Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.

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31 The regional affairs commissioner , Bruce Millan , also announced intentions to tighten up on the EC 's additionality principle — the rule that EC spending must be additional to planned national government spending .
32 Whereas biological control must be central to organic farming systems , the major potential application appears to be as a component of integrated farming systems which use limited amounts of chemical pesticides .
33 Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors .
34 Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors .
35 In addition , the differences we see between the rhythm measured normally and under constant routine conditions must be due to external causes ( rhythms in our life-style and environment ) .
36 Councils must be accountable to local people
37 Assignments must be relevant to current industry practices and should wherever appropriate relate to the individual students ' work places ; this applies particularly to the technical areas of food , beverage and accommodation operations/management .
38 We must be grateful to past landowners who planted in the knowledge that they would not see the results of their endeavours , but that successive generations would .
39 Does the Secretary of State accept that if local government is to be local , it is essential that we do not repeat the mistakes of the 1973-74 reorganisation and that any reorganisation must be acceptable to local people ?
40 One of Wyatt 's ‘ devices ’ are the writings by which he is known , and they too must be open to seasonal change as is fitting the conditions of survival .
41 Under the 1988 Act the following services must be open to competitive tender if the council wishes to permit its own service departments to participate :
42 Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this .
43 The true citizen must be ‘ able to understand the interests of the community , must be able to subordinate his own will to the general will , must feel his responsibility to the community and be prepared to serve it by voting , working , or ( if need be ) fighting ’ .
44 Structural features of perception , he suggests , might be accessible to objective description even though qualitative aspects are not .
45 A multiplicity of jurisdictions , dependent in part on where one lived , meant that a man might be subject to different courts for different reasons .
46 The first question is whether a disposition sub modo in favour of a public or religious purpose might be subject to special protection , and might therefore be enforced directly .
47 Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) .
48 The aim throughout the year will be to cover all aspects of accompaniment ; Piano in October , Percussion in January , Taped Music in March and , finally in June a Music Workshop where it is hoped qualified teachers will bring along tapes and records that they have used in their classes and which might be helpful to other teachers .
49 Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon .
50 The booklet describes services which might be available to Afro-Caribbean carers , and includes quotations from interviews and examples of experiences of carers .
51 A telephone poll in Moscow , for instance , found that 42 per cent of respondents thought the results of the summit were ‘ very good ’ , and that a further 44 per cent thought they were ‘ good ’ ; at the same time only 37 per cent thought the treaty would strengthen the security of the USSR , and 8 per cent thought it might be detrimental to Soviet interests .
52 It seems that a similar test might be applicable to international legal incapacity ; where a prior treaty is well-known and public , a third party can be expected to be aware of any limitations upon the capacity of a treaty member to enter into a treaty with itself .
53 This methodology might be applicable to large-scale seroepidemiological studies of pathogens found at low prevalence within populations .
54 Some of the earliest known fossil vascular plants , those of the Rhynie Chert of the Devonian 370m years ago , show damage , which might be attributable to biting arthropods .
55 Such increases in productivity might be due to new investment in existing industries , to speed-up and other kinds of changes on the shop-floor , or to a change in balance between low and high productivity sectors .
56 I noticed that Aunt Louise could thread her needle without too much trouble and even write a few letters , but I had heard that sight is often impaired by poor health , and prided myself that this improvement might be due to good food and peace of mind .
57 Low overwinter fine root mortality , relative to growing season mortality , might be due to low maintenance respiration rates under cold soil temperatures , but it is unclear why roots produced in the 1989 growing season should continue to die at a slower rate during the 1990 growing season .
58 Maccoby and Jacklin ( 1974 ) refuse to consider the psychoanalytically-influenced hypothesis that women 's low scores might be due to strong but repressed , rather than weak , aggression , because the first of these is not susceptible to traditional psychological testing .
59 But she was starting to feel that making music underground might not be too unacceptable a way of living , it might be preferable to certain compromises , when an unpleasant thing happened .
60 And what do we know about childhood determinants of adult disorder which might be amenable to preventive intervention ?
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