Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self completed diaries are preferable to single questionnaires or clinic based consultation because accurate recall of symptoms may be affected by memory bias and single measures may be misleading . |
| 2 | Of course , even if insider trading had some tendency to make the market smoother the benefit from that smoothness ( and it is not entirely clear why smooth gradual movements are preferable to sudden jumps ) might not be worth its cost . |
| 3 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 4 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 5 | There is a policy supported view that mentally handicapped people should not be placed in institutions ; that community based alternatives should exist ; and that small living arrangements are preferable to large . |
| 6 | Even the most ardent critics of the closure programme agree that modern , small , and homely residential ‘ sanctuary ’ units are preferable to drafty wards in crumbling old hospitals where staff morale is often low . |
| 7 | Instead of one group of market participants who do not learn from experience and another ( entrepreneurial ) group who do , we can work with market participants who are alert to changing buying and selling possibilities . |
| 8 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 9 | The investigation aims to establish what sub-contracting patterns in what circumstances are conducive to good business performance , and draw conclusions about whether they are specific to an industry or a nation , or transferrable across sectoral or national boundaries . |
| 10 | These criteria do not imply that other longer term influences are not at work and we would have to accept that some of these influences are historical , in that they are inherent to probable ‘ weak ’ parenting skills from John 's earliest life . |
| 11 | OVER the past decade , experimental methods have been used to increasing effect to discover the empirical strengths and weaknesses of economic theories , and to supplement empirical evidence obtained using more conventional econometric methods . |
| 12 | Prices satisfying these costs are Pareto-superior to go-it-alone prices or prices for subgroups , so that it would seem people would be willing to pay them , yet in our example it turned out that they are not . |
| 13 | The work of the team is co-ordinated towards meeting agreed objectives with clear differentiation between , and respect for , those skills and roles which are specific to individual members as well as those which may be common or shared . |
| 14 | ( These rights , we might note , are specific to capitalist society . |
| 15 | These closely woven principles are specific to certain groups — for example , gender or class — and lead also to a sense of identity between those who share habitus . |
| 16 | It is also possible to take advantage of compounds , phrases and idioms which are specific to certain domains and/or contexts . |
| 17 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 18 | There are social phenomena that are specific to confined areas : that is why any survey of Soviet politics and society must refer to discrete geographical localities . |
| 19 | We wished to demonstrate whether epitopes contained within the amino acid sequence 206–217 of A-gliadin are specific to coeliac toxic cereals . |
| 20 | If we may define the purpose of pruning as stimulating , promoting , maintaining , directing and prolonging the vitality of the rose , it becomes evident that we can segregate a great many principles , dos and don'ts into those that are general and applicable to all roses , and those that are specific to particular species , types and varieties . |
| 21 | By establishing the practice of job rotation workers become generalists so that their skills and experience are specific to particular firms and therefore less transferable . |
| 22 | The issues can be grouped in three main categories : first , those which have a general significance for the future development of all present-day societies ; second , those which arise from the relations between societies ; and third , those which are specific to particular types of society . |
| 23 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 24 | Sooty mould is caused by aphids , while split fruits are due to irregular watering |
| 25 | Without being overcomplicated or analytical , many of our sensitivities are due to early life and subsequent experience . |
| 26 | Contrary to the Jenkins and Sherman argument a group of academic economists ( Stoneman et al. 1981 ) , in a study published by the OECD , claimed that ‘ up to now there is no firm evidence that the current high levels of unemployment are due to technical progress ’ and that ‘ if account is taken of the offsetting effects that can be predicted , there will be little change in overall demand [ for skills and jobs ] ’ . |
| 27 | — These are due to chemical substances that absorb some wavelengths of the incident light and reflect others . |
| 28 | Though this danger is now realised , it is possible that the current models are also incomplete and that some errors in the correspondence between the model and the observed data are due to insufficient sophistication in the model . |
| 29 | The question whether these old marine terraces are due to differential uplift of the land or worldwide lowerings of sea level , is a highly controversial one . |
| 30 | In countries where the infant mortality is low , a large proportion of residual infant deaths are due to congenital anomalies ( defined as ‘ structural-morphological , functional and/or biochemical-molecular defects present at birth ’ ) . |