Example sentences of "be [verb] to [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’ |
| 2 | It has been referred to as the weapon of the strong and not of the weak . |
| 3 | And the process of secularization , which has as one of its fruits the growth of technology , has similarly been referred to as the product of Western Christian civilization and the spirit of Christianity ‘ incognito ’ . |
| 4 | This conserved domain ( aa 30-97 ) has been referred to as the TEA domain ( 9 ) . |
| 5 | This phenomenon has been referred to as the ‘ flypaper effect ’ , so named because money will stick in the sector that it hits — grants to the local public economy will be spent in the local public economy . |
| 6 | Could I just say colleagues that the the General Secretary is proposing that we 're having , we , we , we 're gon na , we gon na have the bucket collection as has been referred to during the course of the debate and it 's recommended that whatever is in the buckets that the union actually doubles the collection . |
| 7 | The close relationship between criterion-referenced assessment and the curriculum has been referred to in the previous section . |
| 8 | Furthermore we have a series of major landscape features , er which are been referred to in the greenbelt local plan and elsewhere as wedges , which you 'll see from the map enter into the very heart of the city itself . |
| 9 | While this is an issue which has been referred to in the literature ( Bourner and Hamed , 1987 ) , it is not one which has been extensively explored with regard to the achievements of non-traditional students , but it is a potentially important measure which requires further investigation . |
| 10 | The position with regard to side letters ( setting out supplemental agreements ) is that they may not be binding as they probably will not have been referred to in the principal agreement . |
| 11 | The magazine could not prove the truth of this statement , which it had sourced to an MI5 report , but it claimed to be able to justify the " sting " of the libel , namely that the plaintiff was a person given to extra-marital affairs , a number of which had been referred to in the article without attracting complaint . |
| 12 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 13 | Argaw Tiruneh , appointed Minister of Housing and Town Development and of Construction , had been referred to by the radio on May 9 as Construction Minister . |
| 14 | The skin and all body orifices are colonised with microorganisms shortly after birth ; indeed , the body acts as ‘ host ’ to these microorganisms which are called commensals , and are referred to as the body 's natural or resident flora . |
| 15 | Interest received by the bank(s) is used , firstly , to meet what are referred to as the funding costs of the loan . |
| 16 | The other explanation put forward for Allende 's defeat was the role of the ‘ privileged ’ , the ‘ bosses ’ and the ruling elite — the transport workers ' strikes which inflicted serious damage on the economy and are referred to as the ‘ bosses ’ strikes ' . |
| 17 | Together , the knowledge of linguistic universals and the innate processing strategies are referred to as the ‘ Language Acquisition Device ’ or LAD . |
| 18 | But these are official figures which do not include what are referred to as the hidden homeless — those sharing households and those living rough . |
| 19 | These are referred to as the oral , anal , and phallic phases . |
| 20 | These are referred to as the first , second , third and fourth bond dissociation enthalpies respectively . |
| 21 | These copies are referred to as the Primary and Secondary copy . |
| 22 | Together PDE1 , PDE2 and the PKA site are referred to as the P box ( 5 ) or the kinase inducible domain ( KID ) ( 4 ) . |
| 23 | Lear was also subject at the hands of his employer to even more glaring misacknowledgements : in what could generously be described as an insensitive oversight , four of the plates in Birds , are referred to at the bottom of the page as being ‘ drawn from Nature and on Stone by J & E Gould ’ , while the style of the bird and the signature on the drawing itself are patently Lear 's . |
| 24 | BGS publications on mineralisation in Great Britain are referred to in the text . |
| 25 | But basic biographical details which are referred to in the letters often receive no mention in the main text . |
| 26 | Such tasks are referred to in the GCSE coursework handbook as " neutral tasks " . |
| 27 | Even these few quotations show that the notion of the ‘ map ’ or ‘ structure ’ of a subject is by no means straightforward , and involves not only the theoretical or conceptual unities which are referred to in the literature on the nature of disciplines ( OECD 1972 ) , but the approach , emphasis and even methods of teaching . |
| 28 | The following cases are referred to in the judgment of their Lordships : |
| 29 | The following cases are referred to in the judgment : |
| 30 | The following cases are referred to in the judgments : |