Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Others , including myself , believe that non-punitive but truly compensatory damages awarded by the courts of the United Kingdom are preferable to the exorbitance of emotionally-driven jury awards , ’ he said . |
| 2 | This would help me in ensuring that project staff are alert to the need to establish links when new initiatives are being considered . |
| 3 | If support teachers are alert to the possibilities within their role , and allowed the flexibility to operate at the individual or whole-class level , then support for individual children can offer a way through to improving the quality of learning for all ( see , for example , Hodgson et al. |
| 4 | But this is a private language ; no one else could learn it , because the experiences by appeal to which the terms in it get their meaning are private to the speaker . |
| 5 | One answer is that unions also provide other goods which are private to the extent that they are available only to union members . |
| 6 | At the top-end are two new VAXes which are upgradable to the Alpha RISC via board swaps from next year . |
| 7 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 8 | All existing NetFrames are upgradable to the C/S family by adding Client/Server Application Processor engines . |
| 9 | On the whole , these informal practices are conducive to the management 's organizational goals rather than a departure from them . |
| 10 | The remains we have found , i.e. the keel and ballast are conducive to the site having been blown apart — some of the large bronze pins have been bent and distorted by the force . |
| 11 | The dilemmas and compromises which are inherent to the task of teaching need to be honestly identified and openly confronted . |
| 12 | Memories are cruel to the present in that way and , as far as sexual intercourse is concerned , it is axiomatic that familiarity breeds contempt . ’ |
| 13 | Smetana 's Vltava was pleasant , beautifully in tune — parts of the piece are cruel to the wind players — but it trickled into glorious Prague like a kindly trout stream , instead of surging with splendour . |
| 14 | Its worship and its priests and its teaching are strange to the society in which it lives . |
| 15 | It is a pattern which tells against analyses which present mergers largely as the outcome of marketing and technical factors which are specific to the industries concerned . |
| 16 | Many of the issues in psychobiology are specific to the topics concerned . |
| 17 | It is more likely that delays are specific to the journals to which papers are submitted , and that if there are differences in publishing ‘ behaviour ’ between departments ( See 3.6 above ) , then these are probably the major factors influencing delays . |
| 18 | It is more likely that delays are specific to the journals to which papers are submitted , and that if there are differences in publishing ‘ behaviour ’ between departments ( See 3.6 above ) , then these are probably the major factors influencing delays . |
| 19 | If lesion A affects function X but not function Y while lesion B affects function Y but not function N , it is reasonable to assume that the effects observed are specific to the loci of lesions A and B rather than to the general effects of brain damage . |
| 20 | They thus become an indicator of how far out of balance the organism is and of how deeply the system has been affected , and are specific to the individual irrespective of the basic cause of the imbalance . |
| 21 | Some of their skills and knowledge are specific to the company for which they work , and they would be of less value to another company . |
| 22 | Well there are a number of reasons , some of which are specific to the Cambridge to the context of this authority . |
| 23 | It is uncertain whether they are directly applicable to our system , where the majority of errors are specific to the pattern recogniser . |
| 24 | Remember that these system commands are specific to the Nottingham University ICL 3900 computer system ; you will have to use the equivalent command appropriate to the computer system used at your computer centre . |
| 25 | remove any INI files which are specific to the application |
| 26 | In each field , the criteria are specific to the discipline in question . |
| 27 | These activities also provide an opportunity for developing effective working relationships with departments and for facilitating the means by which staff can develop skills that are specific to the needs of particular departments . |
| 28 | His principal criticism is one to which we have already referred : that Jakobson does not differentiate linguistic features which are perceptible to the reader from those which are not , and which therefore remain ‘ alien to the poetic structure ’ ( Riffaterre 1966 : 207 ) of the text . |
| 29 | In large measure , these differences are due to the criticisms of the Aristotelian scheme made by some of those who are treated in this book , and in its companion , The Rationalists . |
| 30 | Apart from the points discussed above , which are due to the structure of the file , two more considerations will influence the space required by the file . |