Example sentences of "[adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The style and format of teachers ' guides vary from the most detached to the most prescriptive . |
| 2 | Privately-owned housing varies from the detached to the terraced and , for a variety of reasons , detached housing is the most expensive . |
| 3 | Also , other measures of pairwise probe distance/similarity may prove to be better-suited to future applications than the maximum-likelihood distance used here . |
| 4 | Attempts were made to sell the PC-5 to the USAAC , but they showed no interest , due to the use of strategic materials . |
| 5 | Augustine 's world had still contained blocks refractory to the light of the gospel . |
| 6 | Although there are several possible explanations for these findings as reviewed by Skaer ( 1981 ) , it is possible that some α-granules may remain refractory to secretory stimuli . |
| 7 | On the other hand , providing a false diagnosis adds to patients ' disability , reinforces maladaptive behaviour , and ensures that what might have been a brief illness becomes refractory to treatment . |
| 8 | As affectivity is the most obscure side of man , there has been the constant temptation to resort to it , forgetting that what is refractory to explanation ipso facto unsuitable for use in explanation . |
| 9 | To an anthropologist , the conscious creation of a culture by management is amusing , because all human groups have culture by nature , and these systems of values and beliefs are shaped by experience , tradition , class position , and political circumstances — all powerful forces that are extremely refractory to directed change , particularly by occasional committee . |
| 10 | Two of these patients who were refractory to H 2 antagonist treatment required treatment with omeprazole and one of them ( No 7 ) eventually needed a highly selective vagotomy . |
| 11 | However , the challenge is there to be met and oncogene manipulation may provide the next real step forward in a disease which has proved largely refractory to radio- or chemotherapy , and in which prognosis has changed little over the past 40 years . |
| 12 | Pouchitis usually responds well to treatment with antibiotics , but in a small subset of cases the inflammation is clinically severe , endoscopically atypical , and relatively refractory to conventional treatment . |
| 13 | Patients with ‘ non-ulcer dyspepsia ’ who seem refractory to all treatments might be assessed in this way to ensure they do not have a gross disorder of gastric emptying , but the likelihood that the result will advance clinical management seems small . |
| 14 | Patients with complex partial epilepsy refractory to medical treatment , and who had been assessed for epilepsy surgery , were studied between April , 1989 and October , 1992 . |
| 15 | Failed medical treatment was followed by a 2 year remission post-splenectomy before relapse refractory to all conventional therapy except cyclosporin 50–200 mg daily . |
| 16 | Undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma ( UF9 ) cells are refractory to cAMP and become cAMP-responsive following differentiation to endoderm like cells . |
| 17 | Undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma ( UF9 ) cells are refractory to cAMP and become cAMP-responsive following retinoic acid-induced differentiation ( 34 , 35 , 36 ) . |
| 18 | Other sites produced DNase I footprints and enhanced reaction with diethylpyrocarbonate but were refractory to cleavage . |
| 19 | T n tracts are refractory to enzyme cleavage . |
| 20 | You 'll be faster , less bothersome to other parties , and wo n't spend the whole climb in mortal fear of tripping up on your own rope ! |
| 21 | It can not be useful to talk about population growth ( Nature 362 , 379 ; 1993 ) as a ‘ threat to the global commons ’ that may need to be ‘ dealt with by coercion ’ before it becomes bothersome to ‘ the rest of us ’ , which I assume means those of us lucky enough to live in countries where contraceptives are readily available . |
| 22 | The interwar years witnessed an increase in national membership from 4,131,000 in 1919 to 8,716,000 in 1940 , while the number of societies fell from 1357 to 1065 . |
| 23 | definitely less cruel than hunting because the animal is chased and er , what it 's heart is doing while it 's being chased and it 's , really is the idea 's quite horrendous to me ! |
| 24 | They were so horrendous to each other . |
| 25 | The church was built in 1876 to the designs of Henry Woodyer ( 1816–96 ) , an accomplished church architect who designed many ecclesiastical buildings , a large number of which are located in Surrey . |
| 26 | In 1874 he moved to London , first to Clapham Common , and then in 1876 to 8 Gower Street . |
| 27 | From 1876 to 1891 he was lecturer in anatomy at the college , and in 1891 he was appointed dean and professor of pathology and bacteriology . |
| 28 | The whole raison d'être of these devices and software is to enable copy-protection to be overcome . |
| 29 | ‘ They are unsociable to the quality of life we enjoy within our village . |
| 30 | e , pH o , as in a , but polarizing from +7 to -70mV , in the presence of 100μM L-glutamate or D-aspartate. f , Data in e normalized by the extra uptake currents produced by the +7 to -70mV voltage steps ( 162 and 54pA for L-Glu and D-Asp ) . |