Example sentences of "be [adj] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abolition may be preferable to a slow death but education in London is bound to suffer , especially in the poorer boroughs . |
| 2 | That is , it is probably undesirable for co-operative R&D ventures to include all producers of a competing range of products , and two or more co-operative projects serving the same downstream industry are likely to be preferable to a single , all-inclusive project . |
| 3 | That would be preferable to the ridiculous procedure of considering a station in one Bill and a high-speed link in another . |
| 4 | A loss might be made on this transaction , but such a loss would be preferable to the total abandonment of one 's savings or wealth , which would in any case have still had a value as bullion . |
| 5 | The use of better measures of ( housing ) deprivation , such as the Census-based ACORN ( A Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods ) or PINPOINT schemes would undoubtedly be preferable to the current indicators . |
| 6 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 7 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 8 | If it is decided that use of a measure of material deprivation is informative and conceptually sound , then simple measures based on easily available and regularly updated measures would be preferable to the opaque and statistically complex derived indices . |
| 9 | This may be preferable to the opposite mistake ( where someone 's understanding is far stronger than his faith ) , but a better way is to develop both faith and understanding together . |
| 10 | It was a desperate plan , with little hope of success , but Caledor and many like him thought a last desperate gamble would be preferable to the slow death the Elf people were enduring . |
| 11 | Indeed , as a matter of political necessity at home , it had to assume ( and this had also weighed heavily with Roosevelt ) that a return to the " old power politics system " would be abhorrent to the great mass of Americans . |
| 12 | Apart from this finding , judgement in determining who is a good leader is bound to be subjective to a certain extent . |
| 13 | Whether the appropriate measure will be nearer to a full commercial rate or to a nil rate ( as with NHS services ) will depend on the facts of each case ( see Housecroft v Burnett [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 332 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if Bob stays and then he 'll be nearer to the high moor if the weather clears . |
| 15 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 16 | The House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman , because he has been making a clear statement and drawing a clear distinction between the two sides of the House . |
| 17 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will agree that we should be grateful to the vast majority of staff who work in children 's homes and who deal daily with children who , almost by definition , are difficult and disturbed . |
| 18 | Some of my hon. Friends will be grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his advocacy of the rural cause . |
| 19 | The treatment and disposal of hazardous waste in the United Kingdom is an important subject , and the whole House must be grateful to the hon. Member for Londonderry , East ( Mr. Ross ) for raising it this evening . |
| 20 | The clinician should be alert to the possible repetition of a serious attempt in hospital . |
| 21 | For organisations like the Runnymede Trust , it is crucial to be alert to the various fronts upon which racism appears , and offer whatever support we can to those who want to challenge it . |
| 22 | With both , it is important to keep an open mind and to be alert to the various clues and pointers to meaning that appear as the communication unfolds . |
| 23 | As far as house prices and rents are concerned , no evidence has emerged yet of any changes that could be attributable to the environmental traffic management schemes . |
| 24 | In some cases this may be attributable to the Swiss tendency to conserve ( money , not nature ) ; in others , the terrain makes links between areas impracticable or unnecessary . |
| 25 | Some may be attributable to the initial aim of the binary policy to create a sector with a more applied or vocationally relevant emphasis and ethos , although the extent to which that was eroded in the 1970s by ‘ academic drift ’ is open to question ( Pratt and Burgess 1974 ; Donaldson 1975 ; Neave 1978 , 1979b ) . |
| 26 | In which case , if all the other factors have been adequately controlled , any difference in output has to be attributable to the independent variable since it is the only difference between the two groups . |
| 27 | The calming and relaxing effect of electro-acupuncture using 10 Hz through particular acupuncture points may be due to a similar reason . |
| 28 | Nocturnal enuresis can be due to a urinary tract infection , or other medical conditions . |
| 29 | I want you to look for anything unusual — anything that could be due to a black hole . |
| 30 | A CO band above 1900 cm -1 is therefore almost certainly due to a terminal CO ; a band below this frequency may be due to a bridging ligand , but it could also be ascribed to a terminal ligand with some unusually severe reduction of the CO bond strength through back-bonding . |