Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially all previous studies of the Prisoners ' Dilemma are confined to individuals or organized groups who can remember past encounters , who have high probabilities of future encounters ( with little discounting of future pay-offs ) , and who use these facts to underpin more-or-less elaborate strategies of cooperation or defection . |
| 2 | Advantage : the toilet is within the house and could in the future be connected to sewers rather than a soakway . |
| 3 | In man , X could be a newly acquired possibility ( e.g. human cloning or hang-gliding ) , perceived by some individuals as being socially undesirable , the perception being communicated to others linguistically . |
| 4 | Starting with the categories of information used in this form individual comments from both the description and potential risks condition were assigned to categories . |
| 5 | I thought ‘ oh no , not all the way back to the east end of London and risk my car being smashed to bits ’ , but there was Jim and Paul Simpson on the left , dazzling , running rings around those irons . |
| 6 | Should one warhorse be slain the wagon can still move but its speed is reduced to 4″ . |
| 7 | When this sustained-release bolus is administered to calves just prior to turn-out , it prevents the development of infections acquired from overwintered larvae and so prevents the deposition of eggs during the spring . |
| 8 | We assume throughout that demands are generated by a single aggregate utility function and that tax revenue is returned to consumers in lump-sum form . |
| 9 | Greater weight is given to propositions by judges of courts higher in the hierarchy of courts . |
| 10 | Greater weight is given to propositions contained in judgments where the judges took time to consider their judgments . |
| 11 | Greater weight is given to propositions which have been repeated by judges in a number of cases . |
| 12 | Greater weight is given to propositions in cases where the decision was unanimous . |
| 13 | Greater weight is given to propositions which appear to be broadly consistent with the general law governing the area in which the proposition arises . |
| 14 | Scant weight is given to indices of economic deprivation , such as unemployment levels and proportions of children or families in receipt of Supplementary Benefit . |
| 15 | The evidence suggests that future expectations are an important determinant of the level of investment , although more weight is given to expectations about relative price changes over the current quarter . |
| 16 | In job applications , more weight is given to publications in international journals . |
| 17 | VIP is localised to neurones in the lamina propria , submucousal , and myenteric plexuses of the gut and mediates the descending inhibitory reflex . |
| 18 | The present study is designed to asses the extent of this problem and the factors which influence it . |
| 19 | Very little guidance is given to students , who enrol ( with some exceptions ) in the subject of their choice and shift around at will , taking around six years to complete their first degree . |
| 20 | ‘ It is now well-established that any application of the best evidence rule is confined to cases in which it can be shown that the party has the original and could produce it but does not . ’ |
| 21 | It reads : ‘ This college is closed to visitors ’ . |
| 22 | Problems arise when scrubbing is taken to extremes , particularly common among sufferers from spot-prone skin . |
| 23 | The term is applied to rugs which are about 8′ ( or two zars ) in length and 5 ′/6; ′ wide ( 2.44 × 1.52/1.83 m ) . |
| 24 | This work and previous studies have shown that the expression of the N-Oct 3 ( brain-2 ) transcript and protein is confined to cells of the nervous system in which it is the predominant Oct-protein [ 14 ] [ 11 , 15 ] [ 13 ] . |
| 25 | City and Guilds is a vital part of the training for our YT trainees , and a cash bonus is paid to trainees and their supervisors on completion of Level I and Level II . |
| 26 | Entrance is limited to employees and their immediate families . |
| 27 | Zimmerman points out that ‘ it was at this stage that Soviet authorities permitted , tolerated or encouraged Marshal Sokolovskii and his colleagues to publish an awesome picture of American military might ’ ( Voennaia Strategiia , 1962 ) and that ‘ wide dissemination was given to statements declaring that never before had imperialism been so strong ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 192 ) . |
| 28 | The result was announced to cheers from jubilant supporters in the Westland Sports and Social Club as Mr Ashdown hugged his wife Jane , who had carried out much of his local campaigning . |
| 29 | The Gnostic critique and rejection of the Creator God of the Old Testament was taken to extremes by Marcion in the first half of the second century . |
| 30 | The follow up study was restricted to participants from the first study who were 25 to 74 years of age at baseline . |