Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public sector tendering will in future be opened to all European Community firms with a requirement to advertise tenders and award contracts without discrimination . |
| 2 | The government announced on Dec. 2 , 1989 , that the value of the metical would in future be linked to that of a basket of currencies , of undisclosed content , rather than to the US dollar as had been the case since Jan. 31 , 1987 . |
| 3 | When gamma equals one all the weight is given to last year 's price all the weight is given to last year 's price okay right , so past history , all past history is ignored apart from the price at T minus one right and the closer that gamma is our expectations co-efficient , closer gamma is to one , the more weight be attached to last year 's price , relative to the previous history of prices okay right . |
| 4 | The European Commission has recommended that taxes on biodiesel be limited to 10 per cent of the level on fossil fuels , making it competitive in some European countries . |
| 5 | Now the United States is on the verge of bombing Iraq on the pretext that Iraq refuses to destroy its ‘ weapons of mass destruction ’ — when , in fact , Iraq has asked that some of its military industry be converted to civilian production laid waste by allied bombing . |
| 6 | Authorities decided the only possible means of completing the transfer on time would be from a proper docking facility and requested the carrier be moved to nearby Glasgow for loading . |
| 7 | For example , the investors may accept that the managers be severally liable for the warranties ; that the warranties be restricted to their actual knowledge ; that the maximum claim to be brought against any of the managers be limited to one or two times salary ( significant enough to concentrate minds ) ; that a high de minimis be accepted ; and that the time period of warranty claims against management be limited to twelve months after completion . |
| 8 | Why should observations through a telescope be preferred to naked-eye observations ? |
| 9 | It can be argued that true liberalization of standing rules requires not only that applicants be accorded standing to represent interests which they share with many others ( the old test of ‘ genuine grievance ’ achieved that ) but also that standing be accorded to genuine representatives of interested persons even if the only interest of the representative is to further the interests of the represented . |
| 10 | To what extent can these findings from the British civil service be generalised to other occupational groups ? |
| 11 | The circulation may on occasion be restricted to certain defined and known developers who are most likely tore-instruct the agent for the sale of the projected development . |
| 12 | And could British Rail be sold to British Rail ? |
| 13 | What may in the first instance be attributed to physical causes and treated by an herbalist may , if it persists or grows more severe , be redefined as caused by mystical forces requiring treatment by a diviner ( see Horton 1970 : 142 ) . |
| 14 | Thus , if on the one hand the ‘ civilizing ’ role of the Russians in Siberia should not be belittled , neither should too much credence be given to nationalistic claims put forward in Russian accounts of the subject , whether before or after the 1917 Revolution . |
| 15 | The committee had recommended that the age of majority be reduced to 18 generally . |
| 16 | Once such a formulation is proposed then it can of course be applied to other phenomena ( other than those originally used ) and these are explained as additional instances of the abstractions that have been established . |
| 17 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 18 | However , a new approach to the question of remedies available for breach was occasioned by Diplock LJ in Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [ 1962 ] 2 QB 26 ( at p70 ) : There are … many contractual undertakings of a more complex character which can not be categorised as being " conditions " or " warranties " , if the late 19th century meaning adopted in the Sale of Goods Act , 1893 , and used by Bowen LJ in Bentsen v Taylor , Sons & Co be given to those terms . |
| 19 | Discussing the use of the 18-foot ( 5.5 metre ) perch for measuring plots , the fiscal assessment in Domesday Book and the 1284 Kirby 's Quest knights ' fees , she examined in detail the plans of Hemingborough , Thornton le Beans and Upper Poppleton , and showed that the plans of these and other villages seem co be related to early feudal arrangements . |
| 20 | So how can protecting the environment be left to individual conscience ? |
| 21 | In addition the draft proposed that the size of the Commission be reduced to one member per country ( France , Germany , Italy , Spain and the UK currently having two Commissioners ) . |
| 22 | Because they focus on local-level , small-scale issues , their achievements must by definition be limited to that level , and success , that is the accomplishment of the task , may even mean the disbandment of the movement . |
| 23 | Identifying as unquestionably spontaneous whatever can not even on the most indulgent interpretation be ascribed to considered choice , what will be the place of spontaneity in our model of the rational man ? |
| 24 | I would suggest that a section of the furniture competition be restricted to 100 per cent hand-made exhibits and without regard to the age of the competitor . |
| 25 | 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence . |
| 26 | This ‘ social constructionism ’ can in turn be linked to that whole shift in critical thinking which has sought to undermine any credibility in the unified subject as a source of meaning , and most crucial here has been the contribution of psychoanalysis . |
| 27 | Now more than ever , an increasingly mobile and multi-racial society demands that consideration be given to sociocultural factors in communicating . |
| 28 | The Director of Education suggested that as the teacher was due to retire soon , consideration be given to possible amalgamation of this school with that at Green Haven , about five miles away . |
| 29 | Would not a massive increase of jobs ensure that training be integrated to economic revival and be more productive in finding work ? |
| 30 | The increasingly complex organization of information within our society demands that training be given to all members of the school population , as opposed to simply those destined for tertiary education , In information retrieval skills . |