Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] be " in BNC.

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1 The primary reason for admission to ICU is chosen from a number of diagnoses .
2 The criteria for response to treatment were : HBeAg seroconversion and serum HBV-DNA negativity .
3 Standards for exposure to benzene are expected by the UK government to be set in 1993 : a level of 3 ppb is under consideration , although according to the World Health Organization there is " no known safe threshold dose " .
4 A student who offered shopowners immunity from the activities of ragweek in return for donations to charity was held by the trial judge not to have used menaces .
5 The median time for return to employment was 18 days .
6 Human beings generally consider life to function best when that ratio of male to female is relatively even .
7 The degree of resistance to temptation was taken as an indication of the effectiveness of the punishment applied .
8 The most important aspect of the work of SERRL to date is centred on the building and maintenance of an integrated settlement and infrastructure database for South East England ( Shepherd and Conway , 1988 ) .
9 A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society .
10 The relative proportion of silt to clay is remarkably uniform at about six to four ; it is the sand fraction that varies most .
11 Even directly below high-voltage lines levels of exposure to EMF were lower than the safety guidelines issued by the National Radiological Protection Board .
12 The position was well illustrated by the ENB in their publicity about the introduction of the Central Clearing House : " The majority of recruits to nursing are girls aged 18–19 .
13 It is now generally agreed that some kind of predisposition to schizophrenia is inherited , but that certain environmental factors will increase the likelihood that the disorder will occur and recur .
14 Martin Lester 's largest set of legs to date are no less than 20 metres ( 65ft ) long !
15 Though Eliot refuses to treat the uneducated merely as ‘ savages ’ , his essential ideas about the indispensable contribution of religion to culture are presented as being derived from the study of a less complex model .
16 The normal range of responses to testing was taken from 47 studies carried out on normal healthy volunteers .
17 The converse of barriers to entry are barriers to exit : it may cost firms more to quit than to stay in the market .
18 The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment .
19 A third form of assistance to industry is the improvement of information .
20 A recent unusual match of consultant to client is the work carried out by the University 's Centre for Field Archaeology for Shell Chemicals UK Ltd .
21 But if the application of law to fact is not clear , you need not state a definite opinion or even ‘ submit ’ that the position is so-and-so .
22 Because of the flooding of mines in the Donets valley the supply of fuel to industry was reduced to a trickle , as Deutscher noted :
23 And if proof were needed that an alternative supply of fuel to coal was vital , it came during the historically lengthy strike of 1984–5 .
24 The relation of patron to artist is examined , as are the stylistic influences that shaped Mughal art : the Persian heritage , the discovery of western art , the elegance and aestheticism of the Mughal court , the painters of ascetics and the India of the mystics , the development of realistic portraiture during the seventeenth century and the discovery of chiaroscuro .
25 The motives behind these uniform statements of allegiance to youth were undoubtedly mixed and complex .
26 The EXAFS for Si in glass reveals itself as the ‘ wiggles ’ following the absorption threshold , seen clearly in Figure 2. the case for the application of EXAFS to glass is overwhelming .
27 Social work with young people in the transition to or in search of alternatives to employment is one specific task singled out ( s. 13 ) and makes reference to material provision ( accommodation ) as well as to counselling and advice .
28 Its ratio of costs to income was a miserly 40% last year , good even for a thrift ; most banks would be proud of a figure below 60% .
29 The types of reaction to food are also very varied .
30 World cotton consumption was a record 86m bales , and the ratio of stocks to consumption was at an all-time low .
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