Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Provocative dress and casual promiscuity ( which are by no means the same thing ) may be abhorrent to juries in the southern states of America or to judges in this country .
2 This could be used to advantage in the LFA to show how nature ( and landscape ) conservation considerations can be incorporated on an upland farm .
3 Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp .
4 the SSR applies to the package and whether it would be understandable to users of the package .
5 the SSR applies to the package and whether it would be understandable to users of the package .
6 Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment .
7 Some of the increase must be due to migration as the maximum increase biologically possible in the time would be a doubling of the population .
8 Inconsistencies in the results of previous studies may be due to variations in the level of symptom recall , patient complaint , or consultation with medical practitioners and type of investigation performed on the various study populations .
9 Some research in this area seems to indicate that this may be due to perception of the father as the more powerful figure ( according to the classic structure of our society ) , with the result of greater ambiguity in seeing the mother as a desirable model for identification .
10 This improvement may be due to vasodilation of the ventilated zones of the lung inducing a ‘ pulmonary steal ’ of blood away from hypoxic vasoconstricted zones with low ventilation/µperfusion ratio .
11 Alternatively , the discrepancies might be due to characteristics of the tasks used to assess the different types of linguistic ability .
12 The reason for this is not known but is thought to be due to infection by the virus itself .
13 Additional sub-bands in the control ( 0 ) lane , may be due to polymorphism in the C57Bl/6-SJL background of the Long 12 transgenic .
14 Loss of energy , a growing fatigue and physical deterioration may be due to breakdown of the body 's own RNA and DNA , encouraged by high level stress .
15 The number of objectives should be small and they should be acceptable to managers of the business , realistic in terms of resources and timing , firm , measurable and ranked so that any conflicts in implementation may be resolved .
16 Unisys will also make note of the fact that its anticipated PCI-based multiprocessing Unix Server Design Center , due in the fourth quarter , will house Pentiums and later P6s and that the high-end U6000/75 and U6000/85 that it buys OEM from Sequent Computer Systems Inc will be field-upgradable to Pentium in the fourth quarter .
17 The duration of tests at any one condition depends on the condition and again must be subject to variation in the light of findings as the test progresses .
18 Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value .
19 Completion of the secession process would be subject to ratification by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies .
20 the significance of this is that the organisation will be subject to supervision by the local equivalent of the Department of Social Security and in return will receive financial help from the Romanian government towards the running costs of the village .
21 Your liability to tax and that of Midland Life in respect of the Guaranteed Capital Bond may be subject to change in the future .
22 The second difference from the development charge was that though the levy would normally be paid to the seller , if ‘ when the land comes to be developed , it still has some development value on which levy has not been taken in previous sales , that residual value will be subject to levy at the time of development ’ .
23 These privileges will now be subject to negotiation with the new tenant , so it will not be possible to include Barrington Court gardens in next year 's Handbook .
24 This is something which will be subject to negotiation with the landlord and an appropriate amendment can be made to the guarantor 's covenants or a proviso added .
25 It also laid down that Belau 's laws and any communications or relations with other countries , organizations or US agencies should be subject to approval by the US Department of the Interior .
26 But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller .
27 The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) .
28 Many leases deal with rent review dates by stating that the initial rent will be subject to review on the day of and thereafter in every [ fifth ] anniversary of that date during the term .
29 The Project Manager shall not unreasonably withhold or delay the issue of such authority , and any delay exceeding six weeks from the date of request , or any refusal of authority , shall be subject to review by the Project Committee .
30 This aspect of the agreement would be subject to review in the light of experience .
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