Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a family contacts or is referred to the referral scheme coordinator every assistance is given to that family to link into their local community group to ensure that the group is physically suitable and that any special assistance needed to enable the child to attend the group and enjoy its activities is provided . |
| 2 | The consent of the existing licensee is not a statutory requirement , however most boards insist that consent is endorsed on the principal licence or is indicated to the clerk in writing , in order to ensure no dispute arises after the application is considered as to who the correct licence holder should be . |
| 3 | Topical treatment ( a cream that is applied to the skin ) , is used for mild or moderately severe acne . |
| 4 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 5 | The report also allows me to re-confirm the financial contribution that is made to the running costs of the Unit . |
| 6 | The lower pool holds the main body of water that is pumped to the top one to return via the fall . |
| 7 | News can not just be soon as information about events that is transmitted to the public in some unproblematic way ; in a very real sense the news is manufactured . |
| 8 | The Polytechnic must find it all the more galling that a situation has developed whereby an institute of higher education has become a sub-centre of the Faculty of Education at Cardiff for training further education teachers , a role that is denied to the Polytechnic because it has lost its involvement in the professional training of teachers . |
| 9 | The number that is sent to the file is in the range 0 to 225 . |
| 10 | One problem remains , however — how do you find training that is geared to the needs of the individuals ? |
| 11 | As stated in the AEA Times bulletin our clear preference is for our commercial business to be retained essentially in a single company that is transferred to the private sector either by a public flotation or private placement . |
| 12 | Never work on any project that is connected to the mains supply . |
| 13 | A depth-first traversal goes from a node to one of the nodes directly connected to it and then immediately continues by visiting a node that is connected to the last visited node ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 14 | If this field is left blank , LIFESPAN will start the list from the highest SPR identifier that is known to the system and for which details have been entered . |
| 15 | If this field is left blank , LIFESPAN will start the list from the highest SPR identifier that is known to the system and for which details have been entered . |
| 16 | If this field is left blank , LIFESPAN will start the list from the highest SPR identifier that is known to the system and for which details have been entered . |
| 17 | If this field is left blank , LIFESPAN will start the list from the highest SSR identifier that is known to the system and for which details have been entered . |
| 18 | If this field is left blank , LIFESPAN will start the list from the highest SSR identifier that is known to the system and for which details have been entered . |
| 19 | ‘ Rugby is the game that is suited to The Famous Grouse . |
| 20 | One of the advantages of using a person-in-role over inanimate objects is that the ‘ passive ’ stage of watching and listening can gradually change to a more active involvement , as and when the class seems ready , but more important of course is the extra dynamic edge that is brought to the whole occasion by having present someone real and breathing and tangible instead of just a photograph . |
| 21 | It may be the choice of words or it may be the respect that is accorded to the disapprover . |
| 22 | Although the Hexams ' Thames-side tenement , a former mill , in Our Mutual Friend , is in itself atrocious — ‘ roof , and walls , and floor … alike had a look of decomposition ’ — it is the effort to make the place a home — ‘ a small dresser , making a spare show of the commonest articles of crockery and cooking vessels ’ that is drawn to the reader 's attention . |
| 23 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 24 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 25 | This is not a problem that is confined to the sociology of religion , but it is one that arises frequently when students wish to study ‘ closed ’ sects or new religions which they believe ( probably quite correctly ) would not allow them to carry out their research — there is an unmeasured but , I suspect , strong relationship between the theological conservatism of a religion and the distrust with which its believers view sociologists . |
| 26 | Not only are many of the possible haplotypes confined to one race or area , but there is even a haplotype that is confined to the former ‘ Silk Road ’ between China and Europe . |
| 27 | If uniqueness is one quality that is attributed to the English village , then timelessness is the other , but again it is easy to confer an entirely spurious antiquity on village life , and even upon the physical structure of villages , which can be misleading . |
| 28 | In the play , which was to tour Britain before running in London 's West End , Crawford was cast as Runnicles , a bank clerk given the task of disposing of piles of pornography that is delivered to the manager and his wife . |
| 29 | There is n't much to find : shirts and underwear , a new toothbrush that 's fallen to the bottom , and a brown paper parcel for the gun . |
| 30 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |