Example sentences of "are [adv] prone " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fancied seeking out some Synodontis for the new tank , and they are rather prone to burning their scaleless skin by trying to hide under a standard heaterstat . |
| 2 | Our old chums , the Fuggle and the Golding , are remarkably prone to attack by pests and disease , which is why varieties such as Challenger and Target — more resistant to aphids and wilt but less subtle in aroma and flavour — have been developed . |
| 3 | It is the blue-eyed white cats that are most prone to deafness . |
| 4 | These will differ from generation to generation and from temperament to temperament , but it is wise to know the types of doubt to which we are most prone . |
| 5 | These fish are especially prone to ‘ conditioning ’ ; you can switch their minds onto a certain item of food and if you keep that food trickling through their swims over a long period they will continue feeding , with only short breaks , until that food runs out or some other disaster happens to move them . |
| 6 | While Moorat 's study shows that older patients are especially prone to accidents in a general hospital , Blake & Morfitt ( 1986 ) carried out a study in a residential home . |
| 7 | Fancy Goldfish like this black and red Oranda are especially prone to swimbladder problems |
| 8 | Ogons are especially prone to this foreshortening |
| 9 | But of all diseases they are especially prone to chest-disease , to pneumonia , phthisis , bronchitis , and asthma . |
| 10 | It is a cardinal error , and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone , to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions . |
| 11 | Older women are especially prone to ageist assumptions and comments . |
| 12 | Nor do we understand why some atherosclerotic plaques are especially prone to ulcerate or rupture , or even why some arteries , such as the internal mammary or brachial arteries , uncommonly develop atherosclerosis . |
| 13 | Experts say young travellers are especially prone to problems in far off places and in different cultures . |
| 14 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 15 | Warm goats are less prone to fainting , as are pregnant or ( oddly ) dehydrated ones . |
| 16 | These ‘ soft companies ’ are easy to start because they need little in the way of capital or staff , and they are less prone to failure than companies oriented toward ‘ hard ’ products . |
| 17 | Planted at an altitude of between 100 and 200 metres , the higher situated vines are less prone to the dangers of frost and provide well-structured , fruity wines . |
| 18 | For example , birds have higher maximum lifespans than mammals and are less prone to death in the wild . |
| 19 | We need to think that why new babies are so prone to cold injury and a lot of the reasons , can I take that down , are very obvious if you think about them cold injury is the same as hypothermia . |
| 20 | Such studies exemplify the kind of fetishism to which material culture studies are always prone , when people are superseded as the subject of investigation by objects , and become essentially labels for their movement or pattern . |
| 21 | The behaviour of some modern gliders during take-offs and landings is very different to most of the training gliders , and it is vital to understand why they are more prone to swinging . |
| 22 | Modern gliders are more prone to swinging than older aircraft and it is a little more difficult to keep the wings level , so do n't relax until the glider has come to rest . |
| 23 | Asthmatics are more prone to suffer attacks when any one of these pollutants hits the ‘ poor ’ mark , and some sensitive people may even be affected when the air quality is describes as ‘ good ’ . |
| 24 | Single older people are more prone to suffer from a lack of amenities and occupy unfit dwellings than larger elderly households . |
| 25 | Because of the close proximity of the vagina to the rectum , women are more prone to suffer the other important late complications of LGV , the so-called ano-rectal syndrome , in which the infective and inflammatory processes involve the lower bowel . |
| 26 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 27 | The Institute of Psychiatry at the Royal Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals in London reports that men who live alone are more prone to alcoholism or social phobias ( such as fear of meeting people ) . |
| 28 | Every believer is prone to doubt , but some are more prone to one kind and some to another . |
| 29 | Elite theorists agree with pluralists that political systems characterized by deep cultural cleavages , which reinforce rather than cut across one another , are more prone to regime instability ( see pp. 59 — 63 ) . |
| 30 | Always ask for ‘ pigmented ’ inks as dyes are more prone to fading . |