Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 2 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 3 | Simply by putting relatively isolated community groups together Highlander is able to convey a sense of purpose to these groups which springs from the confidence gained by the realisation that their problems are not confined to themselves , nor in most cases caused by any deficiency or fault of their own , but are rather due to outside forces of oppression which are also being used against other people in other communities . |
| 4 | These radar and optical data are rather similar to corresponding data for the Moon . |
| 5 | The relationship between teachers and pupils is in many ways similar to the relationship between other professionals and their clients , but it is suggested here that in an ideal sense ( and in many cases practically too ) it does have special characteristics which are fundamentally opposed to traditional ideas of professionalism . |
| 6 | Neither are effectively accountable to democratic bodies . |
| 7 | The patent may , for instance , have been licensed on terms which are commercially unattractive to potential sub-licensees with superior production techniques or who enjoy established access to trans-national sales outlets . |
| 8 | We are acutely sensitive to sedimentary layering , perhaps because of our origins in prehistory ? |
| 9 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 10 | The terminology used in discussing literary texts has been left till last because it is the one which has traditionally been most familiar to English teachers . |
| 11 | The slowest-evolving molecules , like histones , turn out to be the ones that have been most subject to natural selection . |
| 12 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 13 | Crompton and Jones claim that employers use the grade structure to encourage loyalty and dedication from employees , but in reality many of the lower level management and administrative jobs are little different to clerical work . |
| 14 | The £1.5million show by the CEGB also showed that Mark 1 coaches are remarkably resilient to high-speed impacts . |
| 15 | Priority in the IGBP is intended to be given to those areas which deal with key interactions and significant changes on the time-scales of decades to centuries , that most affect the biosphere , that are most susceptible to human perturbations and those that will most likely lead to a practical , predictive capability for global change . |
| 16 | Most of these homilies and others of this genre are most relevant to conservation planners and are discussed indirectly elsewhere in this book . |
| 17 | innovators — the first 2.5% of the purchasers of the new product , those who are most open to new ideas ; |
| 18 | We have carried out surveys to determine what aspects of the environment in this country are most attractive to inward investors . |
| 19 | These high-pitched sounds are unlikely to be heard by passing fish , however , because although a few species , such as minnows , can hear as high as 8000 hertz , the majority are most sensitive to low frequencies and hear little above 500 hertz . |
| 20 | It is intended to establish both the level of such Joint Venture activity and , through interviews , the circumstances and form which are most advantageous to improved UK industrial performance . |
| 21 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 22 | The high pepsinogen C concentrations in chronic renal failure are obviously due to impaired renal function . |
| 23 | The actual data are obviously open to continuous analysis . |
| 24 | Husbands who feel insecure about their masculinity , or wives about their femininity , are especially vulnerable to extra-marital sex . |
| 25 | In addition , the economies of Holland and the Scandinavian countries are especially sensitive to international trade influences , which may also have encouraged a broad approach to wage determination . |
| 26 | Where psychology does produce theories , they are highly specific to particular debates . |
| 27 | ( 1986 ) , the studies are primarily concerned with fieldwork practice , a number of findings emerge which are highly relevant to residential services for children and young people . |
| 28 | Second , the eggs are highly resistant to climatic extremes , and can survive for years on the ground . |
| 29 | They are highly vulnerable to external control and , more seriously for the producing areas , to substitution by similar but cheaper industrial copies . |
| 30 | Squamous oesophageal cells are highly sensitive to refluxed gastric acid and intrusive inflammatory cells : cell loss and necrosis are the earliest histological findings . |