Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is my last word on the subject , I 'm sorry it has to be so close to bathos , but that 's how I feel . |
| 2 | ‘ The Federal Reserve needs to be more attentive to the need to avoid tipping this economy into a recession , ’ he warns . |
| 3 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 4 | Similarly , in both spoken and written English given information tends to be grammatically subordinate to other information . |
| 5 | In order to succeed , he must rally traditional Democratic supporters such as blacks , Hispanics and union members ; and he must do something to attract votes from populist east Texas , which tends to be more sympathetic to a local boy , Ross Perot , who grew up in Texarkana . |
| 6 | Above this frequency , the attenuation ceases to be negligible and the phase shift ceases to be sufficiently proportional to frequency . |
| 7 | Similarly , the explosion in the population of sentenced prisoners , which was an ongoing phenomenon for most of the 1990s , appears to be largely attributable to the persistent practice of ‘ over-sentencing ’ — both in the sense of using custody unnecessarily for minor property offenders and others , and of imposing longer sentences across the board than is required for strictly reductivist purposes — for which responsibility rests mainly , but not exclusively , with the Crown Court . |
| 8 | This appears to be very close to the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur . |
| 9 | Although moods are likely to be important in driving , subjective risk as defined in the previous chapter appears to be more similar to concepts such as emotional stress or arousal as they are used in the memory literature . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand you are married to a man who , on the surface at least , appears to be more attentive to his mother 's needs than to yours , try not to become upset and regard her as a threat or a rival , and avoid jumping to the conclusion that your marriage is a failure and that you are unloved . |
| 11 | The use of the modular approach initially brings the very real advantage that it appears to be more acceptable to users and provides greater insight for the designer of the design problem . |
| 12 | It appears to be quite unresponsive to the caucuses of the two parties , be they Republican or Democratic . |
| 13 | Importantly , the tariff-equivalent quota appears to be relatively sensitive to the value of δ . |
| 14 | Though the Court of Appeal is also a court of supervision , it appears to be too busy to be able to devote as much time and thought as is needed to such cases . |
| 15 | Science , somehow , seems to be scarcely relevant to the most important issues in our life . |
| 16 | There is a lethal or semi-lethal dwarfing factor in the breed , sometimes called the bulldog-calf syndrome , the genetics of which have been closely studied and which seems to be slightly different to the dwarfing factor sometimes seen in other cattle breeds . |
| 17 | It seems to be particularly applicable to markets where the relaxation of statutory entry restrictions leave an incumbent firm with an especially predominant position . |
| 18 | Charm in a woman seems to be particularly important to men in the South , while intelligence is much less important to Northern men . |
| 19 | The chitinous external skeleton seems to be particularly responsive to the demands of evolution . |
| 20 | It seems to be particularly sensitive to the type of graphics card in use and 256 colour mode often slows it down a lot . |
| 21 | Of the models looked at , the Ullmann-Harris model seems to be most adaptable to the layout of Nottingham as it is . |
| 22 | The library , with its traditional image of a quiet and unthreatening place , seems to be potentially receptive to unusually-shy , withdrawn , anxious , autistic , and similarly-emotionally disturbed young people . |
| 23 | It really is n't surprising that we 're following their footsteps because the only way in the end to get anything done in this country is to protest about it because this government seems to be totally oblivious to rules of natural justice or decency . |
| 24 | Indeed the term ‘ Community Care ’ seems to be quite specific to English speaking countries and elsewhere the term ‘ home-based care ’ is commonly employed . |
| 25 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 26 | On conversions that I have seen the fan seems to be too close to the radiator . |
| 27 | But with cats it seems to be too common to be explained in this way . |
| 28 | In patients with IBS the gut seems to be more reactive to various stimuli when compared with controls . |
| 29 | In Harrods book department the penis of a Manhattan black photographed by raking light seems to be more offensive to the general public than are close-ups of Madonna 's private parts . |
| 30 | There are other ways people have tried to protect the minority , one is by saying that the , that you can generate a certain set of rights from within the democratic procedure in a different way , that is if democracies flourish people need certain liberties , people need to express their own opinions , people need to be able to do what erm assemble where they need to and so on but more common is the view that democracy should be limited by constitutional would present the minority and this is a view that Mill does n't really defend in representative government although it seems to be very close to his view and on liberty , that is we limit the spear that this government has control over so we ca n't , so in this view erm democracy is given a very limited role . |