Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both formal ( e.g. the mass media and educational systems ) and informal institutions are central to this stage , creating a sense of regional membership for the inhabitants : |
| 2 | It might have been thought that the arrival of so many neutral countries would render any Common Security policy impossible , but the Community institutions are alert to this ‘ danger ’ , and have stated that they will be rigorous in their application of the acquis to new members . |
| 3 | Most of these institutions are devoted to showing contemporary art and most of the exhibitions fit the growing category of ‘ educational ’ shows presented in these sorts of art museums . |
| 4 | According to our preferred model only two-thirds of the vacancies are acceptable to teenage men . |
| 5 | Your own notes are personal to you and ordered by you so that it is relatively easy to find the material you want when you want it . |
| 6 | Your notes are personal to you . |
| 7 | The notes are pertinent to the exhibition , but left me slightly disquieted : the style of writing is , appropriately , neither fact not fiction , but this allows her to make shifts through sleights of words which in more academic circumstances would beg fuller exposition . |
| 8 | This can be a critically important action as the human memory is notoriously selective , and loose-leaf and logbook notes are prone to be separated from the project plan . |
| 9 | The top notes are apt to be ‘ screamy ’ and too shrill for anything but rather grotesque effects . |
| 10 | There is no denying that a person 's beliefs about the likely consequences of his acts are relevant to his normative situation . |
| 11 | I accept that the Rent Acts are irrelevant to the problem of determining the legal effect of the rights granted by the agreement . |
| 12 | The third quarter 1991 bad debts are likely to be the worst ever , according to Europe 's largest trade credit insurance broker , The Credit Insurance Association Ltd . |
| 13 | This plan usually falls down because the Wolf Riders are vulnerable to shooting and because small units of Goblins are very fragile . |
| 14 | The two innermost satellites are close to the outer edge of a system of tiny particles that constitute a ring around Jupiter . |
| 15 | Additional more powerful satellites are due to be launched in 1993 and 1996 . |
| 16 | SDOs are subject to the same parliamentary procedure as GDOs . |
| 17 | The discussions are close to a conclusion and I understand that my hon. Friend will shortly be writing to the industry to clear up some of the remaining points , which will isolate the relatively few issues to be settled . |
| 18 | We should then ask whether any of these reasons are relevant to the case with which we are concerned , and classify the activity in question in such a way as to achieve the desired level and type of control . |
| 19 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 20 | When objects are subject to gravity or are otherwise attached to a deck , the silhouette is more significant than the ground line . |
| 21 | This shows that 70% of prisoners are loyal to Fatah , the main bit of the Palestine Liberation Organisation , whereas only 10–12% say they belong to Hamas . |
| 22 | The 1992 accounts are due to be published shortly , and the company has agreed to ‘ provide fuller information about a number of accounting policies ’ , including the background and reasons for a transfer to reserves and the non-depreciation of properties described as leasehold and lease rentals . |
| 23 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 24 | And those accounts are important to me . ’ |
| 25 | Yet another way in which not having a bank account makes people more likely to fall into the non-chooser group , the automatic users of one or other type of credit , is that people without bank accounts are likely to be paid weekly , in cash . |
| 26 | Good financial accounts are vital to the success of any enterprise . |
| 27 | The SJ lamps are similar to incandescents as regards colour appearance and colour rendering . |
| 28 | Member states are obliged to police the Directive and the safety of products put on the market . |
| 29 | While such states are central to literary studies , it is difficult to describe them precisely or effectively ; and for this reason , although they are of great interest , they are also inevitably weak points in your argumentation . |
| 30 | The view that the attitudes of Arab states are irrelevant to future security arrangements unless they coincide with Western prejudice — has been reinforced by the destruction of the Arab League early last August . |