Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are close to psychological notions of qualitative , subjective methods . |
| 2 | Clearly , conscious processes are central to an individual 's own experience , but most of us remain neutral as to whether they are central to cognitive processes given that many , if not most , of these are not conscious . |
| 3 | The elder and his dwindling following claim that misfortunes are the judgment of the outraged ancestors ; his opponents — led by those who covet his position — claim they are due to intolerable acts of malicious witchcraft , providing incontrovertible proof that their author is no longer fit to retain his exalted office . |
| 4 | In both the caecum and the trachea the chloride secretory responses were inhibited by frusemide , indicating that they are due to electrogenic chloride secretion from the basolateral to the luminal side of the epithelium . |
| 5 | A finance director challenged about the emergence of unexpected cash flow problems may be able to point out that they are due to invoicing delays caused by the breakdown of a new computer system , purchased and installed without sufficient thought and against his advice . |
| 6 | Thus , the results are very impressive : there is obviously a regular pattern in them , and as they are accountable to observed data , they are much more persuasive than categorical statements about language that are made on the basis of introspection alone . |
| 7 | ‘ They are good to old people here ; we shall probably get in if no one else does . |
| 8 | Bluntly , if the services and stock of the public library are under-used , they are vulnerable to financial cuts . |
| 9 | These criteria do not imply that other longer term influences are not at work and we would have to accept that some of these influences are historical , in that they are inherent to probable ‘ weak ’ parenting skills from John 's earliest life . |
| 10 | Concepts of social movement are therefore synonymous with problems of social change , for they are antagonistic to conservative beliefs ; and this gives a further insight into why the idea of social research is antithetical to police thought and has seditious connotations for an institution in which metaphors of stasis are of paramount importance . |
| 11 | All of these pieces of evidence are relevant to cat , and so would increment the level of evidence in the logogen for cat : but they are relevant to other words too . |
| 12 | An explicit decision should be taken as to whether the decision-making process should attempt to collect new and relevant data : the Rayner Report on Official Statistics ( Rayner , 1981 ) stated that official statistics should only be collected when they are relevant to central government decision-making . |
| 13 | Speech production is seen as relying on the reverse process — that is , the ability to translate abstract ideas into speech sounds and to articulate those speech sounds in such a way that they are comprehensible to other people . |
| 14 | Then the only possible sustainable prices are average cost ( not Ramsey ) prices , since they are equivalent to go-it-alone prices from efficient new entrants . |
| 15 | Therefore , if the mean expected dividend in years 1 and 2 are 10p and 12p , then they are equivalent to certain dividends of and respectively . |
| 16 | The fact is that elements like cran — and bil — do not carry any meaning at all , in the normal sense — they merely distinguish ; they are equivalent to numbered or lettered labels : ‘ ( berry ) type A/type B/type C … ’ . |
| 17 | They are deep to bright green , and slightly wavy . |
| 18 | It takes a clear head to retort : nonsense , they are endemic to modern life ; the real villain is the complacency . |
| 19 | But if they are difficult to love , then they are all to easy to envy . |
| 20 | In this respect they are similar to ethnographic restudies ( p. 92 ) . |
| 21 | Public enterprises , because they are subject to political control , are at most only partially affected by the discipline of the market ; as manifested , for example , in the often quoted platitude that public enterprises do not go bankrupt ( e.g. NEDO 1976 : 42 ) . |
| 22 | Once defined as unrespectable or dangerous , they are subject to legal prosecution , often by semi-legal and dubious methods . |
| 23 | The distinctive features of railway activities affect organization and management-workforce relations independently of the fact that in most countries of the world the major railway networks are owned and run by the state , and everywhere without exception they are subject to close state regulation . |
| 24 | In fact , of course , many behavioural traits are not constant throughout the life of an individual ; they are subject to developmental change . |
| 25 | The main conclusion from this research is that although health and work ability decline in some respects with age , they are subject to considerable personal variance . |
| 26 | At the end of their lives they are subject to hard copying , and the only thing which remains on-line is a record of the fact that they existed and the reference into the hard copy system for long term reference . |
| 27 | On the other hand , they are employees in that they do not own the organisation for which they work , they are salaried agents , and they are subject to superior authority . |
| 28 | If they are arthritic , their sight is poor , or they are subject to dizzy spells they may trip over the flex . |
| 29 | I mean there is extra heating requirement in buildings which are cooled much faster when they are subject to high winds , but I think we can see these coming up in the next ten , fifteen years we will start to see these . |
| 30 | The reason for this is not only that these organisations are inherently unlikely to broadcast such material , but also that they are subject to different controls as to the content of what they broadcast . |