Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker 's appointment as reader ( upgraded to professor in 1860 ) was significant , for he was the first to hold the post in its own right , rather than annexed to a professorship in another subject . |
| 2 | Although confined to a wheelchair for most of her life , Violet was active in church life and helped out with a local Brownie pack . |
| 3 | Although converted to a bus garage in 1956 , it was reopened to trams in 1963 , following the closure of Marton Depot . |
| 4 | Perhaps the mosaic is correctly dated if assigned to a period of c. 300-330 . |
| 5 | They can suffer if exposed to a temperature of 1–2°C for long periods , therefore minimising water movement in the winter to maintain a warm deep layer of water , is important . |
| 6 | Importunity or threats , such as the testator has not the courage to resist , moral command asserted and yielded to for the sake of peace and quiet , or of escaping from distress of mind or social discomfort , these , if carried to a degree in which the free play of the testator 's judgment , discretion or wishes , is overborne , will constitute undue influence , though no force is either used or threatened . |
| 7 | He defined trade secrets ( at p425 a-j ) as : ( a ) information used in the trade or business ; ( b ) of which the owner limits the dissemination or at least does not encourage or permit widespread publication ; ( c ) and which if disclosed to a competitor would be liable to cause real or significant harm to the owner of the secret . |
| 8 | Note that we can not eradicate the modifier " pragmatically given " in these definitions : an utterance of ( 71 ) may have quite different implications of precision if said to a crane operator in contrast to a fellow surgeon . |
| 9 | How , though , would the method used here perform if applied to a subject right in the middle of complex situational change , where the social formation and the musical culture are characterized precisely by heterogeneity and seemingly transient affiliations ? |
| 10 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 11 | Their value is 200 GCs if sold to a collector ; non-collectors wo n't buy them at any price . |
| 12 | This road crosses a bare headland , leaving behind all the exciting scenery , and seven miles further on curves round to the coast and enters the village of Achiltibuie , continuing beyond past other smaller communities until brought to a stop by the steep slopes of Ben More Coigach , the huge mountain dominating both land and sea hereabouts . |
| 13 | Many Sinhalese viewed flogging as suitable for low-caste persons ; it was considered much more demeaning if administered to a man of high caste . |
| 14 | But as if fixed to a wall there . |
| 15 | After wide debate , the majority of the Branches were in favour of extending the mandatory requirement of CPD to all members , but such a proposal is unlikely to get the support of the membership if put to a referendum . |
| 16 | Liquids on the other hand flow if subjected to a stress ; they do not store the energy but dissipate it almost entirely as heat and thus possess high damping characteristics . |
| 17 | Well folks , Here is my virgin entry into the world of the Leeds-United mailing list ( not counting my plea for the Leeds-Crewe score on Saturday whilst shackled to a PC ) . |
| 18 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 19 | Now that preparations had been completed for Artai 's enthronement there was very little to do , and the normal business of the court — administration , legislation , taxation — had all but come to a halt . |
| 20 | To make matters worse , the Czech-Slovak clearing system has also all but ground to a halt and simple financial transactions between companies in the two the states are currently taking one to two months to complete , according to local businessmen . |
| 21 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 22 | It was said that if a claim is directed to a technical process which is carried out under the control of a program ( whether implemented in the hardware or the software ) , then the claim can not be regarded as related to a computer program as such . |
| 23 | However , while the result might well be the same , the reasoning of the Court of Appeal is to be preferred ; complete impartiality could not be expected and the term impartiality when used in the context of a minister making a decision such as the siting of a new town , would not necessarily be the same as when applied to a magistrate deciding a case of nuisance . |
| 24 | When applied to a case study , involving the overlay of three maps of Papua New Guinea containing 7 , 42 and 101 polygons respectively , the output map was comprised of 304 polygons , of which those less than 3.8 km² ; ; amounted to 38 per cent of the total area . |
| 25 | While there may be some doubt whether such provision will continue in future salary settlements , the University remains firmly of the view that the majority of these arrangements , at least as regards academic staff , are an inadequate substitute for satisfactory levels of general salary increase when applied to a university in which virtually all staff are of the highest quality . |
| 26 | When applied to a sequence of tableaux optimal over a degenerate interval , this process can be interpreted as applying the simplex method restricted to the critical columns . |
| 27 | The desire of politicians to control annual outcomes in this way was unrealistic when applied to a policy in which the industry 's own long-term objectives ( in this case overcoming the capacity backlog ) were in conflict . |
| 28 | On 10 March 1779 Wasbrough was granted a patent ( no. 1,213 ) for a ‘ machine , which when applied to a steam-engine or any perpendicular motion … will cause such movement to become circular , without the medium of a water-wheel , for grinding wheat and other grain , and for grinding , rolling , hammering , and other uses in mechanical operations ’ . |
| 29 | Rise and fall pendants are ideal above dining areas , especially when connected to a dimmer switch . |
| 30 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |