Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 2 | Certain kinds of shares have features which make them economically similar to debt . |
| 3 | She might only lose her temper about once every five years , but when she lost it , boy , did she lose it , and events these last few days had been urging her dangerously near to boiling-point . |
| 4 | There is , for example , no possible syntagmatic modification of animal which would render it cognitively equivalent to dog ( or elephant , mouse , crocodile , … ) . |
| 5 | Absorb the complement with agarose ( 30 ) , store it at 70 C and only thaw it immediately prior to use . |
| 6 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |
| 7 | The studies of Thieblot and Haggard , and Grant and Wallace provide a useful checklist of those features of a ‘ strike setting ’ which make it particularly conducive to disorder . |
| 8 | He promised to demystify the all-powerful presidency and make it more accountable to congress and the voter . |
| 9 | The large size and wide-ranging habit of the orangutan make it especially vulnerable to devastation in tropical rainforests . |
| 10 | Because sentencing is viewed by magistrates as a craft or mystery , whose rites are known only to initiates , ( as opposed to a rational enterprise dedicated to the pursuit of externally defined goals ) , this renders it both impervious to criticism from outside , and highly resistant to attempts at external control . |
| 11 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 12 | Curt Rohland , the president of the National Family Farm Coalition , said that the GAO report confirmed many farmers ' views that treating cows with a synthetic hormone puts the animals under greater stress , making them more vulnerable to infection , and hence leading to an increased use of antibiotics . |
| 13 | The small size of the formulations compared to red blood cells means they could penetrate solid tumours , making them more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiotherapy , and they could reach inaccessible parts of the heart during surgery . |
| 14 | I mean what what gives you more right to life than an animal does ? |
| 15 | Around 80% of its business is generated through value-added resellers and dealers — of which there are 500 in the UK alone — making it particularly vulnerable to piracy . |
| 16 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 17 | However , as it was impossible to know whether it was blow one or blow ten ( the maximum number permitted at the moment ) which drew the blood on Roy 's Dream , it did serve to underline that though the Jockey Club may be moving in the right direction , its pace of reform is still too slow , leaving it too open to criticism . |
| 18 | The bird 's retreat has led the Forestry Commission to modify three of its forests to make them more welcoming to capercaillie . |
| 19 | For instance , there is evidence that a long history of failure in an important area of a person 's life makes them particularly vulnerable to depression in the context of a major loss or disappointment which could be interpreted as further evidence of their lack of competence . |
| 20 | When people begin speechreading instruction , their eagerness to progress and to understand everything instantly makes them very vulnerable to fatigue . |
| 21 | This makes women cheaper to dismiss and makes them more vulnerable to redundancy . |
| 22 | Consider spraying your carpets with stain-retardant which coats the fibres and makes them more resistant to dirt and spills . |
| 23 | Yet the problem they faced over letting their daughter go out which now , with hindsight , leaves them so open to criticism , is a very familiar one for parents . |
| 24 | Hence the social acceptability of earlier retirement by women can prove a mixed blessing : it gives them more chance to leave paid work at a time of their own choosing , but also leaves them more open to pressure from others to retire . |
| 25 | A history of failure in an area of life to which the person is highly committed not only makes him particularly vulnerable to depression following a further experience of failure , but can also raise the probability of further failures . |
| 26 | Secondly , regular working of the soil makes it continually receptive to colonisation by native or naturalised species as ‘ weeds ’ . |
| 27 | Particularly if we adopt a ‘ transactional ’ perspective , emphasizing inter-personal exchanges and transactions , study of the forces animating community life inevitably brings us very close to psychiatry and social psychology where the roles people play are also of critical importance . |