Example sentences of "be compatible " in BNC.

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1 Selling houses to the poor may not be compatible with minimising the losses to taxpayers , which requires selling assets at the best price available .
2 We have to acknowledge that the new CAP will need to be compatible with a GATT agreement .
3 McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’
4 This may show that unequal supply of arms can be compatible with narrow ( though clearly not with comprehensive ) neutrality .
5 Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world .
6 It is pointed out that fluorescent lighting in clinical areas should be of a recommended type having colour rendering properties with which the decorative finishes in such areas must also be compatible .
7 The question is which form will be compatible with the general curriculum aims set out in the last chapter .
8 The tackle should be compatible with the size of fish you hope to catch and the type of water you are trying to pull them from .
9 We now have three criteria for the selection of methods and resources : that they should be appropriate for the objectives and the students to be taught ; that they should be practicable in the context of the teaching session ; and that they should be compatible with the personal resources of the teacher .
10 The new system will be compatible with existing equipment , because the new recorders also record and replay conventional soundtracks .
11 The manufacturers recognised that the camcorders would not catch on unless they adopted a common format allowing video enthusiasts to record and play back tapes on different models of machine , The standard the companies agreed is flexible in that it leaves room for technical developments before the camcorders go on sale , but is tight enough to ensure that all camcorders will eventually be compatible .
12 Kenneth Baker has decreed that all new cable systems must be compatible , so that a system laid in one part of the country will interface with the systems laid in other parts .
13 Baker has also said that every system must be compatible , through its head end , with the trunk networks laid by British Telecom and its private sector competitor , Mercury .
14 But call charges will be 20 per cent higher and present analogue handsets wo n't be compatible .
15 Classical literature tells us that through the centuries love was deemed to be compatible with a good marriage and in the Middle Ages canon law , by basing the validity of marriage on free consent , upheld love as a precursor of the union .
16 The Regulation provides that a market share of 25% or less is presumed to be compatible with the Common Market .
17 As of November 1991 , the Commission had found only one merger that it considered would not be compatible with the Common Market , which resulted in the merger being prohibited , namely , the proposed acquisition of De Havilland by ATR , a joint venture between Aerospatiale ( France ) and Alenia and Selenia ( Italy ) .
18 Under this principle , the Regulation gives the Commission sole competence to make decisions on mergers within the scope of the Regulation , whether or not the merger is adjudged to be compatible with the Common Market .
19 Arrangements such as joint market research , and the joint execution of research work up to the stage of industrial application , were stated to be compatible with Article 85(1) , provided that participating companies did not restrict their freedom of action .
20 All claim to be compatible with their traditional relations .
21 This fascinating document , completed in 1941 , after its aged author had once again perambulated the African continent , shows the extent to which accommodation to change and the continuation of control were considered to be compatible goals of policy .
22 Yet so many hobbyists seem oblivious of the fact that different fish come from different types of water , and that they may thus not be compatible with each other or with the local tap water .
23 It remains to be seen who will end up being the dominant supplier , but it would seem that the sheer volume of Novell and DOS/Windows users will dictate that future PC Lan systems will have to be compatible with them .
24 CoAct is compatible with Windows and will be compatible with Windows NT .
25 Columbia Tristar 's range of titles , however , will be compatible with all of the hardware .
26 Instead , he believes , they rely on advice from teachers about whether or not an applicant would be compatible .
27 All claim to be compatible with their traditional relations .
28 It would be compatible with the fish in your tank .
29 This raises the question , discussed in the final section , as to whether there may be other respects in which the laws of war might actually be compatible with deterrence in some form .
30 However , it is not suggested , pace Fuller , that the internal morality of law is inherent in the most efficient methods of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules , although there is more strength than has been generally granted in the view that government can only be compatible with the dignity of man if Fuller 's eight requirements for making law are satisfied ( Nicholson , 1973–4 ) .
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