Example sentences of "[be] amenable to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petroleum wastes may be amenable to activated carbon adsorption if they are relatively small ; bulkier molecules , such as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ) , are difficult to treat by adsorption due to size exclusion from the adsorbent 's micropores . |
| 2 | There are always a priori assumptions of what we call an ideological nature , which are not amenable to proof , but which may helpfully be amenable to explicit and prior communication . |
| 3 | More field trips were demanded ; in the new climate in which life was at last prepared to be amenable to Richard 's desires , it seemed natural that Murray should supervise these expeditions . |
| 4 | In some cases these may be amenable to the problem-solving approach described in Chapter 5 , once drying-out has been completed . |
| 5 | Where a chief police officer believed that a march would cause serious disorder which would not be amenable to control he could seek a ban through the local authority to the Home Secretary . |
| 6 | Although Mannheim suggested that the pure knowledge of some sciences and mathematics would not be amenable to study in this way , accounts of the social and structural features of even such ‘ pure ’ knowledge have since been completed ( Bloor 1976 ; Gandy 1973 ) . |
| 7 | These are all aspects of learning that have been shown to present difficulties to some visually handicapped children , but which may be amenable to remediation . |
| 8 | Benny Alexander , the PAC 's secretary-general , claimed that the government 's action was motivated by a desire to force his organisation out of the negotiations and so smooth the way for an agreement that would be amenable to the ‘ white settler regime ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , a body may be amenable to judicial review even if , to use a graphic phrase of Lord Donaldson MR , it ‘ operates without visible means of legal support ’ . |
| 10 | This example illustrates a general point , namely that the more heavily regulated by statute a government activity is , the more likely it is to be amenable to judicial review . |
| 11 | There is no reason why a contractual body performing public functions should not be amenable to these remedies . |
| 12 | But the biblical material may simply not be amenable to what they would say . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the exercise of such discretion would not in my opinion be amenable to judicial review on the basis set out in the decision of your Lordships ' House in Reg. v. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council , Ex parte Chetnik Developments Ltd. [ 1988 ] A.C. 858 . |
| 14 | If it were , our decision ought obviously to be amenable to appeal . |
| 15 | Apart from the correctness of the analogy drawn by Simon Brown J. in Wachmann 's case [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , and the suggestion that the visitors to the Inns of Court may be amenable to judicial review , there was no dispute about the correctness of any of these submissions . |
| 16 | If this was the source of the visitors ' continuing jurisdiction in disciplinary appeals , then it was accepted that they would be amenable to judicial review , their situation being in certain respects comparable to that of a visitor to a university or college who holds that position by virtue of his office , cp the Queen as visitor of the University of Hull : see the Page case [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 , 1279 . |
| 17 | ‘ I am informed that you will be amenable to cooperation . ’ |
| 18 | It is assumed that Dyfed County Council and the Countryside Council for Wales will be amenable to reaching a compromise . |
| 19 | For example , we expect the core skills included in all general SVQs to be amenable to an integrative approach . |
| 20 | In the diplomatic arena , the coalition made it clear throughout the campaign that it would not be amenable to peace initiatives so long as the Iraqi leadership remained unprepared to accede unconditionally to the requirements as laid down in the successive UN Security Council resolutions . |
| 21 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 22 | Those who feel that patience , trust and a capacity to put up with uncertainty are gifts rather than skills — and gifts which not all adults share — will doubt whether these personal dispositions can be amenable to training . |
| 23 | Such errors should be amenable to correction without the need to redigitize all or part of the map . |
| 24 | The varices , if they recur and re-bleed , may then be amenable to sclerotherapy . |
| 25 | Patients developing tolerance to adenosine-mediated protection because of recurrent anginal episodes may be amenable to preconditioning with either a muscarinic or an adrenergic agonist depending on the level in the signalling pathway at which tolerance occurs . |
| 26 | Many of the events do not appear to be amenable to prevention . |
| 27 | And what do we know about childhood determinants of adult disorder which might be amenable to preventive intervention ? |
| 28 | Some risk factors in childhood may be amenable to prevention . |
| 29 | We would be amenable to er friendly amendments , erm of er er we know you wondered what more instructive perhaps we do |
| 30 | For example , glycosylated proteins which are unsuitable for display on filamentous bacteriophage may be amenable to selection in a retroviral display system . |