Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association is most grateful to the AOC Air Cadets and the Director of the Girls Venture Corps for permitting their respective Corps to provide this much appreaciated help . |
| 2 | The Association is most grateful to the Rococo Group for their work in producing an excellent book and to all those who contributed to it and supported its sales . |
| 3 | The experiment is also relevant to the possibility of mimicking shaded parts of a canopy by using materials of different colours . |
| 4 | Yet , the myth that Britain has historically been a stable , peaceful and law-abiding nation , and that violence is somehow foreign to the national character , shows little sign of waning . |
| 5 | Emotion is far closer to the surface when the film is set in Ireland . |
| 6 | it is still far from obvious that these will prove particularly suitable for any significant level of care provision … receiving assistance from the other without any acceptable means of reciprocation is quite contrary to the way most friendships are routinely ordered . |
| 7 | The end result is curiously close to the situation which might be expected in a much more left-wing administration and with a high degree of efficiency and accountability . |
| 8 | Quate says that the latest result is so close to the theoretical maximum that his team is now going to concentrate on making the SAM easier to use , rather than pushing ahead with improving the resolution still further . |
| 9 | When an adjective A appears to extend , by qualification , something which is a semantic nullity : ( 70 ) the overall result is obviously equivalent to the property of the adjective alone . |
| 10 | Doing so reveals that total revenue is very close to the total of the direct costs . |
| 11 | ‘ The richness of this programme is now available to the kindred library communities of Europe , ’ says Phyllis Bova Spies , OCLC 's vice-president , marketing . |
| 12 | The oceans and their biota play a central role in the carbon and nutrient cycles ; global ocean circulation is also critical to the global carbon budget . |
| 13 | Sealing after that date does not invalidate the deed ; the presence of a seal is merely superfluous to the requirements for execution . |
| 14 | The Germanic mind is highly amenable to the belief in correspondences between the Universe and Man — between microcosm and macrocosm . |
| 15 | The Karma of the Eastern mind is so similar to the interdependent forces that scientists such as Schrodinger claim are both the stuff of matter and the stuff of thought , that Yogis might rightfully claim that karma does exist because Western science has proved it . |
| 16 | Difficult decisions will need to be made to ensure that commissioned research is sufficiently responsive to the needs of purchasing authorities but at the same time of sufficient scientific rigour to attract good quality academic researchers . |
| 17 | The second factor shows that at the highest speeds the pull.out torque is inversely proportional to the supply frequency and that , as before , a large total phase resistance improves the high speed performance . |
| 18 | The practical application of the study is directly revelant to the containment of the AIDS epidemic . |
| 19 | The document ranked in order of importance the factors it wished to take into account in a new procedure : its knowledge of the institution ‘ as a whole ’ , the quality and experience of the staff , and the papers submitted for the proposed course ( the last justified by the fact that ‘ the discipline involved in preparing and documenting a proposal for the approval or re-approval of a course of study is extremely valuable to the College submitting it ’ ) . |
| 20 | Certainly , the significant properties as they relate to these needs are : cotton wool is more specific to the purpose ( than cloths ) ; it has a " medicinal " property . |
| 21 | That of the second piece is very similar to the smaller coin , a denarius struck at Rome , and indicates that it too was minted at Rome and then transported to Syria . |
| 22 | Where the NFI is very important to the multinational , it may be in a position to exert total control . |
| 23 | However , the Normal College is geographically adjacent to the University College of North Wales , Bangor , which offers similar courses of teacher training and , in some respects , competes with it for students . |
| 24 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 25 | The centripetal force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the centre . |
| 26 | Grant suggests a tourniquet , but it is hard to do as the worst cut is so close to the armpit . |
| 27 | The size of a quantum of light is inversely proportional to the wavelength of the light : the longer the wavelength , the smaller the quantum and the lower the energy of the light . |
| 28 | If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever . |
| 29 | Some mares will actually stand and paw at a paddock fence because they want to get to a stallion that is a couple of paddocks away — consequently they are likely to cut a leg or rip off a shoe if the bottom wire of the fence is too close to the ground . |
| 30 | The ACT offset is always subject to the same ‘ basic rate ’ restriction as the current year offset . |