Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical Education is due to report soon to the secretary of state for health on how staff in NHS teaching hospitals can be helped to teach better .
2 But , realistically , the book is likely to appeal more to the converted , who wish to know more about the sub-order Serpentes .
3 Thus , for example , it may make sense to have an integrated commuter rail service and inner-city subway , and to subsidize it to prevent people driving through congested streets ; but only a local government embracing both the suburbs and the inner city is likely to get close to the efficient policy .
4 If we now think about a crack proceeding inwards from the surface of a stressed material ( Figure 1 ) we should expect the area of material in which the strain is relaxed to correspond roughly to the two shaded triangles .
5 It is useful to refer again to the practice guides which the then ABAFA produced to the 1975 Children Act ( 1976 and 1977 ) ( and which were criticised by Tunstill ) .
6 As the wind increases above this level it is better to go directly to the No 3 to help the stability of the boat rather than changing to the No 2 .
7 ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring .
8 If you do not have enough of the right kinds of food , or if you have too many high-fat , high-sugar foods in the cupboard , it is difficult to keep strictly to a diet .
9 But it is necessary to refer also to the provisions dealing with the recoupment of losses and the disgorging of profits in order to enable the restitutionary provisions to be construed in the context of the Act as a whole .
10 For example , if the person is severely incapacitated and has difficulty in mobilising , it can be important to know whether , when at home , it is necessary to go upstairs to the toilet .
11 It is tempting to react sourly to a string of major infrastructural projects in south-east England though , in truth , they will also help Scotland 's connections , particularly with continental Europe .
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