Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am wholly opposed to a transfer of competence to the European Community on matters of asylum and immigration . |
| 2 | It said : ‘ The words of the song are sufficiently clear to a large number of the audience . ’ |
| 3 | The series by Berg shown in Example 122 was obviously designed to give a lyrical melodic sweep to the melody in the second movement of his Lyric Suite for string quartet : It will be noted that Berg 's series contains three distinct tonal groups : minor chords on D and F , and four notes from G to D within the tonal zone of G. However , tonal factors are less essential to a good melodic series than variety of intervals and memorable interval relationships . |
| 4 | For example , tendencies for the legitimacy of public decisions to be eroded can be partly offset by ‘ shifting decision-making sites towards state units that are less susceptible to a loss of popular support , such as the bureaucracy , independent agencies , planning committees and social and economic councils ’ ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 71 ) . |
| 5 | Yet it 's arguable that the Germanic qualities that are prevalent in Wand 's conception are entirely appropriate to a composition that is so closely modelled on Bach 's Brandenburg Concertos . |
| 6 | Agonists are substances which are so similar to a specific neurotransmitter they can occupy that neurotransmitter 's receptor perfectly . |
| 7 | The variations in papal power and support are so crucial to an understanding of Barbarossa 's reign that the summary of papal allegiances included is worthy of study and is useful in following the complex developments . |
| 8 | I am a member of the largest section of this union , that 's the public services section , yet we are only entitled to a hundred and fifty delegates when we have two hundred and twenty thousand members nationally . |
| 9 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 10 | A Legal Adviser should not have been so close to an operation . |
| 11 | According to a DCDA telephone survey four places in Stockton are said to be very rarely vacant and 21 on North Tyneside , due to be ready from April , are already subject to a long waiting list . |
| 12 | Tree belts are usually regarded as ineffective barriers to noise because they are superficially similar to a layer of porous material — they are full of holes through which sound is transmitted very efficiently . |
| 13 | You 're also entitled to a lump sum for convalescence following stays of 21 days or more , plus further lump sums for certain permanent injuries . |
| 14 | Soviet leaders may have been more amenable to a plan for negotiations on Afghanistan developed in France , which did not incorporate the neutralisation element of the EEC scheme . |
| 15 | Second , if we accept that such adjectives , unlike predicate qualifiers , are genuinely equivalent to a modified clause in conjunction with the noun phrase which they follow , then it is entirely predictable that this construction will demand , as the preceding main verb , one which customarily supports a predication expressed in an explicit subordinate clause ; this will not , however , be demanded of the verb preceding a predicate qualifier . |
| 16 | Contingency factors Industrial market conditions are usually subject to a variety of contingencies , such as the development of buyer power , large buyers seeking small customers , the placing of conditions on specification and terms of supply , etc . |
| 17 | Those that are open to him are usually devoted to a purpose , not appropriated to a person : ladies congregate in the morning-room or mistress 's boudoir ; men in the odd room , billiard-room , or library . |
| 18 | We might assume that perceptual experiences of some kind are directly accessible to an observer , but observation statements certainly are not . |
| 19 | It seems likely that the two ‘ fingers ’ at the tip of the trunk are more useful to a species that lives on savanna and finds much of its food by grazing . |
| 20 | The survey also considers that accounting for signing-on fees is non-standard and patchy : ‘ Our view is that signing-on fees are more akin to an emolument of a player rather than a transfer cost . |
| 21 | Those who strongly doubt whether the cost-benefit exercise can be adequately performed are more inclined to a rules based or structural approach . |
| 22 | These results are in line with the knowledge that not everyone will respond to the same remedy , as some individuals are more sensitive to a remedy than others for whom it is not indicated . |
| 23 | It only means that certain sets of economic processes are more referrent to a local area than others . |
| 24 | On a simpler level , we know that it is unwise to turn our back when we are still close to a strange horse , stallion , or foal , because occasionally it will boot us once we take our eyes off it ! |
| 25 | Where products are still subject to a national organisation of the market , and the conditions under which the goods are marketed leads to distortion of the terms of competition under which similar goods are marketed in other member states , the Commission may impose compensatory charges upon exports of the product from the member state of origin . |
| 26 | It is unlikely that employees ( who are not shadow directors ) owe such a high level of duty to the company , though they are still subject to a lower duty of good faith and of confidentiality . |
| 27 | Although these games are only part of the phoney war the results are still important to a country 's prestige and confidence and Brazil would love to add England to their victims when they visit Wembley at the end of March . |
| 28 | Another practical consideration is the cost of art materials , and AOI members are automatically entitled to a ten per cent discount at one of their nationwide discount stores on production of their membership card . |
| 29 | But does the one cause the other , or are both due to an unknown third factor ? |
| 30 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |