Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 2 | You would have had to be superhuman not to be a little corrupted by the power she had . |
| 3 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |
| 4 | As with junk , the offer appeared to be available even to pretty second-rate companies . |
| 5 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 6 | The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets . |
| 7 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 8 | Rent which continues to be payable either to the Policyholder or by the Policyholder while the Policyholder 's home is uninhabitable as a result of destruction or damage caused by an insured peril . |
| 9 | Each segment is designed to be small enough to be covered by the salesperson during one day 's work . |
| 10 | Space-fleet 's personal RIT devices were supposed to be unjammable up to a range of two kilometres , but it was obvious that Spinward had technology in the Arcadia system that outclassed Space-fleet 's latest equipment . |
| 11 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |
| 12 | The ridge walks are said to be second only to those of the Cuillin in Skye in terms of drama and scenery . |
| 13 | Much has been written about the technological challenge of North Sea oil , said to be second only to the American space programme in scale . |
| 14 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 15 | In private banking , net provisions jumped from £1.6 million to £4.8 million , said to be due principally to unpaid mortgages . |
| 16 | This variation seemed to be due both to the severity of the impairment and to personality factors ; it would therefore be simplistic and unwise to make generalisations based entirely on impairment . |
| 17 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 18 | The stimulatory activity was found to be stable up to 60°C for 10 minutes . |
| 19 | These schools , given a far from warm reception when first proposed , are to be funded in a new way , are to fall altogether outside Local Authority control , and as their name implies are to be devoted primarily to preparing their pupils for a career in industry . |
| 20 | His encyclical Mediator Dei , published on 20 December 1947 , was the first one in the history of such documents to be devoted exclusively to the liturgy . |
| 21 | You 're going to be happiest closer to home now , Cancer and you 'll need time to yourself at the beginning of June . |
| 22 | It is not enough for a business to be responsive only to its present environment . |
| 23 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 24 | The PCD secretariat then carries the investigation forward with the provision that , if the matter proves to be significant enough to be referred to the Investigation Committee , the ARC will be informed so that it can consider the case further . |
| 25 | She would have to be blind not to be aware of it . |
| 26 | Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands . |
| 27 | Swod paused , as though expecting everything to be clear now to the chief inspector . |
| 28 | It seems to me to be important enough to be worth tabling if that can be arranged . |
| 29 | I do n't insist what I 've done has to be important forever to the theatre . |
| 30 | These may take the form of problems which even if proved empirically to influence resource needs do so in such particular , local , and sometimes subtle ways that statistical models are unlikely to be sensitive enough to be helpful . |