Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both old age and disability are dimensions of experience which are fundamentally linked to gender ( Morris , 1991 ) . |
| 2 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 3 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 4 | For while it is true that ‘ different costs for different purposes ’ is an accepted part of textbooks , it is not clear that the idea has been successfully communicated to non-accountants . |
| 5 | The platinum fabrication operations previously carried out in Brussels have been successfully moved to Royston , where we now have a single manufacturing site able to serve the whole of Europe . |
| 6 | This technique has been successfully applied to lung washings from patients with sarcoidosis , and M tuberculosis DNA was detected in half of the samples . |
| 7 | Of course , similar materials have been successfully applied to fibre pile , as in the present range of Pertex covered pile from buffalo Designs . |
| 8 | Recently inductively coupled plasma spectrometry ( see glossary ) , which is related to atomic absorption , has also been successfully applied to flint analysis . |
| 9 | The Software Performance Report ( SPR ) has been successfully submitted to LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 11 | The central issue which underlies the continuing pattern of human rights violations is that members of the armed forces are rarely brought to justice for the crimes they commit and therefore act with impunity . |
| 12 | This is partly because surgery and drugs have not succeeded in banishing the ‘ diseases of civilisation ’ ( such as cancer , degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular , respiratory and other systems , and allergies ) and there is growing realisation that many of these diseases are intimately related to life styles and attitudes . |
| 13 | These perceptions , far from being simple or accidental , are intimately related to issues of authority and control and the need to concentrate power in the hands of certain groups of people . |
| 14 | During this process of marsh formation , the original shallow depressions , which were areas of non-deposition in the early stages , are slowly converted to creeks . |
| 15 | In the second type pancreatitis has been mostly related to malnutrition . |
| 16 | It has been mostly left to outsiders to remark that knowledge of the structure of DNA has made possible and has enforced a change of thinking about the nature of living things . |
| 17 | AEA 's experience in quantitative assessment methods , which has been effectively applied to safety management decision making , is now applied where the objective is environmental protection . |
| 18 | Those speakers whose ties are weakest are those who approximate least closely to vernacular norms , and are most exposed to pressures for change originating from outside the network . |
| 19 | These algorithms are most suited to tasks with small branching ratios and reversible operators , and with simple states so that the algorithm can remember several states at a time . |
| 20 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 21 | When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply . |
| 22 | Recent historical research has qualified and in many cases disputed the view that increases in crime are necessarily related to urbanization , economic growth or ‘ progress ’ . |
| 23 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 24 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 25 | Perhaps she said things that would have been better left to silence . |
| 26 | The principles described above still apply in that skills are especially suited to analysis , and can be assessed more easily than the other domains by objective tests . |
| 27 | Two bZIP proteins ( ATF-1 and CREM ) which are highly related to CREB are known to form heterodimers with CREB ( 28 , 29 , 30 ) . |
| 28 | Patients are randomly assigned to treatments even if the doctor suspects that one form of treatment might be better . |
| 29 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 30 | For longer-distance migration the destinations are likely to be places that are better known to tourists or are considered to be scenically more attractive . |