Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revenue budgets have traditionally been referred to as line-item budgets ; that is , budgets which focus on expense elements such as salaries , materials and other consumables , rather than on the reason for the expenditure . |
| 2 | Erm the then the seems to us the final er difference between ourselves and the er county council , is the issue of migration and what 's already been referred to as environmental discounts . |
| 3 | Erm you you 've asked er chairman for for a general comment on on what 's been referred to as environmental discount , environmental considerations and so forth . |
| 4 | We could have created a fairer system without incidentally , the problems that have been referred to in earlier debates of trying to redraw boundaries at such short notice er before the European elections . |
| 5 | The applicants , Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , defendants in a libel action brought against them by David Woodley and Roger Clifford , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that C.N.L. were at liberty to receive from Michael Thomas Bromell copies of all such witness statements , notes , notebooks and other documents which had come into existence in the course of an investigation by the Police Complaints Authority into the conduct of David Woodley and Roger Clifford as had been read to or by the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) or had been referred to in open court during the hearing of Reg. v. Bromell ( unreported ) , 22 June 1992 , C.A. , on a reference , dated 10 May 1991 , of his case by the Home Secretary under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 ; and/or ( 2 ) variation of the implied undertaking pursuant to which Michael Thomas Bromell had received the documents under the order of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) on 9 July 1991 , so as to permit him to disclose copies of all such documents described in ( 1 ) above to C.N.L. for the purpose of defending the libel action . |
| 6 | Although this formulation has been referred to in subsequent cases it has not been adopted as laying down an all embracing test . |
| 7 | This sector has also been referred to by some as a lumpenproletariat . |
| 8 | They were lawyers and sometimes are referred to as such in the Gospel . |
| 9 | More extensive , however , are the vast sheets of basaltic lavas which have formed on the continents at various times in the past and are referred to as continental flood basalts . |
| 10 | If present at birth , they are referred to as congenital cataracts . |
| 11 | Sometimes , somewhat misleadingly , these standards are referred to as minimum standards . |
| 12 | The initiating processes in all these interactions are referred to as biological interface conversion processes and can be easily studied in the eye because contact lenses can be removed and analysed after only a few minutes ' wear . |
| 13 | In word-processing these options are referred to as left justification , right justification and full justification . |
| 14 | Such limitations are referred to as patient selection bias , spectrum bias , and observer ( signal detection ) bias , respectively . |
| 15 | These are referred to as skeletal muscles , most of which are attached at both ends to bones . |
| 16 | These are referred to as skeletal muscles , most of which are attached at both ends to bones . |
| 17 | Such sub-contractors , although once appointed are treated in every way as domestic sub-contractors , are referred to as named sub-contractors . |
| 18 | Alpha , beta and gamma radiation , together with cosmic rays , are referred to as ionising radiation because they interact with atoms , removing electrons from them , and the atoms then became ions . |
| 19 | Consent should not be unreasonably withheld and sub-contractors so employed are referred to as domestic sub-contractors . |
| 20 | For this reason , they are referred to as linguistic universals . |
| 21 | When conceptual distinctions are expressed in language they are referred to as semantic relations . |
| 22 | Colour-pointed cattle are referred to in pre-Christian Irish epics and the colour pattern was a favourite in Celtic lore . |
| 23 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 24 | Thirdly , Lyons points out that if one thinks of anaphora as reference to entities already established in the domain of discourse , then the ways in which they are referred to in anaphoric reference commonly make use of the order in which they were introduced by the discourse itself . |
| 25 | Some of them , for example Jones ( 1922 ) and Dewey and Eastwood ( 1925 ) , are referred to in this Guide . |
| 26 | One such example given is Polynesia , and the evidence depends on the fact that in Polynesian kinship terminology , only differences of generation and sex are recognized , so that all males of the generation directly preceding one 's own are referred to by one and the same word , which was glossed by Morgan as ‘ father ’ ; similarly , all females of this same generation are referred to one term , which can be glossed as ‘ mother ’ . |
| 27 | These are referred to by some of the local people as the ‘ funeral gate ’ and the ‘ wedding gate ’ , respectively . |
| 28 | In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives . |
| 29 | In Mrs Castle 's Diaries I am referred to with varying degrees of approval and disapproval . |
| 30 | Another situation creating uncertainty as to party status is where reservations have been made to a treaty which have been objected to by some States but not by others . |