Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , housing benefit will be an element of the total package , but will not be for the whole cost of care and will not be wholly additional to current rates of care . |
| 2 | No system in the world can be wholly immune to bad weather conditions , but there are always lessons to be learnt . |
| 3 | In the LFAs , grants would be additionally available to part-time farmers . |
| 4 | It is also a question of equity , both within the current generation — poor inner-city children may be most vulnerable to arrested development caused by inhaling lead-polluted air — and across generations . |
| 5 | In November 1978 , DATEC issued further proposals in which it affirmed its philosophy that colleges should have the maximum opportunity to develop courses which they consider to be most appropriate to educational , commercial and professional needs as they are able to identify and define them . |
| 6 | In other words , it will be those that do just what the grumblers demand — cutting imports , using local suppliers , doing R&D on the spot — that will be most threatening to General Motors , Ford , Volkswagen , Peugeot and Fiat . |
| 7 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that his announcement about vertically launched Sea Wolf will be most welcome to British Aerospace in Bristol ? |
| 8 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 9 | The Institute 's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken . |
| 10 | Further complications are created by the fact that secret explicit collusion may be observationally equivalent to tacit collusion given surveillance methods constrained by considerations of ‘ liberty and justice ’ . |
| 11 | Using an author 's view of what he considers a ‘ derived ’ publication may also be somewhat open to subjective interpretation , because some authors will want to suggest different degrees of derivation than others , whereas using a published bibliography ought , in theory , to be more objective , provided one can be sure of one 's identification . |
| 12 | Four centuries earlier Socrates at Athens observed that a really righteous person would be so unacceptable to human society that he would be subjected to every humiliation and crucified . |
| 13 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 14 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 15 | The low birthweight may be caused by external factors , such as smoking during pregnancy ; premature babies , which may result from insufficient standards of antenatal care , will be highly prone to early infection . |
| 16 | These people will be highly attractive to would-be new entrants , who are expected to head-hunt them . |
| 17 | He argued that ‘ It would be entirely contrary to longstanding conventions in these matters to publish this sort of information . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed , both gamma rays and X-rays can be extremely damaging to living cells . |
| 19 | If it is to do this in a more precise , less trade-distorting way , it is bound to be less helpful to big and efficient farms than to small ones . |
| 20 | Following well-rehearsed dismounting drills , the riflemen poured out of the Warriors and in next to no time were providing their own fire support as the Warriors reversed away at high speed to give covering fire from positions where they would be less vulnerable to short-range anti-tank weapons . |
| 21 | Also , such a system would be less vulnerable to speculative attack . |
| 22 | I do not see why these opportunities should be less available to young people simply because they are in public care . |
| 23 | A slight staggering of schools ' starting and finishing times sometimes leads to a more efficient use of buses ( although the service may then be less convenient to other users ) . |
| 24 | However , larger-scale organizations tend to be less sensitive to local requirements and to have greater inertia and administrative encumbrances ( Richmond 1983 ) . |
| 25 | The ‘ adaptive ’ function is based on the proposition that what we call crime today includes forms of behaviour that will be crucially necessary to future society — Durkheim 's ( 1938 ) examples , are the ideas of Socrates and liberal philosophy which were once criminalised but which he sees as vital for contemporary society . |
| 26 | It 's not it 's brother or sister , or their brother or sister , it is unique , and it 's pattern of development , although of course it will be broadly similar to other children , exactly like no other child , and in a sense I would feel that the parental job is to judge very carefully the needs and the developmental cycle of their own child , and then stimulate to the extent that that child needs . |
| 27 | It 's not it 's brother or sister , or their brother or sister , it is unique , and it 's pattern of development , although of course it will be broadly similar to other children , exactly like no other child , and in a sense I would feel that the parental job is to judge very carefully the needs and the developmental cycle of their own child , and then stimulate to the extent that that child needs . |
| 28 | The sounds , as we have already said , must have provided a constant cacophonous background to the daily round , while the smell of a street which included a butcher and chandler 's shop , stables , a smithy , clothiers , workshops and a liberal supply of earth closets would be scarcely credible to modern sensibilities . |
| 29 | I saw that you must not only address the real needs of people but need to be genuinely open to new approaches and styles of work if you are ever going to make the rhetoric of involving communities in the planning and assessment of programmes a reality , or ensure active participation in health sector organizations . |
| 30 | Recent experimental work has suggested that lipoproteins ( VLDL ) obtained from diabetic animals ( streptozotocin diabetic rats ) may be more toxic to cultured porcine endothelial cells than lipoproteins obtained from control animals . |