Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is patronising to men and idolises women . |
| 2 | They may be prone to arguments and quarrel over any imagined offence . |
| 3 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 4 | The use of the modular approach initially brings the very real advantage that it appears to be more acceptable to users and provides greater insight for the designer of the design problem . |
| 5 | Donald Buttress ' solution was to tile the roof with ridged composition tiles of a greenish grey hue , which from below look remarkably similar to slates and blend very well with the stonework . |
| 6 | The SJ lamps are similar to incandescents as regards colour appearance and colour rendering . |
| 7 | Cut-ins , in which a close-up detail of something within the main shot is used , are similar to cutaways and serve much the same purpose . |
| 8 | Our old chums , the Fuggle and the Golding , are remarkably prone to attack by pests and disease , which is why varieties such as Challenger and Target — more resistant to aphids and wilt but less subtle in aroma and flavour — have been developed . |
| 9 | Spiers did much to make the museum 's collections more accessible to students and placed his wide-ranging knowledge ungrudgingly at the service of enquirers . |
| 10 | e ) the practical difficulties in deciding on professional grounds which clients are subject to restrictions when claiming on the fund ; |
| 11 | Others were subject to burns and suspended from prison walls for up to three consecutive nights . |
| 12 | The Directors may grant Discounted Options which are subject to conditions as outlined in paragraph 7 above in parallel to options with an option price at full market value on the dealing day preceding the date of invitation . |
| 13 | Subject to rigors and vomiting , redness and swelling of the face , pulse 86 , respirations 30 . |
| 14 | The author ( 1976 ) has applied the method to the solution of the lamellar stack problem referred to earlier in the chapter above and to the problem of the distribution of stress in a highly anisotropic plate subject to end-loads and discussed in the following chapter ( Figure 5.1 . ) |
| 15 | This able and likeable man was admirably adaptable to circumstances and had something of an eye to the main chance . |
| 16 | One is an area protection grant which gives extra to areas that suffered a substantial reduction in income from the business rate . |
| 17 | Civil servants speak Ukrainian to visitors and talk in Russian among themselves . |
| 18 | He has grown from about 1″ long to 6″ and has developed a beautiful long tail . |
| 19 | However , they are still vulnerable to predators that dig . |
| 20 | While feeding , they are vulnerable to predators and have to stay constantly alert : head down to feed , head up to look , head down to feed , and so on . |
| 21 | Garland denies possessing two photographs and information about the security forces likely to be useful to terrorists and making his house available to the IRA on August 2 , 1991 . |
| 22 | Roy Lambe , aged 25 , of Belfast , was charged with having two rifles , a pistol and ammunition with intent to endanger life ; possessing information likely to be useful to terrorists and raising money for the illegal loyalist group the Red Hand Commandos . |
| 23 | In Moore 's work flintstones , ground and chipped by sun and sea , are married to bones that have strained to flesh , sinew and muscle , to breed positive forms . |
| 24 | These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck . |
| 25 | Even outside a nuclear weapon it is a highly dangerous substance — fatal to humans if ingested in even minute quantities . |
| 26 | Though the principles of representative government are important to pluralists as embodying equal rights to vote , express opinion and associate with like-minded people for political ends , the individual citizen of a democracy needs to be able to join with others before an interest can be effectively mobilized . |
| 27 | Avoiding the crossing of a busy road , climbing a steep hill , or passing the shops can be much more important to parents than having to walk an extra few hundred yards . |
| 28 | It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans . |
| 29 | The developer made a claim against the owner for extra costs caused by additional building works due to variations and initiated the reference of the claim to an expert . |
| 30 | The high background on the long TOF side of the peaks is attributable to ions that have lost energy because of multiple collisions and penetration . |