Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designer Labels is intended to short-cut the procedure , and allow you to do what you want with labels in a short time , and for the most part , it succeeds . |
| 2 | Cosmas is burnt to death in his bed ; Damien killed by a mysterious archer who apparently can pass through thick walls , but there 's no clue to the riddle , no sign of the Templars and not a shred of evidence to indicate where the Grail or Excalibur lie . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season ’ |
| 4 | The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season . |
| 5 | But if the interpretation of poetic texts is condemned to indeterminacy , then how can we have an explanatory account of the role of figurative language in communication ? |
| 6 | A TOWN 'S newest soccer league for youngsters is set to kick-off with a little help from the local beat bobby . |
| 7 | The fact that the Holy Spirit has come upon the Gentiles is a sign from God that the Old Testament plan for the Gentiles is coming to fulfilment after all . |
| 8 | The prime motive , the committee claims , is to save taxpayers ' money , but Wiltshire 's senior police officer says any attempt to run his force along purely business lines is doomed to failure . |
| 9 | Good and evil are understood , just as with Moore , as non-natural characteristics whose presence in things is revealed to intuition . |
| 10 | Generally , notation from the Tables is added to notation in the schedules to make a more specific number . |
| 11 | He said the erosion of Sunday opening regulations is leading to traffic increases in towns , along with noise and disturbance . |
| 12 | Public relations is related to advertising in that both are about persuasion through communication . |
| 13 | Erm volumes are about level with last year and the improvement in profits is related to currency changes . |
| 14 | Access to tribunals for unfair dismissal of strikers is narrowed to victimization in the complainant 's own ‘ establishment ’ ; workers taking part in it elsewhere no longer count as his fellows . |
| 15 | These debates are particularly acute when the level and regularity of consultation with large business corporations is compared to consumer groups , women 's organizations , non-unionized labour or minority groups . |
| 16 | The proposal that drama somehow became more sophisticated with an interest in psychology adopted by Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists is to come to Renaissance drama with a presumption that literary sophistication is the representation of psychological interiority , a view largely derived from the centrality of late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels within a reading experience . |
| 17 | The romantic yet often bloody heyday of the Smugglers is brought to life in a themed experience which includes an exhibition and museum , video theatre , subterranean adventure walk , with over fifty life-size figures , push buttons , dramatic sound and lighting — and also a few surprises ! |
| 18 | Some of the scope for the criticism of policy that comes to Opposition members is denied to government supporters . |
| 19 | Reminders have been sent during the year , and the attention of all members is drawn to Rule 19 , which reads as follows : |
| 20 | The operation of rental and freehold land markets is compared to inheritance as a means of access to land . |
| 21 | The IBA must ensure that a sufficient amount of time in the programmes is given to news and news features and that all news given in the programmes … is presented with due accuracy and impartiality . |
| 22 | It will 1 ) examine more fully the extent to which primary schools vary in their effects on a variety of pupils ' educational outcomes , including progress in reading and maths ; 2 ) establish whether the composition of pupil intakes is related to effectiveness ; 3 ) find out whether school vary in their effectiveness from year to year and whether their effects on pupils persist into secondary school . |
| 23 | The cost of these schemes is charged to profit and loss account over the service lives of employees in |
| 24 | As we have indicated above there is now considerable evidence that degree performance for traditionally qualified students is related to performance in examinations before entry , although most of the research relates to England and A-level entry ( Sear , 1983 ; Bourner and Hamed , 1987 ; Johnes and Taylor , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | The unique story behind each new issue of Special Stamps is brought to life inside Presentation Packs . |
| 26 | The government 's formal reply to these reports is presented to Parliament by the Treasury in the form of a Treasury minute , and the reports and minutes are debated annually in the House . |
| 27 | Friends of the Earth has called for a boycott of all timber products from Britain 's leading " do-it-yourself " chain stores , on the grounds that their import of tropical hardwoods is contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 28 | The uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 29 | As we go to press , the uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 30 | Studies by the German researchers Sukopp and Schindler have shown that the stems of reed mace Typha are weakened and tend to break at even 11–20 mg/litre nitrate , while , in the Broads , an extensive dieback of the elegant Norfolk reed Phragmites is attributed to nitrate pollution . |