Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to the [det] " in BNC.

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1 If a clone has also been used as a probe then the program also checks if the probe and clone are assigned to the same contig .
2 And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work .
3 What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion .
4 Erm the the public at large in Selby district have er been consulted to the same degree that that that all er districts were involved in the Greater York study .
5 By and large , the soil-dwelling enemies of the rose are confined to the several kinds of chafer .
6 Provided atomic individuals are mapped to the same role-slot in one representation , then plural reference is possible , and provided they map to different role-slots in another ( simultaneously ) , then singular references are possible .
7 The questions in the checklist are related to the same concepts as in the full SCAN event-by-event analysis , but the pace is more relaxed ( see 6A and 6E ) .
8 A large number of lower attainers treat decimals as whole numbers , a strategy that " works ' when they are written to the same number of decimal places .
9 Had the numbers been written to the same number of decimal places all those ignoring decimal Points would have got the correct answers , producing artificially high success rates .
10 We 're attracted to the same sort of subject matter ; I think that 's it is n't it ?
11 It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously .
12 It ‘ has not been reflected to the same extent in the fortunes of the chemical industry ’ reported Richard Freeman , ICI 's chief economist and chairman of the CIA Economic Appraisal Committee and Cefic 's Economic Outlook Working Party .
13 Both plans are drawn to the same scale .
14 The scale of values used to draw a graph is very important if you are to read it accurately , Look at the same advertising graphs again , this time both are drawn to the same scale .
15 Where bank affairs are closely tied to the fortunes of their leading customers through shared group affiliation , the lending bank and the borrowing company are bound to the same fate which makes unilateral changes in loan terms much less likely .
16 Rather than concentrating on a bottom line which shows the profit attributable to shareholders , the value added statement is concerned with how much value the entity has added through its operations and how that added value has been distributed to the many resource providers .
17 The ( AC ) and ( GT ) tracts are protected to the same extent , even though bleomycin shows no cleavage of the AC regions .
18 The Art Newspaper 's sources in Russia have , however , confirmed that Ivan 's treasure has been found to the same extent as the Loch Ness monster .
19 We will make sure , too , that imports are reduced to the same levels as they were under the Labour Government .
20 The detail , then , is in this sense gratuitous , but it has its effect : Wilekin buys Margery with the same money that Dame Sirith can use to buy animals ; the bargains , and the items bought , are reduced to the same level .
21 The receptors are linked to the same area of the brain as the eyes , and so the fish can probably visualise these electric patterns , although they would only form a crude , shadowy image .
22 The tiled roof over the single south aisle was stripped off and partly replaced with bronze-coloured aluminium glazing bars framing bronze-tinted ‘ anti-sun ’ glass , the upper panels of which are laid to the same slope as the original roof , the lower panels producing a range of shallow vertical windows , the combination of which gives ‘ conservatory ’ lighting to the first floor flats ( Plate 23 ) .
23 The roots for such zeal can be traced to the many dress reform movements of the nineteenth century of which the shared goal was to alleviate the pressure of fashion on dress , both for men and women .
24 The team studied one aspect of consistency — consistency across time by constructing parallel tests * to be given to the same group of pupils on different occasions .
25 But he conceded that rising gas prices , while the cost of coal was falling , could mean further developments of gas-fired stations may not be justified to the same extent in future .
26 Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment .
27 At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult .
28 It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other .
29 Similarly , the two lexical units represented by brilliant in John is brilliant and This is a brilliant book are to be assigned to the same lexeme , the evidence being the recurrence of the relation with confused , angry , bitter , etc .
30 For instance , there is no spectrum connecting the two senses of expire , so their lexical units would not be assigned to the same lexeme .
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