Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] susceptible to " in BNC.

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1 All these moves are aimed at beating the stress which can weaken new stock and make them more susceptible to the other little problems of a new tank .
2 Moreover , the gold market 's lengthy depression has made it particularly susceptible to a bull raid .
3 The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them .
4 The small size of the formulations compared to red blood cells means they could penetrate solid tumours , making them more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiotherapy , and they could reach inaccessible parts of the heart during surgery .
5 In turn , this makes them differentially susceptible to pathogens and herbivores .
6 Brooks Brothers and IBM are both unique businesses , and unfortunately this makes them less susceptible to any advice based on more general cases .
7 This makes them more susceptible to the effects of Waaagh energy .
8 Gothic architecture was the most pliant of styles , which makes it particularly susceptible to the whims of an architect .
9 The slow time course and voltage-dependence of the NMDA receptor-mediated conductance makes it particularly susceptible to the hyperpolarizing influence of synaptic inhibition ; this susceptibility , together with the frequency-dependent depression of inhibition itself , largely accounts for the frequency-dependence of the induction of LTP .
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