Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE bitter tussle between Russia 's parliament and government appeared to be drawing to a close last night after preliminary approval was given to a compromise that would allow President Yeltsin 's administration to continue its reforms . |
| 2 | The era of the passive media consumer — or ‘ couch potato ’ — may be drawing to a close if they discoveries of the ingenious Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are any indication . |
| 3 | The boxes both have six SIMM slots and can be incremented to a maximum 96Mb. +1 408 432–0292 |
| 4 | Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) . |
| 5 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
| 6 | The reasons for a separation and its temporary nature can be explained to a ten-year-old child , so that anxiety can again be minimised . |
| 7 | Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger . |
| 8 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 9 | Faults can range from the merely inconvenient , when water spills out of sagging or blocked gutters on to unsuspecting people underneath , to the more serious problem of penetrating damp , where peeling decorations and damp patches inside the house can often be traced to a leaking gutter or downpipe outside . |
| 10 | In every one of the cases to which your Lordships have been referred where such dicta appear , the source from which the evidence sought to be excluded had been obtained has been the defendant himself or ( in some of the search cases ) premises occupied by him ; and the dicta can be traced to a common ancestor in Lord Goddard 's statement in Kuruma v. The Queen [ 1955 ] A.C. 197 which I have already cited . |
| 11 | At a later stage , if errors are found in the procedure 's performance which can not be traced to a falling within the local system , it may be necessary to examine these influencing factors further , for instance the design of the form might be inadequate for the accurate recording of information , a factor outside the direct control of the section involved . |
| 12 | His psychological theorizing developed throughout his life , but many of the assumptions he made can be traced to an early work , the " Project for a Scientific Psychology " . |
| 13 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 14 | Andersons 's insistence that the notion of social class must be defined in structural terms can be traced to an over-riding commitment to holism . |
| 15 | The effect of these provisions is , in our judgment , that if an account contains items of litigation costs or non-litigation costs the items can be referred to a taxing master for taxation i.e. for the taxing master to decide what amount is recoverable in respect thereof . |
| 16 | However , you can ask for a review of the decision , and if you are still not satisfied you can ask for your situation to be referred to a social fund inspector . |
| 17 | This was followed by a second resolution , proposed by Dent ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) and seconded by J Paul ( Ayrshire ) to the effect : That the matter of this Association be referred to a special committee consisting of the President of this Conference ( the Rev W B Sleight ) as Chairman , and twelve gentlemen ( six deaf and dumb and six hearing ) . |
| 18 | It remains our conviction that the umpires have done their conscientious best throughout the summer , and that only ‘ line decisions ’ ( run-outs , stumpings , boundary incidents ) should be referred to a third umpire who has a TV playback monitor . |
| 19 | If individuals have personal difficulties that do not impinge on their functioning at work they can be assessed under this agreement : the individual would then be referred to an appropriate specialist agency for ongoing work outside the agreement , on a personal basis and without commitment on RBGE 's part . |
| 20 | Questions , however , might arise about whether a dispute is a valuation/technical dispute to be referred to an expert or one that should be referred to an arbitral tribunal or the court . |
| 21 | The headnote in the Weekly Law Reports is wrong : it states that the lease provided that disputes were to be referred to arbitration , whereas in fact the lease between Ipswich and Fisons said that if Fisons did not accept Ipswich 's terms the matter should be referred to an independent expert . |
| 22 | In the event of any dispute or difference between the parties hereto concerning any matter of thing arising under this agreement such dispute or difference shall be referred to an independent surveyor agreed between the parties hereto or in default of agreement to a surveyor appointed for the purpose on the application of either party by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall act as an arbitrator pursuant to the Arbitration Acts 1950 to 1979 or any statutory re-enactment thereof for the time being in force |
| 23 | There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ How can he be a Copt and bring money to be given to a Moslem for the Moslem to use against the Copts ? ’ |
| 25 | In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay . |
| 26 | It is the name that can be given to a historical construct . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player . |
| 28 | As always , proceeds will be given to a local charity . |
| 29 | Social workers may be involved in bargaining with carers over how much assistance can be given to an elderly person , and how much support from services may be required to make the situation manageable for them all . |
| 30 | So , for example , the practitioner has no guidance on the weight which will be given to an admissible ministerial statement that a situation is not covered by one clause but is covered by another that is in conflict with a construction based on textual examination of the legislation as a whole . |