Example sentences of "can be [adj] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formic acid can be helpful to pregnant women . |
| 2 | Faith can be impervious to mere facts . |
| 3 | However , the Younger Committee argued that such a topic as privacy , which can be subject to rapid changes in social convention , was probably best not regulated on the basis of the slow build-up of case law , which would always tend to reflect the values of an earlier period rather than of contemporary society . |
| 4 | Holiday demand is highly sensitive to changes in underlying economic conditions ( it is relatively income-elastic for instance ) which means it can be subject to rapid changes as the cyclical pattern of economic activity develops . |
| 5 | However , compulsory education in Britain is essentially provided at a local level and the number of pupils at a particular school can be subject to rapid fluctuations as a result of factors such as changing economic circumstances or new housing developments . |
| 6 | However , genetic changes occur in captive groups which can be counter-productive to conservation aims . |
| 7 | The Report states that the ‘ limited ’ modification to the law that it proposed ‘ should not be interpreted as an indication that the law can be indifferent to other forms of homosexual behaviour , or as a general licence to adult homosexuals to behave as they please ’ . |
| 8 | There is a sense in which the existence of nationalism , or more accurately , of old-fashioned nation-states on the periphery , can be convenient to hegemonic power-blocs . |
| 9 | But some people have to wait much longer for operations in some places than in others and the system can be insensitive to individual needs . |