Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [be] [adj] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus farmers may perceive benefits in bodies such as the Milk Marketing Board through gains in selling power , although other aspects of the Board 's operations may be undesirable to them . |
| 2 | They claimed broadcast programmes should be available to everybody ( ‘ geographic universality ’ ) , should cater for all interests and tastes , and should make particular provision for minorities ( especially the disadvantaged ) . |
| 3 | Our methods should be appropriate to what we are looking for , and we should be clear what our motive is . |
| 4 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 5 | Quite correctly , they reckoned that ministers and central committee secretaries might be expendable to their Boss , but coal-mines were something he could not afford to lose . |
| 6 | Counsel for the debtor was conscious of the problem and uneasy that the absence of reasons might be prejudicial to her client 's case . |
| 7 | The countries may be familiar to you but we will ensure you 'll see rather more of them . |
| 8 | Ignoring these rhythmicities may be perilous , and some of the symptoms of jet lag , shiftwork , ageing , insomnia , and affective disorders may be due to their temporal disorganisation . |
| 9 | ‘ The chief librarian decides which external courses , seminars and visits would be beneficial to which staff ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Parents can be terrible to their children , ’ Richard said , and touched her hand lightly . |
| 11 | Each party 's entitlement of seats should be proportionate to its share of the total constituency votes received by candidates of all parties , and it would be met by the award ( if necessary ) of a number of additional seats so calculated as to " redress the distorted results in the constituencies " . |
| 12 | To juxtapose such sequences in natural conversational contexts , participants must be sensitive to what to the outsider may appear as quite subtle perceptual cues ( Gumperz ( 1982 : 85 ) . |
| 13 | To juxtapose such sequences in natural conversational contexts , participants must be sensitive to what to the outsider may appear as quite subtle perceptual cues . " |
| 14 | If the answer is no , does the same apply to other people in your own school using the materials in a year or so when all the participants might be unknown to them ? |
| 15 | The use of visual aids can be helpful to your talk but they are an aid and should not substitute for what you intend to say . |
| 16 | While the consonant sounds may be familiar to you , these may occur in unfamiliar positions or unfamiliar combinations , and you will need to practise in order to master them . |
| 17 | For others the wearing of nightclothes may be contrary to their normal practice . |
| 18 | The notion of casually mixing fine art and housewares may be offensive to them . |
| 19 | Shares will soon be offered in the Llangollen Railway and details will be available to our members in due course . |
| 20 | This makes it highly unlikely that any further operations would be unknown to us . |
| 21 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 22 | ‘ Aye , well , folks that come to Wickrithe for their holidays should be used to it , ’ Gran said . |
| 23 | Equally to , I consider that significant peripheral development of the villages would be harmful to their character as well . |
| 24 | ‘ All living creatures will be relevant to our forthcoming discussion , sir . |
| 25 | It is possible to buy videocassettes in any of these three formats , but if you intend to hire or borrow cassettes then you should check which formats will be available to you . |
| 26 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 27 | Er the second initiative was to form industry groups , er textiles , retail , er automotive erm chemicals and plastics , none of those industry groups will be surprising to you since those are all the predominant industry groups in the region but again forming groups , three , four , five people again across practice areas to get to know about that particular industry group so that they can focus on er er companies that are operating in that group er put on seminars er and have small workshops , they would attract those sort of people , those sort of businesses in and in that way penetrate the er companies . |
| 28 | Bear in mind that a number of legal avenues may be open to you if you are dismissed and wrongly treated . |
| 29 | Third , the justices were strongly of the opinion that to separate the children would be harmful to them . |
| 30 | The importance of the child ( which is his own creation ) is significant in the essence of hopefulness that is communicated in lines such as : ‘ Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee ’ . |