Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] 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 | The median time for return to employment was 18 days . |
| 5 | Human beings generally consider life to function best when that ratio of male to female is relatively even . |
| 6 | The degree of resistance to temptation was taken as an indication of the effectiveness of the punishment applied . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The relative proportion of silt to clay is remarkably uniform at about six to four ; it is the sand fraction that varies most . |
| 10 | Even directly below high-voltage lines levels of exposure to EMF were lower than the safety guidelines issued by the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 14 | A third form of assistance to industry is the improvement of information . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Because of the flooding of mines in the Donets valley the supply of fuel to industry was reduced to a trickle , as Deutscher noted : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The motives behind these uniform statements of allegiance to youth were undoubtedly mixed and complex . |
| 21 | The types of reaction to food are also very varied . |
| 22 | He is aware that as his Property Services Department ( Grounds Maintenance ) has successfully bid for the Lincolnshire contract , his quality of service to school is a key element in our future preparedness to pay our bill . |
| 23 | It was considered triple-purpose : the big oxen put to the plough , the cows milked and the steers fattened to feed ( specifically ) the mining and industrial areas of the Midlands and south Wales ; the meat was produced in large joints but the proportion of bone to meat was high and the bone coarse . |
| 24 | This again raises the temperature and pressure , until the thermonuclear burning of helium to carbon is ignited . |
| 25 | The ratio of sample to population is normally expressed as a fraction , known as the sampling fraction . |
| 26 | In response to this line of thought it may well be pointed out that the subordination of woman to man is depicted in scripture as having resulted from the fall . |
| 27 | Likewise , they are prepared to make allowance for the fact that certain scientific facts about the world were not known , or for example that the biological relation of woman to man was misunderstood . |
| 28 | In the Bedfordshire village of Cardington in 1752 the activity rate among females of age to work was a very high 82 per cent . |
| 29 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 30 | And this process of commitment to literacy is best and most easily established early in life . |