Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alcohol can be blended with petrol to a proportion of up to 20% alcohol and run in a conventional car engine without adjustment . |
| 2 | Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises . |
| 3 | Thus , to the primary objective : the production of a new OED for the twenty-first century ; we must add a second objective : the electronic handling and delivery of the information contained in and added to the OED , so that the latter is able to be altered in response to changes in the language . |
| 4 | Although the programme could be altered from day to day , it is expected that objectors ' evidence will begin the following Tuesday . |
| 5 | The standard letter below should be used in all cases and should not be amended without reference to CFSU . |
| 6 | Given the inclusion of so many considerations , it is not surprising that standards may be amended from time to time : for example , standards may be made more stringent if new scientific research reveals a lower threshold of effect than was previously believed to exist . |
| 7 | The contents of this handbook may be amended from time to time . |
| 8 | In spite of promising prospects for the future , it has so far been a complementary course , to be undertaken in addition to the main course of study . |
| 9 | Slow , rhythmic or stretching exercises should be undertaken in preference to jogging and jumping-about type exercises . |
| 10 | This should be undertaken from time to time with assistance in recruiting , training expansion of groups and also with Liturgical experiences . |
| 11 | Another problem arose in 1916 , which can not easily be explained without reference to the proposed ‘ Home Rule ’ in Ireland that had developed under the government of Asquith which introduced the Home Rule Act 1914 . |
| 12 | The success of the Peronist movement and , to a lesser extent , of Vargas and Cárdenas , in gaining widespread acceptance for their visions of national unity can not be explained without reference to a second major element of the Latin American political tradition which is related to corporatism and which also cuts across class-based Marxist politics : caudillismo , and its modern corollary , populism . |
| 13 | Thus the overshadowing effect can be explained without recourse to the mechanisms usually supposed to be responsible for it in associative learning ( but see Pearce 1987 ) . |
| 14 | This relationship can best be explained with reference to Fig. 4.10 : the shape and position of the curve are determined by the following factors : |
| 15 | As fearful , angry , brave , quarrelsome , competitive , kind , generous , cooperative etc. do not exist in the world as measurable qualities , but humans as social beings may develop all , or none , to varying extents , so social behaviour like war can only be explained with reference to complex social factors , not to some assumed universal inner state . |
| 16 | Similarly , the notion of collocation may be explained with reference to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionaries of Current English ( OALD ) : |
| 17 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent will now be explained with reference to computer technology , followed by a consideration of the exclusions and their impact , especially with respect to computer software . |
| 18 | Gassendi does not claim , of course , that it is any more than a hypothesis that the properties , changes , and actions of things are to be explained by reference to their atomic parts . |
| 19 | I would , therefore , suggest that consent is to be explained by reference to its purported normative consequences only . |
| 20 | It seems likely , too , that several other distinctive features of the church will eventually be explained by reference to the temple . |
| 21 | The positive side of the local sign theory is an expression of the faith that such abilities can be explained by reference to processes ( of inference from observed correlations , and so on ) which are themselves conscious . |
| 22 | In a few cases , the continued support for a political party can be explained by reference to an historical connection . |
| 23 | This huge deficit can be explained by reference to the growth of demand within the USA which has drawn an increasing volume of imports . |
| 24 | This latter is a piece of independent evidence , which is distinct from the actions , such as masturbation or thumb-sucking or the hysterical symptoms of neurotics , which are to be explained by reference to the concept of sexual instincts . |
| 25 | Some of those courts have seized upon the use of the word ‘ send ’ in Article 10(a) , as opposed to ‘ serve ’ ; although this distinction could be explained by reference to civil law ideas of formal service as opposed to informal delivery , these courts have concluded that Article 10(a) does not allow effective ‘ service ’ in Japan . |
| 26 | The falsification of Kepler 's speculation that the spacing of the planetary orbits could be explained by reference to Plato 's five regular solids does not mark one of the significant landmarks in the progress of physics . |
| 27 | In any event , cases in which neither misrepresentation nor undue influence play any part can not , in my opinion , be explained by reference to the debtor husband 's status as agent for the creditor . |
| 28 | The conclusion to be derived from the above is that the overdevelopment of the bureaucracy in the post-colonial state can only be explained by reference to factors which render other political institutions impotent . |
| 29 | Social psychoanalysis , by contrast , takes the view that contemporary character should not merely be explained by reference to contemporary culture and childrearing , but that in any society contemporary childrearing and culture are the consequences of historical changes and that the contemporary individual recapitulates the cultural past and therefore , by a sort of reverse neoteny , experiences in his childhood the traumas and stages of ego- and superego-development which occurred in the adult lives of his ancestors . |
| 30 | Van den Boogard concentrated his study on revealing characteristics shared by the Anglo-Norman fabliaux which could be explained by reference to the peculiar situation of the Anglo-Norman community . |