Example sentences of "is [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be emphasised , however , that each person 's recovery is idiosyncratic to him or her . |
| 2 | The adoption of a particular voice setting often acts as an individuating marker , when its use is idiosyncratic to a particular speaker . |
| 3 | It is humiliating to be living in debt and squalor in the midst of affluence and bewildering to feel helpless in the face of laws , regulations and procedures that one can not understand . |
| 4 | It is humiliating to be left and gratifying when the leaver shows signs of repentance and regret . |
| 5 | As an example , we may consider observations made in a channel of which the dimensions gradually change with distance downstream from 12·7 × 76 mm to 12·7 × 228 mm ; the consequent drop in speed reduces the Reynolds number ( based on the smaller dimension ) from a value at which the flow is turbulent to one at which reverse transition occurs . |
| 6 | PYY slows gastric emptying and mouth to caecum transit in humans , and there is considerable circumstantial evidence to suggest that enteroglucagon is trophic to the small intestinal musoca . |
| 7 | Transforming growth factor α is trophic to pancreatic cancer in vivo |
| 8 | Circulating gastrin is trophic to parietal vells , but its paracrine effects are unknown . |
| 9 | ‘ That porosity is perceptible to me ! |
| 10 | A blurred shape is perceptible to those who look hard enough , but the process is more amorphous than the stereotype might suggest . |
| 11 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 12 | The moderate Conservative , Sir Ian Gilmour , favours electoral reform precisely because he is alive to the fact that : " after electoral reform , no Labour party led by Mr Wedgwood Benn , say , would ever win a majority in the country . |
| 13 | We are not in a position to identify potential benefits and pitfalls , but it does seem as if CCW is alive to the way in which all the schemes should integrate effectively . |
| 14 | One of the problems in the public sector is that no one keeps a balance sheet , so there is no proper record of maintenance costs and of depreciating assets — whereas the business man or woman who manages a private care home is alive to the importance of maintenance , and of protecting the value of that asset . |
| 15 | For example , Hillel declares : ‘ What is hateful to yourself , do not do to your neighbour . ’ |
| 16 | One tradition is the covenant one and is antagonistic to a straightforward nationalist sentiment . |
| 17 | This returns us to Arendt 's observation that secrecy is a prerequisite of totalitarianism , for those involved in the executive use of power know that to reveal is antagonistic to its maintenance . |
| 18 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 19 | If the side that did duty this week trots out in the Italian sunshine in June , it will have an average age of 29½ , which is ill-suited to the punishing conditions of a concentrated tournament in midsummer . |
| 20 | And the bird 's standard evasive tactic is ill-suited to the airport . |
| 21 | Second , if the model used is ill-suited to the data then the curve could be disastrously wrong , particularly when used for extrapolation . |
| 22 | It is understandable to be worried and scared if you think you might have been exposed to HIV . |
| 23 | The reluctance of translators to use it is understandable to some extent . |
| 24 | These are mutations of Lys22 ( to Glu , Ala or Arg ) , whose side chain in the crystal structure makes contact with the phosphate backbone of the DNA ; Lys23 ( to Glu , Ala or Arg ) , which is hydrogen-bonded to the guanine residue at operator positions 2 , 7 , 10 and 15 ( see Table 1 and ref. 1 for details of numbering system ) ; and Thr25 ( to Val , Gln or Asn ) , which is hydrogen-bonded to N7 of the adenines at positions 3 , 6 , 11 and 14 of the operator . |
| 25 | These are mutations of Lys22 ( to Glu , Ala or Arg ) , whose side chain in the crystal structure makes contact with the phosphate backbone of the DNA ; Lys23 ( to Glu , Ala or Arg ) , which is hydrogen-bonded to the guanine residue at operator positions 2 , 7 , 10 and 15 ( see Table 1 and ref. 1 for details of numbering system ) ; and Thr25 ( to Val , Gln or Asn ) , which is hydrogen-bonded to N7 of the adenines at positions 3 , 6 , 11 and 14 of the operator . |
| 26 | In addition , the Abu2NH of CsA is hydrogen-bonded to Asn102(CO) in our NMR structure and not to MeBmt1OH as previously reported , and appears to mimic the Ala2(NH)/Asn102(CO) hydrogen bond in the tetrapeptide/cyclophilin complex ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 27 | Titrations show that at pH 6.5 , His126 is uncharged and only the ( not ) NH ( 12.51 p.p.m. ) , which is hydrogen-bonded to Met100(CO) , is observed . |
| 28 | Often the volume of references and information produced by online services is considered to be too great and this ‘ sea of information ’ is confusing to the user . |
| 29 | As an actor Brando is a great politician , but because of that he is destructive to those he works with . |
| 30 | Mildew is destructive to cotton whereas nylon looks stained and smells a bit but the fabric remains intact . |