Example sentences of "they are [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lightweight dinghies should n't be used unless they are tethered to the shore , ’ said Peter Race . |
| 2 | However we make sure that they are manufactured to the latest BSI standards using only the best quality materials . |
| 3 | ‘ They are geared to the narrow dimensions of their own sports . |
| 4 | Its eyes are ten times more sensitive to light than our own and , as they are tuned to the colour of the undersea world , they see a very different view from the one familiar to divers . |
| 5 | In May or June they are secured to the top of the stakes in a bush-like fashion similar to the Goblet system practised in Beaujolais . |
| 6 | Their life-style is dominated by the tides rather than the sun and they are adjusted to the tidal , not the solar , day . |
| 7 | The theory was first put forward by H R Buchanan in his Manual of Psychometry in 1889 , when he argued that all objects contain the history of the world because they are connected to the Akashic Chronicles . |
| 8 | In this case , they are loss of AC power and loss of DC power , and they are connected to the ‘ top ’ event by an ‘ OR ’ gate to indicate this feature . |
| 9 | They are connected to the rest mass through the relation given in Section 1.3 : This intimate connection of mass , energy and momentum suggests that a general law of gravitation will contain not just mass but energy and momentum as well . |
| 10 | Women will no longer accept that they are relegated to the kitchen or are treated as machines for the production of children . |
| 11 | They are fixed to the top of the existing uprights . |
| 12 | But whether they are sent to the third world or torn into rags or |
| 13 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
| 14 | The cards are now flicked through and , sure enough , each of the cards has turned over , and they are given to the children to hold before being collected . |
| 15 | ( 8 ) The text of the tender advertisement must be cleared with the Quotations Department if the offer is made on the London Stock Exchange but otherwise with the Panel and copies of the final text must be given to both at the same time as they are given to the newspapers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Any major broker must be in the U K because er er they are exposed to the public view if you like , and if there are any errors or , or deceptions then they 're likely to come up very quickly . |
| 18 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 19 | However , there are a number of attractive and promising schemes under very active development at the moment , but the sea is such a hostile environment — it 's corrosive , force is involved for anything sitting on the surface as they are exposed to the force of the waves which is colossal , and if they are on the sea bed then perhaps there are maintenance problems , and getting the electricity ashore has not yet been solved . |
| 20 | When the fish is moving at speed and they are not required they are clamped to the fish 's sides fitting exactly into depressions and grooves on the surface . |
| 21 | This will not be surprising since it has by now become apparent that such adjectives inhabit a very restricted niche in the world of English syntax ; in fact they are limited to the prenominal attributive position . |
| 22 | They are limited to the interpretation of provisions of acts of Parliament . |
| 23 | Low-income families are put at grave risk and local authorities are unable to administer the housing benefit system efficiently because they are tied to the 20 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ The workload of doctors by day has reached the level where they are pushed to the limits at night . |
| 25 | On the completion of Sasine and other Record Volumes by the Department of the Registers of Scotland they are transmitted to the Scottish Record Office for their preservation . |
| 26 | Desires experienced at the level of practical consciousness are sometimes hard to assess because they are welded to the objects making up habitual routines . |
| 27 | They are related to the larger group of long-horned cattle in Andalusia and perhaps also the longhorns of Britain and the ancient Hamitic long-horned cattle which migrated into Africa . |
| 28 | Linguistically and culturally they are related to the Semai about whom Robarchek is writing in this volume . |
| 29 | They are related to the greenhouse " geraniums " or pelargoniums and , like them , need protection against cold . |
| 30 | At Mount Stewart in County Down Lady Londonderry let rip with an amazing ensemble of whimsical statues but they avoid seeming a jumble by the purposeful way in which they are related to the whole garden design . |