Example sentences of "prone to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has its predecessors in the romantic tradition — a tradition which includes the self-important single self nevertheless prone to dispersal and division , invasion and impersonation , which includes the victim and his alter ego . |
| 2 | Amis 's novels have always been full of opinions , and have , I think , become prone to a marked ambiguity of effect , especially with regard to questions of gender and race . |
| 3 | The behaviour of some modern gliders during take-offs and landings is very different to most of the training gliders , and it is vital to understand why they are more prone to swinging . |
| 4 | Modern gliders are more prone to swinging than older aircraft and it is a little more difficult to keep the wings level , so do n't relax until the glider has come to rest . |
| 5 | And the forty-three forces in England and Wales now contain some formidable units , amalgamated out of the small borough , city , and county forces of the pre-1960s , many of which were prone to the whims of corrupt local politicians ( Simey 1988 ) . |
| 6 | He introduced me to the Branch Secretary , Forbes , who I found less congenial , more prone to rhetoric , though at his level I daresay it was expected of him . |
| 7 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 8 | Their drawbacks are that the frames are prone to serious condensation unless a thermal break is incorporated in their construction , and uncoated types may suffer surface corrosion in industrial or coastal areas . |
| 9 | Wood generally , and wooden windows in particular , are prone to rotting . |
| 10 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 11 | While extremely hardwearing , they are n't a good idea if you 're prone to dropping things — the tiles wo n't break , but whatever you drop will . |
| 12 | The breed is prone to occasional stomach troubles and bouts of enteritis so a good-quality diet is essential . |
| 13 | Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error . |
| 14 | He added that people usually pale below the eyes and above the cheek bones , have many dreams including nightmares and hallucinations , suffer disturbed sleep especially at full moon , get up tired and listless , are prone to attacks of flu , and are driven to drink , drugs and heavy smoking . |
| 15 | Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error . |
| 16 | Hatred of Jews is something that the Fascist is especially prone to , but it is n't a necessary consequence of his Fascism , and in any case it 's only a symptom , certainly not the root cause of his disease . |
| 17 | This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought . |
| 18 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 19 | If London had been given time to study these , it would have seen that Smurfit is looking well placed in a world market notoriously prone to cyclical demand . |
| 20 | It can be simply introduced , either by supplementary licensing , with a daily charge to drive in certain areas or by applying more sophisticated under-street and on-vehicle technology that would allow ‘ fine-tuning ’ of the charge according to the need to reduce traffic in particular areas prone to jams or at particularly congested times of day . |
| 21 | Lenny Sinken , a lawyer for the Washington-based Christic Institute , wants the mission delayed for 18 months while Nasa studies alternative power sources or arranges for Galileo to leave Earth on an unmanned rocket , less prone to failure than the shuttle . |
| 22 | This is particularly welcome : the 911 had so much weight concentrated over its tail that it was prone to locking front wheels in the wet . |
| 23 | But , like all professionals , Fisher is prone to the odd upset . |
| 24 | Cut off from regular feeding-points , subjected to atrocious public transport conditions , and more prone to the cold and disease , up to half of the migrants died in transit on the railways . |
| 25 | They were increasingly prone to introspective analysis without a social cutting edge . |
| 26 | Its respective champions were personified by the Permanent Secretary , Sir Douglas Wass , an entrenched mandarin prone to statements like ‘ We 're all Keynesians here ’ , and Mrs Thatcher 's new army of private advisers , monetarist apostles like Terry Burns and , from 1981 , Alan Walters . |
| 27 | The Corrado is decidedly less prone to this . |
| 28 | Among young people , women seem to be more prone to it than men , while research shows that sufferers are generally of slim build and underweight . |
| 29 | This is a noisy , rumbustious film that 's prone to burying itself in hails of gunshots and sheets of flame . |
| 30 | Some have suggested that there are daily rhythms which mirror those of mental performance but which are not as difficult to measure or as prone to interference , and they come up with old standbys , body temperature and adrenalin . |