purpose and mode ( i.e. whether the language is spoken or written ) , and prescriptions that take account of context , appropriateness and the expression of meaning . |
| 17 | But there is perhaps a more fundamental problem here : establishing personality traits or types that are related to crime does not constitute an explanation ; it is the way such traits and types come about , and how they lead to crime , that provides that . |
| 18 | All countries that are committed to non-proliferation and all the signatories to the treaty must be prepared both for greater resources to go into the inspection process and to submit to greater surveillance . |
| 19 | Chrysalids that are attached to twigs or the walls of the cage should be left where they are . |
| 20 | Many products contain mechanisms that are interfaced to electronics and with the advances in miniaturization of these products it is only the special-purpose machines which possess the skills to manufacture and assemble them . |
| 21 | Billions of dollars of commercial mortgages have been securitised ( ie , bundled up to back tradable bonds that are sold to investors ) ; real-estate investment trusts ( a tax-favoured property-investment vehicle ) are booming ; and other ways of encouraging more investors to own small parts of big buildings are being explored . |
| 22 | Among the home-grown equipment were a number of cheap devices that are sold to schools . |
| 23 | Fortunately there are still a handful of splendid brews that are allowed to condition in the bottle . |
| 24 | Such tumorigenesis has been induced in cultured cells following transfection with some of the 7-membrane-spanning receptors that are coupled to PLC ( Fig. 1 and Box 1 ) such as 5-HT 1c ( ref. 139 ) , M1 , M2 and M5 140 , and α 1B -receptors . |
| 25 | In short , ignorance of the decisions which others are in fact about to make may cause decision-makers to make unfortunate plans — either plans that are doomed to disappointment or plans which fail to exploit existing market opportunities . |
| 26 | Its workstation figures include sales of server systems that are dedicated to workstation environments , tools and utilities software such as operating systems , compilers , software engineering tools and graphics libraries , certain peripherals — such as personal computer co-processor boards and laser printers — service , maintenance , custom consulting and systems integration fees . |
| 27 | Its workstation figures do include sales of server systems , but only servers that are dedicated to workstation environments , plus tools and utilities software such as operating systems , compilers , software engineering tools and graphics libraries , certain peripherals — such as personal computer co-processor boards and laser printers — service , maintenance , custom consulting and systems integration fees . |
| 28 | One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching . |
| 29 | But those that are added to Tesco Healthy Eating Bio Yogurt give it a special mild flavour — less acidic than some varieties . |
| 30 | On the strength of a prayer from a loving soul , she would suggest an unfortunate soul be reborn and given a chance to reform , rather than be doomed to purgatory . |