Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute 's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken . |
| 2 | These are useful lessons which should be equally applicable to future attempts at securing organisational improvements through computerisation . |
| 3 | I do not see why these opportunities should be less available to young people simply because they are in public care . |
| 4 | In such ontological circumstances this allegedly public service must be singularly unsuited to objective assessment of any external demands for a reduction in its power or to encompassing any critical analysis which might cause loss of prestige . |
| 5 | I suppose English food must be quite different to Vietnamese food . |
| 6 | Now that we have the means to observe samples of language which must be fairly close to representative samples , the clear messages are : a ) We are teaching English in ignorance of a vast amount of basic fact . |
| 7 | Secondary claims must be more attractive to surplus units ( the personal sector ) than direct claims on deficit units . |
| 8 | And if you went to General Accident and looked at their actuarial tables , they might be slightly different to other groups , but in that sense |
| 9 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 10 | It has been a less serious factor in the French-speaking countries where European traders and shopkeepers continue to operate small businesses , although these could be periodically subject to local political pressures including arbitrary taxation . |
| 11 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 12 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 13 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 14 | The third group contains elements that are peripheral to this schema but could be more central to other schemas , such as our current conceptualisation of the solar system . |
| 15 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 16 | Overall differences , which have been found in other studies , may be partly due to black people tending to live in areas of social deprivation . |
| 17 | It is also a question of equity , both within the current generation — poor inner-city children may be most vulnerable to arrested development caused by inhaling lead-polluted air — and across generations . |
| 18 | Recent experimental work has suggested that lipoproteins ( VLDL ) obtained from diabetic animals ( streptozotocin diabetic rats ) may be more toxic to cultured porcine endothelial cells than lipoproteins obtained from control animals . |
| 19 | Both Conté and Faber-Castell offer these crayons in a pencil format , which may be more applicable to refined , detailed drawing work . |
| 20 | The goal here is to illustrate the general contention set out in this book that in order to use regions in geography ( as against practising regional geography ) it is necessary to appreciate what the salient features of a region ( or place ) are — some of which may be more important to particular research tasks than others . |
| 21 | One theory to explain this is that the pigmentation of the skin may affect the sensitivity of the nerve-endings , so that chestnuts may be more sensitive to outside stimuli than say bays , therefore making them more likely to over-react . |
| 22 | There are , however , suggestions that reaction time may be more sensitive to visual field differences than accuracy scores ( White , 1972 ) . |
| 23 | Further complications are created by the fact that secret explicit collusion may be observationally equivalent to tacit collusion given surveillance methods constrained by considerations of ‘ liberty and justice ’ . |
| 24 | These concepts are endemic to geography , but they may be quite foreign to other workers . |
| 25 | In the LFAs , grants would be additionally available to part-time farmers . |
| 26 | The sounds , as we have already said , must have provided a constant cacophonous background to the daily round , while the smell of a street which included a butcher and chandler 's shop , stables , a smithy , clothiers , workshops and a liberal supply of earth closets would be scarcely credible to modern sensibilities . |
| 27 | Entertainments including music , singing and dancing held in the lower cafe part of the Priory would be even closer to residential properties in the village square and thus more likely to disturb local residents . |
| 28 | One of the reasons why the complex inter-market relations of the keiretsu are entered into is to organize those related and ancillary actions which would be internally subject to imperative co-ordination in more typical Western enterprises . |
| 29 | He argued that ‘ It would be entirely contrary to longstanding conventions in these matters to publish this sort of information . ’ |
| 30 | Four centuries earlier Socrates at Athens observed that a really righteous person would be so unacceptable to human society that he would be subjected to every humiliation and crucified . |