Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For AMS , the upper age limit is determined by other factors such as machine stability and the degree of modern contamination introduced in the processing of very small samples ; the values tend to be similar to those for conventional radiocarbon laboratories . |
| 2 | With few notable exceptions , legal department tend to be small to medium in size and it is not uncommon to find that solicitors work along . |
| 3 | The Index Kewensis lists more than 250 species of dodder and while some of these are possibly synonyms of the same species collected from different localities , the dodder appear to be native to all the large temperate and tropical land masses of the world . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a lot of common ground — the same causes for companies and organisations encountering difficulties , but of course the solutions have to be tailor-made to a particular industry or company culture. , A sound organisation structure helps to overcome many operational problems , in Cuckney 's view . |
| 5 | Third parties need to be alert to the possibility of change and to the actual practices of the body . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , third parties need to be alert to the dynamism of an organisation and realise it might have generated its own practices and activities , which need not necessarily be encompassed by the constitutive treaty . |
| 7 | Focusing on such issues also served to provide yet more material for those who argued that schools need to be subject to much stricter government control . |
| 8 | Lebanese parliamentary sessions have to be open to the public . |
| 9 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 10 | In fact , our ‘ middle-class ’ witches appear to be similar to the Canaanites ( see p. 56 ) , whom God roundly condemned . |
| 11 | I would therefore think it 's appropriate to be in this sort of format er so that if any other issues other than questions of in migration appear to be relevant to this situation , then it can be taken on the move . |
| 12 | Although first language acquisition is strictly related to the development of social identity , Watts ' conclusions that a certain set of perceptions is characteristic of Swiss-German readers ( p. 37 ) and that it " may be traced back to the kind of socialization into literacy " ( p. 39 ) are debatable mainly because the presented responses seem to be applicable to various categories of readers . |
| 13 | If parents continue to be resistant to discussing their difficulties , this should not be pursued . |
| 14 | Spain claim to be entitled to a seeding at England 's expense because they finished seventh in the Mexico World Cup finals in 1986 , one place ahead of England . |
| 15 | On the face of it , two lines of defence seem to be open to him . |
| 16 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 17 | Ministers as a professional group tend to be averse to data-gathering because they are more people focused than organisation orientated . |
| 18 | Feminist psychological theories ' inadequacies seem to be due to their close but largely unexamined relationship with this concept . |
| 19 | Barium studies seem to be insensitive to microscopic involvement and may detect only more severe cases . |
| 20 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 21 | Writers have to be relevant to what is taking place , whenever people are fighting for their self-determination . |
| 22 | The results probably show that all subjects an relatively unfamiliar with a serial recall task involving signs and that deaf people tend to be sensitive to the language base of speech coding though they do not have a significant facilitation in overt rehearsal . |
| 23 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 24 | Strategies for overcoming resistance to change in other people have to be appropriate to the type of resistance encountered . |
| 25 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 26 | In commercial computer applications , he believes sound will be particularly important in collaborative tasks , where people need to be alert to what colleagues are doing , without having it distractingly thrust upon their attention . |
| 27 | To use it effectively , we need to be able to establish common ground and other people need to be open to direction . |
| 28 | Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same . |
| 29 | This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it . |
| 30 | Teachers need to be alive to cultural differences which may particularly affect bilingual pupils ' handling of literature . |