Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 2 | Pensions were peculiar to clerks : £4 a year paid out of the parsonage of Wendover to layman Richard Byrch was described as an annuity . |
| 3 | A device peculiar to companies is the ‘ floating charge ’ . |
| 4 | This effect is peculiar to regions of alternating AT since previous studies have shown that cleavage of isolated ApT sites in natural DNAs is poor [ 8-10 ] and we have shown that ApT sites are not cut within blocks of ( AAT ) n . |
| 5 | The air hung with an antiseptic aroma peculiar to hospitals , and as she passed elderly sick people Lucy suddenly felt very young and healthy . |
| 6 | It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality . |
| 7 | This conception , peculiar to individuals of low stature such as idiots , is , by the Materialists , elevated to the status of a ‘ system ’ . ’ |
| 8 | This includes personal " tics " , ways of moving one 's head , habits such as nail-biting , which are peculiar to individuals and not generalisable to the whole group . |
| 9 | Such an omission was not peculiar to this particular school , I realise , nor is it peculiar to schools of its particular type . |
| 10 | Peculiar to Children , was not to teach bad Latin , harsh French , as if the children were ‘ a parcel of Parrots or Magpies ’ , but ‘ to teach them the Government of themselves , their Passions and Appetites ’ . |
| 11 | 5 includes some detail on test methods which are peculiar to polymers and which have been specially developed for them . |
| 12 | A great many of the physical features of polymer composites are shared by all composite materials and we shall devote the largest part of this chapter to the topic of the mechanical properties of composites in general before particularizing on the features peculiar to polymers . |
| 13 | Open-bridging lending is more risky to lenders than closed bridging . |
| 14 | His primary objection to the lists was that they were patronising to teachers . |
| 15 | This is patronising to men and idolises women . |
| 16 | The findings for one family may be generalisable to others , but where the circumstances of each family are different , linguistic behaviour may be different too . |
| 17 | Findings on one particular group are generalisable to individuals of other groups ; therefore , the findings on males are indicative of people in general . |
| 18 | Findings on one particular group are generalisable to individuals of other groups ; therefore , the findings on Euro-American middle-class women are indicative of women in general ; and |
| 19 | The mind that had conjured up those designs had to be brilliant — annoying , devious , prone to flights of fancy — but brilliant all the same . |
| 20 | This is especially important if your skin is prone to breakouts in the T-zone . |
| 21 | They were also mroe prone to feelings of incomplete evacuation ( 27% v 12% , p<0.025 ) . |
| 22 | When this happens , you may be prone to chilblains and other circulatory problems . |
| 23 | He was , however , prone to gaffes , and doubts were repeatedly raised about how much substance lay behind the impressive campaign style . |
| 24 | but on closer analysis they are also prone to gaps and inconsistencies . |
| 25 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Children of working-class parents are more prone to accidents than other children for a variety of reasons : inadequate housing conditions ; tendency to play in the street because of lack of space at home ; less parental supervision ; and so on . |
| 28 | And front runners in a thing of this sort are unfortunately prone to accidents . ’ |
| 29 | He is very prone to accidents . |
| 30 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |