Example sentences of "be [adj] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results suggest , therefore , that tariffs are preferable to quotas if the market was initially more competitive than Cournot . |
| 2 | Screw-on glazing bars are preferable to snap-fits as they hold this flexible glazing sheet more securely in place |
| 3 | These allied to an apprehension of the uselessness of qualifications anyway — blackness being seen as the immovable obstacle to career progress — produce a situation in which black kids are receptive to alternatives , to different life plans . |
| 4 | Advances to customers are profitable to banks but highly illiquid . |
| 5 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |
| 6 | I ca n't stand people who are cruel to animals . ’ |
| 7 | The RSPCA says magistrates are too soft on people who are cruel to animals . |
| 8 | There are 3 indirection operators : The examples that follow assume that a DIM statement has been used to reserves an area of memory and store the address of the first byte of the memory in a variable called " mem " . |
| 9 | If he 's been used to lads ' nights out each week , and football practice on Sundays , you 're going to have to reach a compromise . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been used to fares running off without paying in the past , ’ said one . |
| 11 | Since Roberts 's book focuses on women , she necessarily highlights patterns of exchange which are specific to women , and it is quite possible that both duty and affection were ( and are ) more prominent in exchanges between women than when men are involved . |
| 12 | These granules ( 300–500 nm ) store many proteins , some of which are specific to platelets such as platelet factor 4 , β-thromboglobulin , low-affinity platelet factor 4 and platelet-derived growth factor . |
| 13 | The majority of deaths result from deliberate shooting or trapping , while others are due to poisons such as strychnine , laid for crows and foxes . |
| 14 | And his thinking is indeed knowingly premised on the assumption that in the complete absence of change in conditions there would be no changes in organization ; so that whatever different changes in organization have occurred in the many lines descending from some common stock are due to differences in the conditions in those lines . |
| 15 | The different interpretations are due to differences in the scope of almost with respect to certain of the semantic traits of kill : notice how the paraphrases match the interpretations simply by moving almost in the sentence so as to alter its scope . |
| 16 | They are due to differences in the data available for the preliminary analysis ( the abstract was written in December 1991 , when data collection and analysis were incomplete ) and to the limited space available in the abstract ( 200 words ) . |
| 17 | For example , a large part of exam nerves are due to students promoting fear in each other and then ‘ picking up ’ that atmosphere . |
| 18 | Within marriage , fluctuations in the proportions without children are due to changes in choice about childlessness , not changes in fecundity . |
| 19 | Some of these shifts in time perception are due to changes in metabolic rate produced by fever and drugs , but the mind always plays a part . |
| 20 | We conclude that the obtained variations in the base modification pattern in the different tRNA variants are due to changes in the normal 3D-structure of tRNA Asp caused by the introduced mutations . |
| 21 | This downward bias will be more severe the more that changes in actual income are due to changes in v t rather than changes in expected income ; in other words , the more inaccurate our measure of expected income is , the greater is the severity of the bias . |
| 22 | According to the Working Party on Pesticide Residues , the higher amounts are due to changes in farming practice which have led to more frequent spraying of crops . |
| 23 | In the standard Keynesian view of macroeconomics such a policy will soften the fluctuations in real output and other real variables to which any economy is prone and which are due to fluctuations in private-sector spending . |
| 24 | It is possible , but not established , that these variations are due to fluctuations in the mains voltage . |
| 25 | The shrimp industry , however , contends that the shortages in the supply of larvae during the past decade are due to fluctuations in population . |
| 26 | But when changes in births are due to shifts in timing , the TFR exaggerates current trends in relation to the final future outcome of family size . |
| 27 | Those that are due to demands ' being refused and bad temper can be ignored but others are best managed by helping the child cope with frustrating experiences . |
| 28 | Externalisation or blaming — admitting that there are problems but saying that the causes are due to pressures at work or unemployment or due to social , financial or other stresses or due to doctors or " pushers " or due to the inadequacy of the police , customs officials or the Government . |
| 29 | The differences are due to exaggerations and reductions of the different types of hair . |
| 30 | Right , now you you 've already made it clear to us that about half the increase in development costs are due to increases in the costs of the equipment . |