Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The government attributes this to the improvements in efficiency achieved during the course of the country 's intensive reactor building programme .
2 So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage .
3 The procedures of public decision-making , therefore , may be more cautious than in the private sector , and more prone to the excesses of paper record-keeping in case the decision needs to be defended at a later date .
4 This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought .
5 In theory the system was efficient and just ; in practice it was prone to the limitations of travel , seasons , and the possibility of corruption , which was inevitable in such an extended empire .
6 Planted at an altitude of between 100 and 200 metres , the higher situated vines are less prone to the dangers of frost and provide well-structured , fruity wines .
7 Gandhi is faithful to the traditions of Hinduism when he affirms the isomorphism of Truth ( Satya ) and Reality ( Sat ) .
8 Cabinet members and other senior administrators were also obliged to attend indoctrination sessions where major figures , from the president down , lectured them on the virtues of teamwork and exhorted them to remain faithful to the principles of Reaganism .
9 Given these conditions of campaigning it is not surprising that when they get to Washington legislators are even more inclined towards individualistic behaviour than before , and even less responsive to the appeals of party leaders and presidents .
10 The chitinous external skeleton seems to be particularly responsive to the demands of evolution .
11 The overall aim of the Enterprise Centre is to enable students and staff to develop the essential enterprise/transferable skills to operate and succeed in a changing employment and business environment and thus make Napier University more responsive to the needs of work .
12 — make a special effort in the coming year to show themselves responsive to the needs of industry , both in terms of collaboration in research and development , and the provision of well-trained and well-motivated graduates for recruitment to industry .
13 Is there any chance of the Government issuing similar instructions to ask health boards to be responsive to the needs of health service workers ?
14 Each image pulsed animatedly , responsive to the currents of fortune , to the ebb and flow of events , to the forces of cleansing light and of dark malevolent corrupt insanity .
15 Another sympathizer was Lord Furness , a self-made man from the very bottom of the ladder , whom the NSFU recalled " as a great shipowner who was never averse to the claims of justice and fair play , always approachable in any difficulty , from whom a case reasonably stated never failed to obtain a patient hearing and who was never spoiling for a fight " .
16 Sealing after that date does not invalidate the deed ; the presence of a seal is merely superfluous to the requirements for execution .
17 Second , the form of the political system means that non-dominant classes have access to the state and hence may influence state policy in directions antipathetic to the interests of capital .
18 It was so different to the classrooms at school .
19 It should come as no surprise , therefore , to find that detailed ethnography of police social practice is antithetical to the philosophies of control by which they operate .
20 Sometimes the enamel is almost entirely eaten away , and the dentine can take on an appearance similar to the effects of weathering ( Fig. 3.23 H ) .
21 The effects of this regime on subsequent recovery sleep are similar to the effects of REM sleep deprivation , in that a rebound of about 50 per cent occurs on recovery nights .
22 In some insects , including cockroaches , locusts , earwigs and termites , the young , known as nymphs , are very similar to the adults in structure and physiology , and advance to adulthood through an ordered series of moults .
23 In early 1983 , infra-red images from a US NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ) satellite showed a large cloud , similar to the plumes of gas that rise over volcanoes , off the north coast of eastern Siberia .
24 Kokand was by no means an isolated incident , and drove those initially favourable to the Bolsheviks into opposition .
25 Such a system will be highly resistant to the effects of damage to individual modules and will only begin to show marked alterations in function when a large proportion of the modules has been damaged .
26 This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism .
27 Furthermore , although Hayek 's is a particular theory within the tradition of liberalism , the key themes which pervade his work — the supreme principle of liberty , the character of state power , and the relationship between the individual and the state — are themes which are central to the tenets of liberalism .
28 De-differentiation refers to the reversal of that differentiation process which observers such as Weber ( 1978 ) saw as central to the processes of modernity .
29 The idea of questioning is central to the chapters on reading , note making and documentary evidence .
30 I mean that Britain , for example , became more central to the currents of world trade .
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