Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said : ‘ The words of the song are sufficiently clear to a large number of the audience . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Agonists are substances which are so similar to a specific neurotransmitter they can occupy that neurotransmitter 's receptor perfectly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is a rather complex issue , but clearly there are elements of language , notably deictics , which are not accessible to a purely truth-conditional semantics . |
| 10 | A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange . |
| 11 | Much research into early Anglo-Saxon England is accompanied by a high degree of innocence , with time-honoured methods being applied despite their failure to deepen understanding of man 's past ; techniques applied to other periods tend to be excluded as though they are not relevant to an historic period . |
| 12 | In short , such propositions are not susceptible to a kind of analysis that might be applied , for example , to universal propositions which have no existential import . |
| 13 | Similar and perennial manifestations of urban crisis at the empirical level are not attributable to a consistently repeated set of causal processes that would justify a conventionally theorised problematic of the inner city . |
| 14 | It is clear from the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 that in appropriate circumstances a company carrying on business in Hong Kong can earn profits which do not arise in or derive from the colony , notwithstanding the fact that those profits are not attributable to an independent overseas branch . |
| 15 | There is a plausible consistency about a well-developed derivational argument ( for examples see pp. 96–9 ) that can not be gainsaid except by a more inclusive one , for most such theses are not open to a direct test . |
| 16 | The standards of competence , on which the qualifications are based , are nationally accepted and are not peculiar to an individual examining body . |
| 17 | you are not entitled to a redundancy payment ; and |
| 18 | For Steve , 38 , is locked in a bitter battle with town hall housing bosses , who claim he and Heidi are not entitled to a council home . |
| 19 | If you have never paid anything but reduced rate contributions , you are not entitled to a basic pension in your own right but instead must rely on your husband 's contributions for the married couple 's pension . |
| 20 | If you are not entitled to a State pension in your own right , you will receive the dependant 's rate of benefit , i.e. about 60 per cent of the full rate ( or less if your husband is not entitled to a full pension ) . |
| 21 | Infants under 2 are not entitled to a separate aircraft seat . |
| 22 | It is also wide open to fraud , because many people who are not entitled to a discount may try to claim one from their local authority . |
| 23 | Beneficiaries will continue to receive all payments with a tax credit at 35%. 27 Under current law , trustees of non-resident discretionary trusts are not entitled to a tax credit on a dividend but are taxed on the amount of the dividend received . |
| 24 | Older people with disabilities are not entitled to an invalidity benefit in addition to their retirement pension ; they are either retired or they are incapacitated , not both . |
| 25 | Infants under 2 are not entitled to an aircraft seat or baggage allowance . |
| 26 | As explained above , such students can usually complete the LLB ordinary programme within two years but , as they are not entitled to an SOED or LEA grant for this period , they must ensure that they have sufficient financial resources to cover the cost of their studies . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |