Example sentences of "is [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your stomach feels tender and you have a slight temperature ( cystitis is an infection ) the best remedy is to go to bed with a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel against your stomach . |
| 2 | The doublet is assigned to ionization from the n-non-bonding orbitals of Cl , split by spin-orbit coupling [ see Section 6.6.4 below ] ; the progression is due to ionization from the H-Cl bonding level . |
| 3 | Moreover , the second band shows a progression with a reduced NN stretching frequency , and is assigned to ionization from the π u bonding level . |
| 4 | The Lake District National Park is filled to capacity for much of the summer . |
| 5 | Spending by public sector organisations has to comply with complex and changing legal regulations , and is exposed to scrutiny at a number of levels . |
| 6 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 7 | When dead plant matter is exposed to oxygen in air or water it can be completely decomposed by micro organisms . |
| 8 | In relation to running-down cases or cases where liability is admitted automatic discovery is limited to disclosure by the plaintiff of any documents relating to special damages . |
| 9 | The design process must be managed so that it is completed to quality within cost and time targets and with all necessary decisions having been taken and expressed fully and clearly in specifications and drawings . |
| 10 | The defence is confined to absence of supply , for example where the goods are stolen from the manufacturer or scrapped by him . |
| 11 | The water effluent from the cleaning process is discharged to sewer with a PCB content less than the level in the blood of the general population . |
| 12 | Now Rotherham coroner Stanley Hooper is to write to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 13 | Although he 's only seventeen Chris is committed to art in one form or another as something he intends to stick with for life . |
| 14 | Although the party is committed to freedom of information and devolution , it is not interested in proportional representation which would revitalise the political system . |
| 15 | There does seem to be a case , therefore , for some work in initial training to be based on a general language section or sub- department which is committed to presentation of language issues , and considering their relevance in schools and other institutions . |
| 16 | The Trust is committed to training for work and we hope that the difficulties involved in funded training can continue to be tackled creatively in partnership with the TECs . |
| 17 | Magee , elevated to unique status when he won a Bass Irish Cup medal on Tuesday night , is committed to football for most of the summer . |
| 18 | Generally , notation from the Tables is added to notation in the schedules to make a more specific number . |
| 19 | SCENE OF SLAUGHTER : A woman victim is carried to safety amid the terror of the massacre |
| 20 | For homesexual males , the annual incidence of AIDS is expected to plateau in 1994 in line with a peak annual incidence of HIV infection in 1983–84 . |
| 21 | The Hyundai HWS-SS10–41 , with the same configuration is expected to debut at $19,000 — Sun 's Model 41 costs $27,000 . |
| 22 | Its Win/U answer to the problem is expected to debut as a commercial product by the end of the year and is claimed to be a step ahead of rival technologies because it requires no Windows source code , see page four . |
| 23 | Since the first signs of a contraction in the employment base of manufacturing in the 1960s , the question of what is happening to manufacturing in the UK has rapidly become one of central importance . |
| 24 | The government 's formal reply to these reports is presented to Parliament by the Treasury in the form of a Treasury minute , and the reports and minutes are debated annually in the House . |
| 25 | The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery , or under primitive conditions . |
| 26 | The change in the attitude to the appointment of barrister-politicians as judges is said to date from Lord Haldane 's Chancellorship ( 1912–15 ) when legal and professional qualifications became the criteria , though at first the change was not extended to the most senior appointments . |
| 27 | Note that the levels of branching are arbitrary and no precise metric is applied to distance between the nodes . |
| 28 | Is n't the truth of Canguilhem 's claim that philosophy is on ‘ the side of the people and of the born non-specialists ’ ( 1980 : 49 ) , even more debatable , when it is applied to psychoanalysis of any kind ? |
| 29 | Mr Henry McLeish , who was a Scottish front bench spokesman , is transferred to employment under the leadership of Mr Tony Blair . |
| 30 | Otherwise not only will results concerning group size and composition be misleading , but results involving any variable that is related to size of group are likely to be inaccurate . |