Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] [adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put forward the idea that " answers " are like hypotheses in science which have to be tested and tried out and replaced by better ones if necessary , but the testing has to be appropriate to the subject-matter . |
| 2 | In which case , if all the other factors have been adequately controlled , any difference in output has to be attributable to the independent variable since it is the only difference between the two groups . |
| 3 | The waves are transverse , which means that the direction of oscillation has to be perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave . |
| 4 | Stiffening has to be resin-bonded to the material and even the smallest bolted item has to be located specifically on to wooden cores set and bonded into the FRC material . |
| 5 | Well I think people think that a certain amount of time and attention has to be devoted to the Party 's constitution , and there are two things that arose out of the conference in Brighton . |
| 6 | There is a degree of autonomy within each of the four countries , and although they may unite in the same objectives ( such as improvements in educational and professional standards ) , each has to be responsive to the nature and demands of its country of origin . |
| 7 | The businessman has to be sensitive to the needs of the customer or to the demands of the shareholders . |
| 8 | The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business . |
| 9 | Binding of Grb2-Sos to activated receptors seems to increase the affinity of Grb2-Sos interaction , but guanine nucleotide exchange of Sos1 itself looks to be indifferent to the binding state of its chaperone adaptor protein . |
| 10 | I also want to establish the degree to which he wants to be true to the facts , such as they are . |
| 11 | Tendring District Council wants to be responsive to the needs of residents and to work in partnership with them . |
| 12 | ‘ Finance needs to be appropriate to the needs of a business . |
| 13 | Such a grammar needs to be appropriate to the audience that is to use it , its content needs to be appropriate to the culture of the people whose language is to be learnt , and it needs to progress smoothly from one topic to another . |
| 14 | Such a grammar needs to be appropriate to the audience that is to use it , its content needs to be appropriate to the culture of the people whose language is to be learnt , and it needs to progress smoothly from one topic to another . |
| 15 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 16 | One needs to be sensitive to the pressures on those with whom one is negotiating . |
| 17 | Obviously , a publisher must bargain hard , and may have special cause to do so if the property in question has a strong and valuable branding , but , if ever a deal is to be made , the publisher needs to be sensitive to the real commercial worth of his material in the broader context of multimedia development . |
| 18 | Any information system needs to be sensitive to the present and future environment . |
| 19 | In order to be able to bind in this way the sequence of nucleotides in the synthetic piece of DNA or RNA needs to be complementary to the viral sequence . |
| 20 | Political success was due to him because of an exceptional intelligence and independence of mind which resolutely refuses to be subservient to the political mandarins of his party . |
| 21 | Though variations attributable to local circumstances are frequent , the number of candidates tends to be equal to the number of seats being defended plus one . |
| 22 | But ‘ politics ’ tends to be unrelated to the structure of colonial interests . |
| 23 | Because homoeopathy tends to be unfamiliar to the majority of people , they ask a lot of questions about it . |
| 24 | ‘ The 1964 Company intends to be well to the fore in providing solutions which encourage the broadest possible support for this most exciting project . ’ |
| 25 | The reader is constantly reminded of the two main assumptions which Petrey takes to be central to the theory : that language depends on social conventions rather than on any individual 's intentions , and that language is used to do things rather than to represent things . |
| 26 | The Bar Services Committee and its Information Technology Sub-Committee aims to be responsive to the needs of the profession , and members of the Bar who have suggestions for its future work are encouraged to write to the Secretary with particular proposals . |
| 27 | Some of that evidence , it might be said in parenthesis , appears to be adverse to the appellants . |
| 28 | This appears to be subject to an exception where the licence was granted for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose . |
| 29 | This structure extends over 0.3° ( 45pc ) but is part of an even more extensive 1° ( 140pc ) -shaped lobe that appears to be perpendicular to the plane and is reminiscent of the prominences and flares that protrude from the surface of the Sun ( Fig. 6 a ) . |
| 30 | As a result a policy has been arrived at that appears to be acceptable to the majority . |