Example sentences of "to be [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , when the report was actually published in August 1985 , the Commission 's own figures proved to be remarkably similar to those reported from West Germany . |
| 2 | Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers . |
| 3 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 4 | Numerically c turned out to be remarkably close to ‘ the velocity of light in air , as determined by M. Fizeau ’ which was ‘ 70 843 leagues per second ’ . |
| 5 | On the other hand , Burton Raffel ( 1983 : xxii ) writes in his translator 's introduction , " The translator must turn his back on the original … in order to be ultimately loyal to it . |
| 6 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 7 | He seemed genuinely grateful for his aunt 's hospitality , and set himself out to be exceptionally charming to Doctor Bailey . |
| 8 | Standards may be relaxed if , say , the cost of controlling pollutant emissions in order to achieve the standards is deemed to be economically unacceptable to a nation . |
| 9 | This explanation understands ‘ realism ’ and early or proto-modernism not to be diametrically opposed to one another , but as two sides , form and content , of the same modernizing process in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 10 | Romance also seemed to be diametrically opposed to peace and relaxation , which was why she had come here . |
| 11 | ‘ We want our software to be widely available to anyone that wants it — a lot of people pick and choose the bits they want ’ . |
| 12 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 13 | Law and Gilbert ( 1986 ) have made a survey of saltmarsh in the Western Isles , and their community definitions appear to be closely similar to those of the NVC . |
| 14 | This world famous photo archive , which has grown to around 2.5 million images since Sir Robert Witt gave his collection of some 400,000 photos in 1944 to be freely available to any interested parties , is one of the most extensive in the world for paintings , sculpture and architecture . |
| 15 | To suggest , as do other countries in the European Community , and the Commission itself , that there could be maximum daily doses of individual tablets prescribed , is not incompatible with saying that the products will continue to be freely available to all those who wish to use them . |
| 16 | Science , somehow , seems to be scarcely relevant to the most important issues in our life . |
| 17 | The costs to the motorist are believed to be broadly similar to those for a car phone , with a sliding scale of charges based on the level and frequency of use . |
| 18 | ( 1983 ) , thought to be broadly applicable to the foreland and sheet S in western central southern England . |
| 19 | Subjects ’ estimates of risk appeared to be broadly sensitive to differences in the actual accident statistics at the range of junctions encountered . |
| 20 | But they seem to be curiously indifferent to timber in the shape of components . |
| 21 | The hypothesis that states pursue their national interest could be shown to be empirically superior to its rivals , thus grounding a Positive science of international relations . |
| 22 | The product sectors on which we have focused will , I believe , be proven to be increasingly beneficial to us as consumers look for fewer but better quality , better value products . |
| 23 | The first wave approach to NHS management was seen to be increasingly inappropriate to the needs of the service and society at large . |
| 24 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 25 | They imagine that they have believed in God because faith is rational — which it is — but they then expect every aspect of faith to be equally open to rational investigation — which it is n't . |
| 26 | Such animals are likely to be equally sensitive to the electromagnetic waves created by a storm . |
| 27 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 28 | This would seem to be most applicable to Quadrant 4 types of innovations , and may well be counterproductive in the other areas . |
| 29 | This chapter comes after the chapter on writing the essay because it is likely to be most useful to you when you come to re-read and correct what you have written . |
| 30 | In November 1978 , DATEC issued further proposals in which it affirmed its philosophy that colleges should have the maximum opportunity to develop courses which they consider to be most appropriate to educational , commercial and professional needs as they are able to identify and define them . |