Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of highly conserved glycines and other small residues at the C terminus of GH5 lie at or close to the turn of the β -hairpin , and presumably are required to form the hairpin without steric hindrance . |
| 2 | More rarely , disease products from specific diseases such as measles , chicken pox , whooping cough , syphilis , gonorrhoea , cancer etc. are used to produce the corresponding nosode . |
| 3 | It had eventually been decided to limit the statements to accounts of atrocities alleged to have been committed only between June and August 1944 , so that they could be tied precisely to Kesselring 's orders . |
| 4 | Though the terms of the Barber bequest originally forbad the purchase of works painted after 1899 , this stipulation has since been altered to permit the acquisition of works of art at least thirty years old — an alteration which has made possible the purchase under the present Director , Professor Hamish Miles , of important pictures by Redon , Gwen John , Leger and Magritte . |
| 5 | ‘ Having since been taken to see the poor man 's body , in the mortuary , I am certain that I did . ’ |
| 6 | Nor has much been done to attack the soft commissions ( payments in kind ) given to fund managers to attract their business . |
| 7 | Researchers at the Salk Institute in California have at last tracked down the last of the ‘ releasing factors ’ secreted by cells in the hypothalamus that have long been assumed to regulate the release of hormones from the pituitary gland ( Trends in Neurosciences . |
| 8 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |
| 9 | Being an inveterate story-teller , Mira is quick to remark on the degenerate effect the dominance of the media has on personal development : ‘ Gradually all our secret treasures have been removed and we 've all been made to share the same abstracted and alienating public knowledge ’ ( 111 ) . |
| 10 | Stone Roses , Happy Mondays and the Inspirals have all been tipped to break the States but THEY CHARLATANS may have the best chance of all . |
| 11 | Stone Roses , Happy Mondays and the Inspirals have all been tipped to break the States but THEY CHARLATANS may have the best chance of all . |
| 12 | The courses have all been designed to provide the basic knowledge and skills needed to cope with the rapid developments which are met by professional engineers , along with essential practical and design skills . |
| 13 | The latter are vigorous sterile hybrids which send out long rooting runners , and so are equipped to survive the rigours of demolition and grading . |
| 14 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 15 | Prunskiene said that she had merely been forced to give the KGB an account of her foreign visits . |
| 16 | When market forces alone are allowed to determine the exchange value of currencies , a free-floating exchange rate system is said to exist . |
| 17 | Moreover , the ‘ curved path ’ , ‘ whirling mass ’ , ‘ cosmic wheel ’ or spiralling vortex described by the ancients as the integrating pattern of cosmic universal energy , can only be seen to have the endorsement of modern research and understanding . |
| 18 | The shopper , so the refrain goes , does n't know how to cook fresh fish , ca n't cope with bones , wo n't pay a fair price and will only be persuaded to buy the traditional species . |
| 19 | Given this reality , a Common Foreign and Security policy can only be expected to reflect the lowest common denominator , the position which least offends . |
| 20 | I quote further it should only be used to signify the unity of the church and it should provide a sharing in the means of grace . |
| 21 | This table will only be used to facilitate the retrieval of obsolete material e.g. discarded Supplement text ( which has been incorporated into OED material ) . |
| 22 | British military forces would only be used to ensure the smooth transition of power to properly elected local governments , and to protect the newly independent states from external predators . |
| 23 | provided that a member or a beneficial owner of a share shall only be required to reimburse the Society to the extent that the Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the recognised body or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator or any such person . |
| 24 | In the ordinary course of a liquidation , for example , people can only be forced to attend the court where their evidence is needed to fill gaps in the company 's records . |
| 25 | It lies flat in the road about half-way down the street , and can swiftly be raised to block the progress of an unauthorised vehicle . |
| 26 | The owner says he is constantly being approached to sell the clothes for hundreds of dollars , but he prefers the publicity they generate . |
| 27 | Sykes was also responsible for many other signalling and safety devices , including depression or fouling bars interlocked with signals , thus providing valuable protection against these inadvertently being set to allow the passage of a train if other trains were obstructing its path . |
| 28 | But when tunicates alone were used to root the analysis , the grouping of lampreys and gnathostomes was supported . |
| 29 | Although Anselm made it clear that he personally was bound to observe the papal decrees of 1099 until released by proper authority , he remained neutral in all the negotiations between the king and pope . |
| 30 | He poured out his heart about the faithlessness of Israel , his own loyalty to God , his loneliness in his dangerous situation , and a feeling that he alone was left to defend the divine cause . |