Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 2 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 3 | It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions , for example the rack and thumbscrew , which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country , are abhorrent to any civilised society , but that they and other less awful , though not necessarily less potent , means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth . |
| 4 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 5 | However , quieter deadspots and louder ‘ wolfnotes ’ are inherent to all wooden instruments , and it 's usually not a problem to adapt to them . |
| 6 | Short 's paper demonstrates , on the one hand , the possibility , and indeed the necessity , of extending the scope of descriptive categories to a diverse range of text types , while on the other hand it stresses the need to refine our understanding of the conventions and expectations that are specific to each individual type of discourse . |
| 7 | We wished to demonstrate whether epitopes contained within the amino acid sequence 206–217 of A-gliadin are specific to coeliac toxic cereals . |
| 8 | It was agreed that thanks are due to all retiring Chaplains for their service , mutual help and fellowship . |
| 9 | In a stressful home environment , whether the difficulties are due to parental mental illness or family discord , it seems that a good relationship with one parent ( or both parents ) , characterised by a high level of warmth and the absence of severe criticism , is protective . |
| 10 | The heart muscle suffers direct damage and many heart attacks are due to this direct cause as well as to arterial disease causing raised blood pressure . |
| 11 | Furthermore , recognition of the significance of environmental factors upon the well-being of elderly people does not give us a magic wand ; many of these factors are attributable to wider structural phenomena over which we and the elderly people have relatively little control . |
| 12 | The sentiments among the majority of Northern lay presbyterians are biased towards those elements in the Westminster Confessional which are antagonistic to Roman catholic practice and belief : the evils of the papacy and priesthood and the suppression of Christian liberty , the evils of the mass and devotions to the saints , all of which combine to turn Christians to superstition and idolatry and away from almighty God and true salvation in Christ . |
| 13 | As will be seen in Chapter 7 , this itself could only have been due to current Roman catholic social teaching on mixed marriage . |
| 14 | Does he agree that much of our country 's undoubted export success has been due to competitive premium Export Credits Guarantee Department rates ? |
| 15 | The patients ' symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction may well have been due to benign prostatic hypertrophy and the coexistent prostatic cancer may have been an incidental finding . |
| 16 | This separation creates inevitable tensions between the team and the consultant , which are inimical to good multidisciplinary work . |
| 17 | A teacher working with a class she does not know needs to signal reality rather more strongly than when class and teacher are used to each other . |
| 18 | Basic tenets of Catholic social philosophy have contributed to the formation of a Latin American political tradition , the underlying assumptions of which are antipathetic to fundamental Marxist class analysis . |
| 19 | Like us , cats are responsive to four basic tastes — sour , bitter , salt and sweet . |
| 20 | That much must also have been clear to contemporary foreign observers . |
| 21 | Conventional quick-start transformer circuits and some electronic starters are unsuited to these new , narrow-diameter ( 26 m m ) tubes . |
| 22 | Young children in this environment are prone to recurrent febrile illnesses , known to inhibit gastric acid secretion , and theincidence of acute Helicobacter pylori infection in this particular community is approaching 50% in the first year of life . |
| 23 | Instead , extensive efforts are being made to eliminate the problem by screening breeding stock , such as Setters and Poodles , which are prone to this debilitating condition . |
| 24 | NVQs are different to any conventional qualifications however : |
| 25 | The Professor 's own American sign language would have been unintelligible to those present . |
| 26 | The sentencing powers of magistrates are subject to certain general statutory restrictions in addition to the maximum penalties prescribed for each individual offence . |
| 27 | For instance , all Britain 's civil nuclear installations are subject to Euratom ( the European Atomic Energy Community ) safeguards procedures ; all the civilian nuclear installations are subject to International Atomic Energy Authority safeguards , enshrined in a tripartite agreement between Britain , Euratom and the IAEA . |
| 28 | In Darlington applications have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks . |
| 29 | Letters have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks . |
| 30 | These are simply recognised by common law and convention and are subject to various legal and conventional limitations . |