Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 2 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 3 | The beginning of The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian phase can be traced back to a John Peel session recorded in October 1986 . |
| 4 | Almost the whole development of the law of trusts and its interpretation can be traced back to a combination of two factors : the slight respect of trusts for set legal form ; their independence from an heir and from the will . |
| 5 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 6 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 7 | Today when the primacy of history above all else — the economic , even class conflict — is asserted within a Marxist discourse , together with an accompanying defence of humanism , it can usually be traced back to a Marxism of a Sartrean existentialist form . |
| 8 | The origins of UAPT-Infolink plc can be traced back to a group of traders meeting in coffee houses to exchange their personal experience of bad debtors . |
| 9 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 10 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 11 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 12 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 13 | Once he had returned the white card , a client 's name , address and phone number were Processed into a lead , which would then be given out to a dealer . |
| 14 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 15 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 16 | This is surprising since the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has ruled in that the refusal to engage a pregnant woman and a dismissal on grounds of pregnancy are a form of direct discrimination covered by Council Directive 76/207/ EEC without the necessity to resort to comparisons with the treatment which would be meted out to a man in a comparable situation . |
| 17 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 18 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 19 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 20 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 21 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 22 | Phone bookings should be made up to a fortnight in advance on 0229 66063 . |
| 23 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
| 24 | All pipe materials can be painted : copper can be polished up to a fine shine if you like the ship 's engine room effect . |
| 25 | Once this thesaurus has been devised it will be mapped on to a set of codes , which will allow the information to be communicated electronically throughout the NHS . |
| 26 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
| 27 | This means that the best possible data model can be formulated with the knowledge that it can be mapped on to a DBMS . |
| 28 | A videodisc player can be connected up to a monitor or television set in the same way as a videocassette player . |
| 29 | Very often an organisational problem can be tracked down to a mismatch between an established structure and new processes formed in response to new events and pressures . |
| 30 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |