Example sentences of "are [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects Standy Credits are preferable to Bank Guarantees because virtually all Credits , including Standby Credits , issued by banks are subject to a set of internationally accepted rules drawn up by the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris , known as UCP 400 . |
| 2 | Bacteriological plastic Petri dishes ( e.g. from Sterilin ) are preferable to glass because the embryos are less inclined to skid about . |
| 3 | This emerges clearly in Lipset 's treatment of the specific institutional arrangements and procedures which are conducive to legitimacy : cross-pressures ; widespread and multiple membership in voluntary associations ; the two-party system ; federalism , territorial rather than proportional representation . |
| 4 | No matter how interesting the speakers , neither a full morning without a break , nor subdued lighting in an overheated room , are conducive to alertness and sparkling debate . |
| 5 | When he thinks thoughts that enhance the good emotions , then the body responds ; if those thoughts are conducive to compassion , then a feeling of warmth occurs and spreads through the mind . |
| 6 | The overall shape of the curve shown in figure 12.1 is typical for linear amorphous polymers in general , although the temperatures quoted are specific to polystyrene and will differ for other polymers . |
| 7 | Todorov goes on to suggest that these properties of literary discourse are specific to literature itself , and invokes the Russian Formalist concept of ‘ literariness ’ . |
| 8 | But he disagreed that economic ‘ laws ’ are ‘ natural ’ or inevitable , insisting that current economic ‘ realities ’ ( such as poverty wages ) are specific to capitalism . |
| 9 | The processes of dilution and succussion are specific to homoeopathy and are not used in the preparation of any other forms of medicine , although somewhat similar methods are used by the anthroposophical people in the preparation of the Weleda range of remedies and products . |
| 10 | Following this line of reasoning , we have recently defined a series of DNase I hypersensitive sites flanking the class II MHC locus and have shown that these sites are specific to cell lines which are developmentally programmed to express the class II MHC gene products ( i.e. B cell lineage cell lines ) , or to those actually expressing class II MHC at the cell surface ( 26 ) . |
| 11 | They are due to surface next month . |
| 12 | Intrinsic centres are due to lattice imperfections such as growth distortions and other electronic lattice defects , acquired independently of the composition of the precipitating medium . |
| 13 | The board 's inspectors said that about 40 per cent of incidents of pollution recorded there are due to contamination by silage effluent or slurry . |
| 14 | Suspended sediment load data , however , provide only a crude measure of overall erosion and do not reveal the proportions of that load which are due to agriculture , logging , urban development , etc . |
| 15 | Some of the overall costs are due to meat inspections , but not all of them . |
| 16 | PROTESTORS will today make a late appeal for a change of heart by councillors who are due to rubber-stamp their decision to close eight old people 's homes in County Durham . |
| 17 | All the dimensional and mechanical changes in wood which are due to moisture occur below the fibre saturation point , that is between 0 per cent and 25 per cent moisture content . |
| 18 | At least 90% of lung cancers are due to smoking . |
| 19 | Of course , this can not apply to all the unemployed : our unemployment levels today are due to government policy and the world economic crisis , rather than to worsening national health ! |
| 20 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 21 | Indeed , he does not seem to be aware that it exists : ‘ All Darwinism has to say about such miracles is that they are due to chance . ’ |
| 22 | Studies of the contraception used before an unplanned pregnancy indicate that an increasing proportion of such pregnancies are due to condom failure . |
| 23 | The dips in the reflectance curve for healthy vegetation at 0.4 and 0.6–0.8 m are due to absorption by the growing vegetation to provide energy for the process of photosynthesis. ( b ) The actual reflectance spectrum of an object ( upper diagram ) and the spectrum recorded by a broad-band sensor such as Landsat 's Multispectral Scanner . |
| 24 | Tory ministers , like Michael Heseltine who visited Meadowell last November , say the cash shortages are due to council profligacy and bad management . |
| 25 | Chris said : ‘ The majority of cycling deaths are due to head injuries . |
| 26 | According to Shanan ( 1987 ) , irrigation efficiencies are so low that between 35 and 45 per cent of the water entering the canal system never actually reaches the fields ; losses are due to evaporation and unlined drainage ditches . |
| 27 | Earlier or later maturity are quite normal and natural , although extremes ( ovulation and menstruation have been known to occur as early as six years of age ) are due to malfunction . |
| 28 | Bearing this in mind , an examination of clinical observations of spontaneous abortions in humans would suggest that over 25 to 30 per cent of all such abortions are due to aneuploidy . |
| 29 | Chloral is a sedative and not an analgesic , so if it is felt that the above signs are due to pain , the doctor must prescribe analgesia in addition to , or instead of , chloral . |
| 30 | It is unlikely that these deficits are due to loss of a neural mechanism dedicated to brightness discrimination . |