Example sentences of "[is] [adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they knowOne hundred and fifty thousand people in Britain will die from smoking this year … that s equivalent to the entire population of Milton Keynes . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 've just joined us , ’ the commentator 's voice droned , ‘ there 's no score in this all important match but England can be admired for holding their own , down to ten men and against a Moroccan team that 's used to the sort of heat … ’ |
| 3 | and Mike 's used to the dog , she would n't bother . |
| 4 | The adoption of a particular voice setting often acts as an individuating marker , when its use is idiosyncratic to a particular speaker . |
| 5 | PYY slows gastric emptying and mouth to caecum transit in humans , and there is considerable circumstantial evidence to suggest that enteroglucagon is trophic to the small intestinal musoca . |
| 6 | The moderate Conservative , Sir Ian Gilmour , favours electoral reform precisely because he is alive to the fact that : " after electoral reform , no Labour party led by Mr Wedgwood Benn , say , would ever win a majority in the country . |
| 7 | We are not in a position to identify potential benefits and pitfalls , but it does seem as if CCW is alive to the way in which all the schemes should integrate effectively . |
| 8 | One of the problems in the public sector is that no one keeps a balance sheet , so there is no proper record of maintenance costs and of depreciating assets — whereas the business man or woman who manages a private care home is alive to the importance of maintenance , and of protecting the value of that asset . |
| 9 | The argument against the system of election by thirds of course the arguments against are roughly these one , an obvious argument , is that it is conf it , it 's confusing to the public the system of election by thirds is confusing . |
| 10 | One tradition is the covenant one and is antagonistic to a straightforward nationalist sentiment . |
| 11 | If the side that did duty this week trots out in the Italian sunshine in June , it will have an average age of 29½ , which is ill-suited to the punishing conditions of a concentrated tournament in midsummer . |
| 12 | And the bird 's standard evasive tactic is ill-suited to the airport . |
| 13 | Second , if the model used is ill-suited to the data then the curve could be disastrously wrong , particularly when used for extrapolation . |
| 14 | These are mutations of Lys22 ( to Glu , Ala or Arg ) , whose side chain in the crystal structure makes contact with the phosphate backbone of the DNA ; Lys23 ( to Glu , Ala or Arg ) , which is hydrogen-bonded to the guanine residue at operator positions 2 , 7 , 10 and 15 ( see Table 1 and ref. 1 for details of numbering system ) ; and Thr25 ( to Val , Gln or Asn ) , which is hydrogen-bonded to N7 of the adenines at positions 3 , 6 , 11 and 14 of the operator . |
| 15 | Often the volume of references and information produced by online services is considered to be too great and this ‘ sea of information ’ is confusing to the user . |
| 16 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 17 | This is due to a lack of the hormone insulin , normally produced in the pancreas . |
| 18 | Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away . |
| 19 | Clearly much of the credit for this is due to a very generous and grateful public . |
| 20 | It can be argued that the increase rather than the reduction in the need for aid is due to a series of weaknesses in its composition and nature . |
| 21 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 22 | It is due to a change of life-style |
| 23 | This fault is due to a shortage of an electrical part . |
| 24 | This is due to a lack of clarity in role definition , lack of training and inappropriate deployment of non-teaching staff . |
| 25 | When it comes to dampness , all is not always what it seems , so do n't automatically assume that a damp patch is due to a defective damp-proof course ( dpc ) . |
| 26 | The special nature of the progress zone is due to a signal from the overlying ridge . |
| 27 | Much of this is due to a combination of deforestation and the use of fire for clearance , which leave the soil susceptible to erosion , especially during periods of heavy rainfall which are relatively common . |
| 28 | It is decided that they should be treated as creating a trust ; the liberality of interpretation is due to a rescript . |
| 29 | Their success is due to a plague of rats , which thrive in the burgeoning oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ) plantations of the Peninsular . |
| 30 | This is due to a number of misguided actions , the chief of which is the yielding to a deep-seated wish on the part of some parents to prolong the babyhood stage for as long as possible . |