Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Descendants of the nomadic ‘ hordes ’ of Central Asia , many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union , whom they closely resemble . |
| 2 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 3 | Excuse me , can I finish , er many of them are chained to the parent 's legs while they 're collected for these people then to bring to a circus , traumatized and chained to the ground for life . |
| 4 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 6 | YOU ARE INVITED TO THE BIGGEST CANINE BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER |
| 7 | Instantly , you are treated to the Archer frown of disapproval . |
| 8 | MEN open your eyes and see how you are chained to the capitalist system by the needs of your wives and children . |
| 9 | CHILDREN open your eyes and see how you are chained to the needs and desires of your parents . |
| 10 | You must make sure that you are occupied to the point where you do not feel bored . |
| 11 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
| 12 | You are glued to the screen . |
| 13 | I swear you are frozen to the bone . |
| 14 | A lethal tree is growing out horizontally from the righthand bank , not visible until you are committed to the bend . |
| 15 | now you are committed to the purchase and have to pay a 10 per cent deposit , which is non-returnable if you pull out . |
| 16 | By registering the product , you are added to the mailing list , and will be notified of any new versions , bug fixes and so forth , usually well before you read about them in any of the nation 's magazines . |
| 17 | Unless you are attracted to the look of copper saucepans , a better bet may be to purchase stainless steel saucepans with a copper base . |
| 18 | Whether you are attracted to the beauty and tranquillity of Lake Saimaa or the historic and cultural wealth of Leningrad , perestroika can be thanked for having opened up a fascinating new cruising ground accessible to those looking for fresh places to visit , as well as being a potential charter area . |
| 19 | You will see a dialog box counting up the number of matches , before you are returned to the original display showing files at the left , and details at the right . |
| 20 | It 's just that the first time it happens , especially if you are used to the more genteel reduction in power and revs of a Lycoming or a Continental when you throttle back , it does n't half make the old adrenalin start flowing . |
| 21 | Right at the outset we are alerted to the tact that Mary Frith , the real-life cross-dresser on whom the play is based , is being given a more virtuous image than she in fact possessed ( dedication , ll. 19 ff. ; prologue , ll. 26 — 7 ) . |
| 22 | So it is important to remember that schools are not factories — however frequently we are told that they have to ‘ deliver ’ the curriculum , and however deliberately we are exposed to the pressures of competition and market forces . |
| 23 | So as we get a platform on a level of erm if you like , performance , where we are compared to the Ferraris , the McClarens etc. , and any other ones down the field . |
| 24 | We are connected to the phone down there . |
| 25 | For example , we are treated to the results of a 10-year study of the foraging activity of a laboratory colony of Atta , information on the biology of the immense carpenter ant genus Camponotus and unique insights into the alkaloidal pharmacopoeia of fire ants . |
| 26 | Instead , we are treated to the Gaelic language stuck on the culture of others like Thomas the Tank Engine or pastiche gardening programmes about how to grow runner beans against a breeze block wall ! |
| 27 | ‘ My greatest hope is that we shall gain a deeper knowledge of who we are and how we are related to the Universe , and that this knowledge will further the evolutionary progression of our collective consciousness . ’ |
| 28 | Once again we are led to the provisional conclusion that the poll tax was only one variable determining party support in individual district authorities , not least because of the problems voters had in deciding where responsibility lay . |
| 29 | As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt , we are led to the first major misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief . |
| 30 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |