Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia in diabetics has been reported to be similar to the non-diabetic population , that is from 8 per cent to as high as 52 per cent ( Hayes , 1972 ) . |
| 2 | The teeth also were found to be similar to the condition described after 29 months weathering : for a sample of 31 teeth , 25.8 per cent were split ( Fig. 1.6A , B ) and 9.7 per cent were chipped ( Fig. 1.6E ) ; 34.8 per cent of the incisors were broken . |
| 3 | In fact , our ‘ middle-class ’ witches appear to be similar to the Canaanites ( see p. 56 ) , whom God roundly condemned . |
| 4 | The formula on offer by the company last night is said to be similar to the rejected package but with slightly better redundancy terms . |
| 5 | Wimpey refused to quantify the additional charge it has taken for its involvement in the Channel Tunnel project , but it is thought to be similar to the £8 million announced by its fellow Chunnel contractor , Balfour Beatty , recently . |
| 6 | At the same time similar surveys have been conducted in Ipswich and Cambridge , and although these results are not fully confirmed , their respective county councils state that their findings are likely to be similar to the findings from Essex . |
| 7 | The sub-sections below list some of the typical operations likely to be necessary to the production of each of the products listed in 3.6 above . |
| 8 | For example , a term prohibiting making a back-up copy in a pre-1993 agreement will not be made invalid by reason of the changes brought about by the regulations even if the making of a back-up copy is deemed to be necessary to the lawful use of the program . |
| 9 | However , a Midland Bank spokesman said the group expected the dividend flow from the investments acquired to be preferable to the dividend flow from its Argentinian loan portfolio . |
| 10 | In the first instance , there is a need to be alert to the potential for , and presence of , crime in conventional and ordinary settings . |
| 11 | For organisations like the Runnymede Trust , it is crucial to be alert to the various fronts upon which racism appears , and offer whatever support we can to those who want to challenge it . |
| 12 | To do this we need to be alert to the processes going on within society and the economy , what range of alternatives is available , who can and should take part in the decision-making process , and what the effects of the various possible outcomes might be . |
| 13 | With both , it is important to keep an open mind and to be alert to the various clues and pointers to meaning that appear as the communication unfolds . |
| 14 | Third parties need to be alert to the possibility of change and to the actual practices of the body . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , third parties need to be alert to the dynamism of an organisation and realise it might have generated its own practices and activities , which need not necessarily be encompassed by the constitutive treaty . |
| 16 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 17 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 18 | A successful application of the described in situ methylation-protection assay is illustrated in Figure 1 , where probing of the Jun-DNA interaction detected one strong and two weaker protection positions ( in the core and the borders of the AP-1-binding site , respectively ) whose methylation has been previously shown by interference analysis to be destructive to the same extent for complex formation ( 6 ) . |
| 19 | Lack of patience with drivers whose only ‘ crime ’ is to be strange to the area . |
| 20 | Pope John 's message to heads of state — broadcast on Vatican Radio on 25 October — made the front page of Pravda the next day under the banner headline : ‘ We beg all rulers not to be deaf to the cry of humanity ’ . |
| 21 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 22 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 23 | Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees . |
| 24 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 26 | But the poor had cause to be grateful to the railways too , in particular for their supplies of fresh fish . |
| 27 | JIM Boyden , another well remembered North-East MP , has particular cause to be grateful to the NHS . |
| 28 | The Essex team had reason to be grateful to the weather when a down-pour at the Southend Spring Festival ( 16 May ) brought crowds into the covered area just in time to watch them perform . |
| 29 | The context was one unlikely to be familiar to the pupils . |
| 30 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |