Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some find great benefit in identifying a small group of staff who for a limited period are assigned to a relief pool , for the sole purpose of filling unexpected gaps in staffing or adding strength to a ward team at times of peak workload . |
| 2 | Trainees of the scheme are assigned to a Mentor [ a senior member of staff with chartered status ] who acts as a professional guide and confidante . |
| 3 | They are assigned to a team and introduced ( if that 's the word ) to their team leader . |
| 4 | Bribes are given to a child for stopping behaving badly , but rewards are given for behaving well . |
| 5 | Star of the show is the Vulcan and viewers are treated to a tour around the cockpit with S/L Paul Millikin . |
| 6 | Although we are treated to a number of informative step-by-step demonstrations of work in progress , the real value of the book lies in the breathtaking range of styles , subject matter and techniques , which demonstrate the extraordinary versatility of pastels . |
| 7 | On arrival guests are treated to a cup of tea or coffee by the charming Jan Slater . |
| 8 | Places are allocated on a strictly first come first served basis , and are limited to a maximum of 16 places , some of which are already allocated . |
| 9 | Those design registrations are limited to a maximum of 10 years . |
| 10 | The small number of pupils at the boarding school , just 125 , means class sizes are limited to a maximum of 10 . |
| 11 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 12 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 13 | Intellectual property agreements , such as know-how licences , sometimes contain provisions referring questions about the level of royalties to an accountant , unless the issues are technical in which case they are referred to a patent agent . |
| 14 | Whereas this job , although it centres around the similar sort of thing , has become much more diverse particularly in the last three or four years with our involvement with deposit of poisonous waste and site licensing … ; planning applications are referred to a lot more now than when I first started . |
| 15 | Propositions , therefore , in which objects are referred to a class , because they possess the attributes constituting the class , are so far from asserting nothing but resemblance at all … |
| 16 | For women it matters less whether they are referred to a gynaecologist or a urologist than that they are referred to someone with an interest in urinary incontinence . |
| 17 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 18 | Students are exposed to a variety of different accents on the cassettes and are provided with standard business documents and practice material in the books . |
| 19 | It is usual to buy electronic organs ‘ off the shelf ’ , but larger instruments are designed to a customer 's specification and to suit particular buildings . |
| 20 | They are let to a tenant who is responsible to the landlord for the whole rent , and who sublets such rooms as she can do without in order to get enough money for the rent-collector . |
| 21 | He has also advertised a collection of Odes ; and for his Vanity and Faculty of Lying , they are come to a Jayl , or Bedlam , and that without any help … . ’ |
| 22 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
| 23 | One the flour and water are mixed to a paste , it takes about 10 minutes for the heat to develop . |
| 24 | Crime , vandalism and delinquency are confined to a minority , handful they said , in a district where the majority of folk want to lead decent lives in peace and quiet . |
| 25 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 26 | Both give us the sense of oppression and lack of freedom ; if you are confined to a region , you can only move around in that region . |
| 27 | Instead , games fanatics are confined to a diet of stodgy adventure packages and simulation of anything from building and ant hill in the back garden to creating life forms . |
| 28 | Even if your painting activities are confined to a week 's holiday , preparing yourself by looking into a range of information can be invaluable . |
| 29 | If the images are confined to a box area covering no more than a 15 or 20 per cent of the whole screen , the data volumes required are again correspondingly reduced . |
| 30 | The above example illustrates how conjunctions which are typically used in Arabic discourse are added to a translation to make it smoother , even when no conjunctions are used in the source text . |