Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 2 | But if this is a mistake and animals are properly to be understood as primitive beings , at least as different from us as they are similar , then their modest entitlement to humane treatment , accorded them by common sense and enshrined in the law , might well be vindicated . |
| 3 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 4 | If , however , Morgan v. Palmer and Steele v. Williams are properly to be regarded as cases of extortion colore officii the same must be true of Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , which followed them . |
| 5 | ( b ) I do not accept that quasi-contractual claims , even where a contract is involved , are properly to be treated as falling per se within article 5(1) , having regard both to the general considerations I have already advanced in my analysis of the cases such as Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and also because it is difficult to locate a place of performance for a quasi-contractual obligation . |
| 6 | Whether Josquin and his fellow Northerners active in Italy are properly to be regarded as ‘ Renaissance ’ figures , a question that he ponders at some length , is at bottom a non-issue . |
| 7 | Occasionally sacks can be obtained with a ‘ zip-off ’ front pocket which can be converted to a day sack , although these are mostly to be found on convertible sacks used as travel luggage . |
| 8 | Alternative traditions to the analytic one are mostly to be found in Continental Europe ( and in some North American universities ) . |
| 9 | The married women are rarely to be seen outside . |
| 10 | We will try to impart suggestions , tips and hints that we have found useful , but which , if ever , are rarely to be found in books . |
| 11 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 12 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 13 | Natural fibres are much to the fore and you can find the most splendid colours in wool and mohair , though there is also a strong feeling for the velvety look of chenille — it 's easy to knit too ! |
| 14 | I liked his gentle , unimpeded sense of flow in the opening Andante dolce ( his slightly brisker tempo does n't quite achieve the same buoyancy as Richter ) , and his finely controlled phrasing and subtle ‘ nodal-pointing ’ are much to be admired also . |
| 15 | Their energies and enthusiasm are greatly to be admired . |
| 16 | Left : Another good predator is the Arrow Crab Stenorhyncus seticornis , which is safe in reef aquaria so long as they do n't contain small shrimps , which along with juvenile crabs are greatly to the Arrow Crab 's taste . |
| 17 | In those circumstances , my right hon. Friend 's proposals are greatly to be welcomed , to ensure that Tamils who are genuine and need asylum can be properly considered . |
| 18 | Perhaps we should blame the English for this , because it started to be built early in the thirteenth century , when Bayonne was ours , and the English royal arms of the day are apparently to be found , alongside those of France , emblazoned on some of the keystones of the very high vaulting in the nave . |
| 19 | It also does not correspond to the fundamental assumptions on which the new security systems should be based , for essential elements which would guarantee security are apparently to be excluded . |
| 20 | The extreme heteromorphs are perhaps to be found in the genus Nipponites , which looks like a tangle of whorls where any obvious semblance of symmetrical coiling seems to have been lost ( see left ) , and Baculites which is virtually straight after its earliest whorls . |
| 21 | More useful comparisons than those made in Table 4.4 are perhaps to be made by means of subgroup analysis , even though with this method one is necessarily handling very small numbers . |
| 22 | Since 1967 some local fluctuations have occurred , but such changes are perhaps to be expected . |
| 23 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 24 | Given the arguments of the sceptics , such failures are only to be expected of course ; aiming to replace anxious intellectual despair with a calm peace of mind , the traditional Pyrrhonian response would have been to advocate suspension of judgement . |
| 25 | Private schools , however , are only to be found in the urban areas , which further lessens the chances of secondary schooling for rural children . |
| 26 | Some species , usually the larger , more aggressive ones , are only to be found in very small numbers . |
| 27 | In daylight they are only to be seen from ships at sea , when the two smaller petrels appear all dark birds with white rumps as they flutter and dance across the waves . |
| 28 | … they meant well — they felt kindly towards him , and acknowledged his provocations ; but they fell into the too common error of supposing that the finer feelings , which induce a man to prefer death to dishonour , are only to be recognised among the higher classes ; and that , because circumstances may have placed a man before the mast , he will undergo punishment , however severe , however degrading … in preference to death . |
| 29 | On the other hand , a concept such as ‘ bureaucracy ’ is a particular one , for bureaucracies are only to be found in particular sons of societies . |
| 30 | The concept of social representations is also used in a particular way , in order to suggest that social representations are only to be found in certain societies . |