Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adj] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost £2.10 … ( this being equal to a tradesman 's pay for a 49-hour week ) . |
| 2 | This is subject to a requirement that the current owner in possession originally purchased the work : |
| 3 | As national income rises , some of it is spent on imports and this is equivalent to a rise in other countries ' exports . |
| 4 | The whole of a control area is referenced by the entries in a single index record , and in a sense this is equivalent to a cylinder in ISAM terms . |
| 5 | This is due to a variety of circumstances ranging from accessibility and remoteness of locations and their suitability for women to local legislation in some countries which prohibits the employment of women either completely or in certain types of jobs . |
| 6 | This is due to a lack of the hormone insulin , normally produced in the pancreas . |
| 7 | This is due to a lack of clarity in role definition , lack of training and inappropriate deployment of non-teaching staff . |
| 8 | This is due to a number of misguided actions , the chief of which is the yielding to a deep-seated wish on the part of some parents to prolong the babyhood stage for as long as possible . |
| 9 | In part this is due to a desire to avoid a rigidly causal account which will straitjacket capitalist societies into a single position , not allowing for their diversity and variation . |
| 10 | Perhaps this is due to a reluctance to let go of the past , and perhaps too there is a parallel in other parts of the garden with the modern revival of interest in ‘ wild ’ and ‘ natural ’ gardens and plants . |
| 11 | Much of this is due to a combination of deforestation and the use of fire for clearance , which leave the soil susceptible to erosion , especially during periods of heavy rainfall which are relatively common . |
| 12 | I 'm , in my own mind , I 'm sure this is due to a proliferation of working parties , extra committee meetings a , a , and seminars , and I personally think it 's typical of when your party get anywhere near control that there is always more talking and less action , but I do believe that we , we , we 're , we are not looking good in the eyes of the public in this overspending of our own allowances . |
| 13 | This is similar to a negligence test , but in the statutory action the burden of proof is on the employer . |
| 14 | This is analogous to a script language or batch file , in that you set up a file transfer transaction which can be repeated every day , short-cutting the need to highlight and copy individual files . |
| 15 | It is tempting to think of dietary fibre as the tough stuff which holds the plant together , and this is true to a degree , but it can be misleading when it comes to locating high-fibre plants by guesswork . |
| 16 | So in everything that we do and staying spiritually awake , we have to do something , it all comes back to you and I at the end of the day , no one else can do it for us we sometimes think well , well , so and so can help , I mean this is true to a degree , but at the end of the day it all comes back to us does n't it ? |
| 17 | But this was due to a variety of special factors — especially lower mortgage-interest rates and the net effect of the recent changes in the poll tax and value-added tax . |
| 18 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 19 | This was due to a number of practices , including the willingness of local authorities to pre-fund or defer expenditure , and to enter into various lease-back arrangements with developers and/or funding institutions . |
| 20 | These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much . |
| 21 | As we heard from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary , the maximum penalty for someone aged 16 or 17 is subject to a ceiling of one year . |
| 22 | However , both those were subject to a ceiling , determined by the practice list size . |
| 23 | Very few studies have sought to position shoplifting within a broader social and political sphere , where women in particular are vulnerable to a consumer fetishism that drives them to lawbreaking … |
| 24 | This ‘ centralization and internationalization of capital ’ knew no political boundaries , and the UK in particular was prone to a loss of investment overseas and increased imports ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 25 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 26 | Perhaps the reason for that is similar to a reason given to George Ward , my predecessor as Member for Worcester , who represented the constituency from 1945 to 1959 . |
| 27 | This system uses three classes of punctuation to distinguish whether the punctuation is a comma ( , ) , a punctuation mark that is internal to a sentence ( i.e. : ; ( ) and ’ ) or if it can be a sentence-final punctuation mark ( i.e .. ! ? ) . |
| 28 | The balance of this site we 'll be doing , as I say , twenty five shared ownership properties and that 's subject to a bid er , in for the next financial year er which again is obviously subject to , to your support , but as I said , it will be our first priority . |
| 29 | Er , yes that 's that 's true to a degree , Chairman . |
| 30 | Twenty five over a hundred is equal to a quarter . |