Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the spring of 1527 , Henry had convinced himself that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was contrary to divine law and canonically invalid , and had resolved to put Catherine aside and to marry Anne Boleyn . |
| 2 | In terms of gas concentrations and what comes down in the rain , rural parts of central and eastern England are similar to northern Germany . |
| 3 | ‘ Casting Britain 's Michael Crawford in the role of Cornelius was close to unintended farce , ’ they wrote . |
| 4 | Fuel Services MOX development activities at Windscale are subject to separate discussions with BNFL . |
| 5 | Similarly , but on a lesser scale — although still very big — the Californian earthquakes of San Francisco and Owens Valley were due to crustal movement and not to volcanoes . |
| 6 | SPAR is sensitive to different degrees of referential success , in that a reference to a focused entity is deemed to be more ‘ successful ’ than a reference to an unfocused one . |
| 7 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 8 | Techniques that went back to the age of Aristotle and the scholars of Alexandria were married to contemporary nations , among then the idea , conceived in the time of Leibnitz , of a historiography based on the study of original documents ; and the marriage bore fruit . |
| 9 | But it was the evidence of that 1–1 draw against City that persuaded Mr Ferguson that Robson is crucial to United 's title challenge . |
| 10 | A significant decline in the numbers of some traditional bird species in the UK is due to modern farming methods , according to research published by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 11 | As a structural analysis technique , TOF-SARS is sensitive to short range order — ie individual interatomic spacings along azimuths . |
| 12 | The public enthusiasm of New York 's governor , Mario L. Cuomo , for his candidacy suggested that Kerrey was acceptable to northern liberals , while his farm state background could give him some appeal in the South , and his war record , glamour and relative youth were also seen as advantages . |
| 13 | But Krieger was open to other influences , including Italian operatic song ( e.g. ‘ O schone Schäferin ’ ) and cantata ( e.g. ‘ Fleug , Psyche , fleug ’ ) ; he varied symmetry and burst the strophic form ( e.g. ‘ Adonis Tod ’ and ‘ Ich bin verwundt ’ ) with great skill and emotional power , and also commanded a lighter vein ( e.g. ‘ Rheinwein' and ‘ Es kann nichts angenehmer sein ’ ) . |
| 14 | Situated as it was in the corner of rural Essex , immediately adjacent to the sprawling East End of London , West Ham was subject to diverse influences ; in the final analysis , however , its growth can not be seen as integral to either of its neighbours . |
| 15 | Instead of Greece they went to Wyvis Hall because Adam was broke and Mary was close to broke because that first time it had been so beautiful and peaceful and private there that you could hardly see what advantages Greece would have had over it . |
| 16 | Until 1966 , the twelve or so commercial galleries in Cologne were devoted to mainstream , often foreign Modernism ; the impetus for the Art Fair was to create a market in Cologne for avant-garde German and international art . |
| 17 | The calculated value is less than the upper limit from Mariner 10 , indicating that Mercury is close to hydrostatic equilibrium . |
| 18 | This ‘ appropriateness ’ of Kahlo 's aesthetic to contemporary debate has tended to remove her work from its historical context , to stress the collective and the cross-cultural . |
| 19 | Washington tried to avoid any public impression of " collusion " or any suggestion that Britain was entitled to privileged treatment . |
| 20 | In rejecting the MLF he pointedly challenged the reliability of the American nuclear umbrella for Europe , now that the US was vulnerable to Soviet retaliation . |
| 21 | In 1950 the likely future evolution of Japan was open to diverse interpretation . |
| 22 | The trial judge held that on grounds of undue influence , misrepresentation and unilateral mistake Mrs. Jones was entitled to equitable relief against her personal covenant in the mortgage . |
| 23 | The BNP is opposed to coloured immigration . |
| 24 | MAGIC ITEMS : A High Elf Mage is entitled to magic items chosen from the appropriate cards . |
| 25 | Protecting the rights and dignity of people with HIV is vital to successful AIDS prevention and care . |
| 26 | On the other hand , FDI with superior technology could generate net welfare gains , despite monopoly rents , especially if there are spillovers to host-country producers ( e.g. where FDI is subject to local content rules ) . |
| 27 | By February 1933 the PCF was appealing to socialist workers to form a united proletarian front . |
| 28 | Sheffield is foreign to crazy officials |
| 29 | Meanwhile , a quiz buff at Shildon 's fair to maudlin match on Saturday asked which British club can claim most international caps won by players while still at the club ? |
| 30 | In the present case it is conceded that Mrs Mountford is entitled to exclusive possession and is not a lodger . |