Example sentences of "are [adj] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For such a task crude approaches to semantic processing are preferable to the detailed analyses found in understanding systems since they are computationally tractable , robust and are not restricted to a small language domain . |
| 2 | He suggests that gradual movements in share prices caused by insider dealing are preferable to the erratic jumps in prices brought about by enforced disclosure . |
| 3 | Destructiveness and self-doubt are preferable to the enfeebled body politic and the parasitic Church . |
| 4 | It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion . |
| 5 | A second problem is that utterances like ( 101 ) Harry can only speak this loud are token-reflexive to the physical properties of the utterance itself , so that not only do the enormous technical problems of dealing with token-reflexives in a logical manner have to be solved , but all the physical properties of an utterance will also have to be available as indices ( requiring , again , an indefinite number of indices ) . |
| 6 | The inverted repeats of IS1151 are homologous to the corresponding sequences of the IS231 and IS4 insertion elements but diverge from those of IS186 and of IS421 . |
| 7 | Indeed , it will be interesting to determine whether atk is involved in any human neoplastic diseases that are specific to the B-cell lineage . |
| 8 | Racism becomes defined in terms of features which are specific to the black ( or Afro-Caribbean ) experience , for example , or to the peculiarities of English history , so that anti-semitism , or the specific articulations of racism which have developed in , say , the Irish or Scottish contexts , or in other European countries , are treated as ‘ special cases ’ , because their inclusion would ‘ deconstruct ’ the ideal type . |
| 9 | The development of economy-wide agreements for both Scandinavia and the Netherlands reflects , however , not only those influences which are specific to the various countries themselves but also more general factors . |
| 10 | The colours produced by different atomic sized defects are specific to the particular defect . |
| 11 | However , the critical questions are specific to the particular ad , and they are the ones that really matter . |
| 12 | One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) . |
| 13 | Without such controls it is not possible to know with certainty whether any changes observed in the product are the results of incompatibility with , or inadequacy of , the package , or are due to the inherent instability of the product . |
| 14 | These picture faults are due to the technical compromises which are built into video and television systems . |
| 15 | Is it not clear that the welcome improved prospects for an effective United Nations are due to the Soviet Union 's abandonment in the late 1980s of the aim of intimidating western Europe into submission and expanding its power generally ? |
| 16 | He posits that some of the changing trends in baseball violence are due to the increased commercialisation of the sport . |
| 17 | to get rid of the artificial distinctions which the historical development of the law had drawn between land and movable property — leaving only those distinctions which are due to the natural qualities of these two forms of property ; |
| 18 | The oscillations of C are due to the alternating reinforcement and cancellation between unc and unc I think you can see that [ 4 ] is the quantitative version of the statement that to get C the electron must go through both slits . |
| 19 | ‘ They are due to the unpredictable nature and power of the bounce of these castles , which is part of their fun . |
| 20 | Our thanks are due to the original cast for the creation of these offstage characters . |
| 21 | High tides on the opposite side are due to the centrifugal force of the Earth 's rotation . |
| 22 | We are grateful to the English Working Group for the thought it has given to assessment issues . |
| 23 | We are grateful to the concerned Dogs Today reader who informed us of the lobbying activities of this organisation . |
| 24 | But we are not told what features of the French peasantry are to be held responsible for Bonapartism , nor what features of Bonapartism are attributable to the French peasantry . |
| 25 | The ideas that are antagonistic to the global capitalist project can be reduced to one central counter-hegemonic idea , the rejection of the culture-ideology of consumerism itself . |
| 26 | Actually it is one of Prokofiev 's most intimate works , and Hardy and Devos are alive to the wistful reflectiveness of the first movement , while the scherzo and finale have a lovely conversational interplay . |
| 27 | Some pavements , such as that from Kingscote ( section 3.4 ) or the mosaic from Chedworth ( Goodburn 1979 , 26 ) are datable to the early fourth century , possibly before 325 . |
| 28 | If you are used to the low rectangular shape of most best sanders , the bizarre profile of the BD75E take some getting used to . |
| 29 | ‘ Be your age ’ is not advice to look dowdy , dull and unattractive , but a directive to discover the good looks and beauty that are proper to the new stage of life . |
| 30 | We are acceptable to the Scottish court , being friends of all and allies to none . |