Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 2 | What makes them different to other chemicals containing chlorine is their molecular make-up . |
| 3 | In France , A. M. G. R. Portevin , working with de Dion-Bouton , noted in a report to the Carnegie Foundation ( 1909 ) the corrosion resistance of steels containing more than 10 per cent chromium and subsequently described thermal treatment ( patented May 1911 ) to make them amenable to standard milling processes . |
| 4 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
| 5 | So we see ideas about the nature of communication interpreted in a reductive way , assimilated into preconceived ways of thinking to make them amenable to conventional pedagogic treatment . |
| 6 | However , the best way of doing this is not simply to develop important new methods and techniques , but also to make them accessible to applied workers . |
| 7 | There is also a danger that the engineered crops will transfer the gene that makes them resistant to wild plants via pollen , which would force farmers to use ever stronger herbicides , with serious implications for the environment . |
| 8 | At that time the young ferrets are being handled regularly and this process of getting them accustomed to human touch and handling continues through every cleaning-out stage . |
| 9 | The F-Plan 's extra filling power can most help you by getting you right to slim-weight target . |
| 10 | That , says the I O D , makes them vulnerable to economic down turns . |
| 11 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 12 | However , we believe many Planning Committee members are fearful that voting to refuse will make them vulnerable to unpleasant accusations that they are uncaring of the needs of terminally ill children . |
| 13 | It is this constitutive role of religious belief that so often comes to mind when the words science and religion are juxtaposed ; for the explanatory pretensions of the world 's religions have made them vulnerable to scientific advance . |
| 14 | Until the seventeenth century the courts would declare Acts of Parliament void if they considered them contrary to natural law , repugnant to the law or impossible to be performed . |
| 15 | It is my practice however when coming across manuscripts bearing distinctive old surnames to offer them first to possible direct connections . |
| 16 | Are there universal cellular memory mechanisms found in all mammals , all vertebrates or even all animals , or are they specific to particular species ? |
| 17 | The loss of the grip of the family during the critical adolescent years releases the youth from the ‘ straightening ’ influences , thus making him amenable to other fields of force . |
| 18 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 19 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) . |
| 20 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 21 | Genetic screening , to determine if the worker 's chromosomes render him vulnerable to occupational illness , looms on the horizon . |
| 22 | It was n't congenital stupidity that had made him susceptible to human jurisdiction , it was anguish . |
| 23 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 24 | His fellow-curates found him liable to vast silences , during which he twisted a bit of cotton with the fingers of both hands . |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't put him next to other horses , but he can see them clearly , only a field away , and he does n't fret or bother at all . |
| 26 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 27 | Substantial losses have occurred of semi-natural vegetation and wildlife habitats , notably moorland and rough grassland , much of it attributable to agricultural intensification ( especially cultivation and reseeding ) . |
| 28 | Nor is it due to black people 's possession of special gifts or talents which equip them more satisfactorily for certain sporting events . |
| 29 | Recreational skiers tense up when they encounter fear , be it due to difficult snow conditions , moguls or gradient . |
| 30 | Nor was he averse to corporal punishments where the logic of his ‘ symbolic representation ’ thesis seemed to require it . |