Example sentences of "to [be] vulnerable to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 2 | To be vulnerable to pain and love at one and the same time is to be close to the ground of our very being . |
| 3 | More generally in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Europe , children , livestock , milk and crops were believed to be vulnerable to the witchcraft of jealous neighbours . |
| 4 | This means that if an individual is embedded in such a network , s/he is more liable than one whose network is relatively looseknit to be vulnerable to pressure exerted by everyday social contacts . |
| 5 | On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states . |
| 6 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 7 | I knew from my family history I was likely to be vulnerable to cancer and luckily it was diagnosed and treated in time . |