Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 The changes in O 3 concentrations are predominantly confined to the latitude band of injections in July .
2 The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape .
3 Both Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock are widely perceived to be liabilities to their parties .
4 Quasars are widely believed to be the cores of young galaxies .
5 The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it .
6 Both old age and disability are dimensions of experience which are fundamentally linked to gender ( Morris , 1991 ) .
7 Sections 2 – 3 are expressly restricted to legally enforceable liabilities .
8 We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time .
9 In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms .
10 In fact , many people are effectively tied to rural areas because of their own or their spouse 's occupation , and residential choice is not free as envisaged in the theoretical residential decision-making models .
11 Part of the reason for this is , again , the way in which women are effectively confined to the home at least for some part of their lives .
12 Cars and lorries in Britain are effectively subsidised to the tune of £20 million annually .
13 The hydra 's nervous system is like a telephone exchange whereby whatever number you dial you are eventually connected to all other subscribers .
14 When Mr and Mrs Bloggs are eventually summoned to the teacher 's desk they are asked what they thought of the work .
15 We tested the assumption that most patients with presenile Alzheimer 's disease are eventually admitted to psychiatric hospital .
16 The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born .
17 First , he is wrong to assume that the policy to which he refers is espoused only by the Government : until now , there has been a bipartisan commitment to ensuring that mentally ill people receive care and facilities that are properly attuned to their needs .
18 Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression .
19 They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor .
20 The third group comprises the European fossils that are mostly attributed to the genus Dryopithecus .
21 Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge .
22 In recent years evidence has begun to accumulate that the learning opportunities which project or topic work presents are rarely exploited to the full .
23 Afghan rugs employing the typical Afghan " Elephant 's foot " ( or Gulli ) gul are rarely referred to as Bokharas , and are usually marketed under the name of the weaving village , district or tribe , or simply as Afghan rugs .
24 Paper records exist in the various departments , but they tend to be self-monitored , and are rarely referred to by other departments .
25 I have noticed in this puritan America of ours that beautiful women are rarely permitted to be clever .
26 Radiators are rarely used to their greatest effect .
27 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 .
28 Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches .
29 In other words , according to the neurophysiological CTP , sensation , perception , experience , consciousness , are intimately related to , or even boil down to , large numbers of trains or patterns of nerve impulses .
30 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 .
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