Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both old age and disability are dimensions of experience which are fundamentally linked to gender ( Morris , 1991 ) . |
| 2 | The central issue which underlies the continuing pattern of human rights violations is that members of the armed forces are rarely brought to justice for the crimes they commit and therefore act with impunity . |
| 3 | This is partly because surgery and drugs have not succeeded in banishing the ‘ diseases of civilisation ’ ( such as cancer , degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular , respiratory and other systems , and allergies ) and there is growing realisation that many of these diseases are intimately related to life styles and attitudes . |
| 4 | Garden centre managers need to know that wildflower seeds have to be grown from native stock ; that highly ornate ‘ mock-Tudor ’ nest-boxes put nestlings ' lives at risk by attracting predators ; that the natural balance of a pond is not best served by chemical algicides ; that salted peanuts are a killer for birds ; that eco-friendly insecticides are a contradiction in terms ; and that wildflowers and buddleias are little help to wildlife if they 're grown in peat-based compost . |
| 5 | Recent historical research has qualified and in many cases disputed the view that increases in crime are necessarily related to urbanization , economic growth or ‘ progress ’ . |
| 6 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 7 | The bullet avoids in this , well very briefly , erm about for half a dozen of them , first of all erm , I 'd like members to be aware of the increasing interest being taken by the Department of Transport in the Ipswich transportation strategy and the Ipswich traffic study before that , the predictions we have from our consultants for the year two thousand and six and particularly their interest in their own trunk road system around Ipswich and the capacity of the Orwell Bridge , so that Department of Transport in Bedford are suddenly come to life to see what 's happening and have requested access to the information we have required from previous investment and consultancy work and the panel of members , the joint panel of members Ipswich , Suffolk recently gave approval to expose for being their findings of our work to the Department of Transport , which I think is a very good move and , and only be of some valuable to us ultimately . |
| 8 | The principles described above still apply in that skills are especially suited to analysis , and can be assessed more easily than the other domains by objective tests . |
| 9 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 10 | The Government generally take the view that matters of pay and hours are better left to negotiation between employers and employees , or by their representatives , and that they should certainly not be dealt with in legislation or in codes of practice provided for in statute . |
| 11 | In the New World , bird species are less restricted to fig species , even if fruit is available continuously , as was found for individuals of two Ficus species in Panama , which , between them , produced fruit all year round . |
| 12 | Similarly there are individuals that go through the court system and are punished , that are perhaps sent to prison , and come out of prison saying it 's not going to make any difference , I now know how to break into every type of car , every type of building . |
| 13 | If the Government are so committed to training , how does the hon. Gentleman explain the letter from the Merseyside TEC to Hexagon Community Ltd. in my constituency , telling it that output-related funding is to be cut by 25 per cent . |
| 14 | Does training in economics make you mean — or is it just that mean people are somehow attracted to economics ? |
| 15 | These are normally presented to Parliament in the previous December , along with the winter supplementary estimates for the previous year . |
| 16 | In mammals , about 50% of the carbohydrates consumed are normally oxidised to carbon dioxide and water to produce energy and about 30 to 40% are converted to fat . |
| 17 | On the other hand , very few checklists have been systematically evaluated in relation to the formal criteria which are normally applied to language tests ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 18 | Head-injured patients are normally admitted to hospital and kept there until it is certain that they are fully fit to return home . |
| 19 | Barns are best suited to operation ; of a ‘ craft ’ nature , rather than larger industrial undertakings . |
| 20 | Almost all companies have decided that these items are best left to specialist manufacturers . |
| 21 | The right to die and the right to help someone to die are surely matters which are best left to discretion and commonsense . |
| 22 | All these systems are largely restricted to text or numeric data . |
| 23 | Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules . |
| 24 | Pictorial designs ( pls 4,40 ) based on scenes taken from life , history or mythology , are largely confined to workshop rugs from Persia ( in particular , Kerman , Tabriz and Kashan ) , India and , to a lesser extent , Pakistan . |
| 25 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 26 | And , Your Feet 's Too Big.John 's problem plates of meat are finally brought to heel . |
| 27 | This applies particularly when the bricks come from Ryarsh 's three complementary ranges — Sandlime , Flintlime , and the Village range , which are generally manufactured to Class 3 strength , which means they are load-bearing . |
| 28 | Their advantages are : they are generally made to measure , so awkward sizes are n't a problem ; they need minimal maintenance ; and they usually have integral weatherstripping . |
| 29 | The true place of inflation in calculating the cost of credit is as part of a triangle which has as its other sides the interest to be gained from instalment savings and the interest to be paid for instalment credit — both of which are broadly related to inflation rates anyway . |
| 30 | Finally , if you are already subscribing to company AVCs , before investing in a new plan check on your present level of contributions and the benefits that these are expected to yield . |