Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of these patients who were refractory to H 2 antagonist treatment required treatment with omeprazole and one of them ( No 7 ) eventually needed a highly selective vagotomy . |
| 2 | Undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma ( UF9 ) cells are refractory to cAMP and become cAMP-responsive following differentiation to endoderm like cells . |
| 3 | Undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma ( UF9 ) cells are refractory to cAMP and become cAMP-responsive following retinoic acid-induced differentiation ( 34 , 35 , 36 ) . |
| 4 | On the other hand , providing a false diagnosis adds to patients ' disability , reinforces maladaptive behaviour , and ensures that what might have been a brief illness becomes refractory to treatment . |
| 5 | As affectivity is the most obscure side of man , there has been the constant temptation to resort to it , forgetting that what is refractory to explanation ipso facto unsuitable for use in explanation . |
| 6 | However , the challenge is there to be met and oncogene manipulation may provide the next real step forward in a disease which has proved largely refractory to radio- or chemotherapy , and in which prognosis has changed little over the past 40 years . |
| 7 | T n tracts are refractory to enzyme cleavage . |
| 8 | Other sites produced DNase I footprints and enhanced reaction with diethylpyrocarbonate but were refractory to cleavage . |
| 9 | It is said that , before he died , St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head , rather than suffer decapitation : ‘ For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves . ’ |
| 10 | This spate of exalted titles for Aethelbald , which finds no echo elsewhere in texts from centres other than Worcester , could well be a purely local phenomenon in the mid-730s , peculiar to Worcester , with authority . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Pensions were peculiar to clerks : £4 a year paid out of the parsonage of Wendover to layman Richard Byrch was described as an annuity . |
| 13 | In many ways this array of interest groups is not peculiar to Japan , and the usual debate exists about whether some groups rather than others have more access or influence . |
| 14 | What is perhaps peculiar to Japan is the way industrial conflict precedes negotiations and takes the form of ceremonial sabre rattling . |
| 15 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 16 | An alternative view might posit some quality peculiar to literature which would justify the independent existence of literary studies , but this would reduce the scope of the object of study to a considerable degree , and result in the repetitive sifting of works in search of the one magic ingredient . |
| 17 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 18 | However , there are certain qualities which are seen to be peculiar to physics and these are crucial to our understanding of the construction of physics as a discipline . |
| 19 | Their system of tenure was peculiar to Cornwall and parts of Devon ; it did not provide hereditary security but consisted of a seven-year lease at a negotiated rent with no automatic right of renewal . |
| 20 | This alchemical characteristic is peculiar to photography , where the mind and heart have potential to blend with the structure of the image , coding it above and beyond what is obvious at first glance . |
| 21 | This alchemical characteristic is peculiar to photography , where the mind and heart have potential to blend with the structure of the image , coding it above and beyond what is obvious at first glance . |
| 22 | The gap between stab hands and linesmen , peculiar to Edinburgh , was not the only division in the work-force with which the union had to contend . |
| 23 | The apprentice problem was by no means peculiar to Edinburgh , but it was one more source of cheap labour for Edinburgh employers , and further divided the workforce , this time by age . |
| 24 | A division of labour peculiar to Edinburgh bookwork is described in Templeton 's evidence to the Fair Wages Committee : I might explain that there is policy in giving the girls reprint work . |
| 25 | VAT rates of 5.5% and 18.6% on imported works of art , peculiar to France , are also dissuasive , as is the French droit de suite tax of 3% , which may one day be extended to the whole of Europe . |
| 26 | Sharp contrast between regions of movement and regions of quiescence is not peculiar to Spain : in Italy the problem of the static south , ill-united with the progressive north , was as distressing as the comparable tensions in Spain between the unmoving centre and the developing periphery . |
| 27 | Indeed , the cathedral monastery , like Canterbury or Durham , was something peculiar to England in the Middle Ages . |
| 28 | A quaint , old provision peculiar to Ireland , enabling a Member to resign , go bankrupt , and stand in the ensuing by-election has , sadly , disappeared ( see Hollinshead v Hazelton [ 1916 ] 1 AC 428 , 452–3 ) . |
| 29 | As for initiatory rites , while circumcision was peculiar to Judaism in the Roman world , baptism was widely practised . |
| 30 | This long-run shift to an older population is not peculiar to Britain . |