Example sentences of "the [adj] [modal v] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing dogs for the deaf can be invaluable to people with a profound hearing loss . |
| 2 | Humanity shall remain content to cut off further hopes of increased life enjoyment by permitting the continued dominance within the human race of the evolutionary law that requires for its operation that ( a ) , all surplus life must perish and ( b ) , the strongest shall be entitled to all that physical dominance permits them to take , regardless of the source of what is taken , and the cost to others . |
| 3 | Humanity shall remain content to cut off further hopes of increased life enjoyment by permitting the continued dominance within the human race of the evolutionary law that requires for its operation that ( a ) all surplus life must perish , and ( b ) the strongest shall be entitled to all that physical dominance permits them to take , regardless of the source of what is taken , and the cost to others . |
| 4 | Some of the following may be repetitive to some extent , and the reader is asked to excuse this as the writer finds it difficult to avoid repeating some of his thoughts in a subject so fraught with difficulties of explanation , and covering such a wide field . |
| 5 | Capital instruments may have a combination of features and accordingly more than one section of the following may be relevant to a single capital instrument . |
| 6 | Pessimists may say that this will lead to more elderly people being burdened with the costs of deteriorating houses ; optimists , that a higher proportion of future cohorts of the elderly will be accustomed to capitalizing on their assets . |
| 7 | The latter would be subject to less extensive review than would tribunals and other administrative institutions . |
| 8 | Although the latter would be prejudicial to a Christian monotheism , the former would not . |
| 9 | The latter may be due to carelessness , or to a principle which has not been grasped . |
| 10 | The latter may be due to inability to shop or cook , for example because of limited mobility or language problems . |
| 11 | Moral density can not grow unless material density grows at the same time , and the latter can be used to measure the former . ’ |
| 12 | The levelling-off will be due to the coincidence of the smaller birth cohorts of the pre-war years entering old age whilst the larger war and post-war cohorts are of working age . |
| 13 | Most of the above will be familiar to you in some form . |
| 14 | The Constitution provided for a 200-member lower house and a 81-member upper house ; the former would be identical to the current Czech parliament , while the latter was likely to be filled by Czech members of the federal parliament . |
| 15 | The same would be true to a lesser extent if I allowed and helped someone to write my life . |
| 16 | In fact , the psychic will be sensitive to most things in the above ‘ dictionary ’ . |