Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In societies where there is a strong emphasis on certain goals , but where the means for obtaining them are unavailable to most citizens , the result is a situation of anomie ; a situation , in other words , where the rules and standards governing behaviour have lost their influence and force and are liable to be ignored , and where shared norms or rules no longer determine and direct behaviour . |
| 2 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
| 3 | Although , to the casual observer , the terraces may seem unremarkable slabs of tiered concrete , certain areas within them are sacrosanct to the fans who habitually occupy them . |
| 4 | Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically . |
| 5 | It is possible to adjust the data for the high proportion of part-time workers , by assuming that two of them are equivalent to one full-time worker . |
| 6 | Despite the entitlements spelled out in the supplementary benefit regulations , many of them are subject to discretion . |
| 7 | Thirty per cent of them are unfit to be used for education . |
| 8 | At the same time many among them are sympathetic to the Greens , whom their second vote gives them the opportunity to support . |
| 9 | Attempts to rescue and re-evaluate them are apt to be less rewarding than making a fresh start . |
| 10 | Some of them are near to tears . |
| 11 | This , coupled with the fact that they are also relatively low paid , means that many of them are unattractive to many of the unemployed . |
| 12 | Much of them are unreclaimed to this day , as in Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey . |
| 13 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 14 | Not to imitate it , of course , but to gauge whether any of them are likely to be interested in the kind of work you write . |
| 15 | With most major life events , it is likely to be very difficult both to identify people who have recently experienced an event and find out which of them are likely to be susceptible to psychiatric disorder as a consequence . |
| 16 | It is not known exactly where the birds end up , although some of them are likely to be eaten as game by African farmers . |
| 17 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
| 18 | is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which would if it were generally known to them be likely to materially affect the price of those securities . |
| 19 | how much prior formal review activity had they been accustomed to and how threatened had they felt ; |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 22 | High Wycombe and Eccles could be earlier than the latter , as they are datable to before c. 175 A.D. , whereas it could be of the third century . |
| 23 | In this art they are skilful to perfection … |
| 24 | They are upper-working to lower-middle class . |
| 25 | This is because they are close to the most frequently attacked scoring area . |
| 26 | • They are close to those regions of the brain which are involved in controlling sleep and alertness and exchange large amounts of information with these areas . |
| 27 | Thus when someone hears of the death of someone they are close to the reaction is , ‘ But it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 28 | A spokesman for North West Thames health authority said its hospitals in Hillingdon and Ealing were particularly badly affected , probably because they are close to Heathrow . |
| 29 | They are popular since they are close to the large population of London . |
| 30 | Are my shoulders hunched so that they are close to my ears ? |