Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , in a society which is consumer-orientated and largely sympathetic to the provision of welfare services , a considerable proportion of both private and public investment is geared to providing goods and services to people within fairly easy reach of their homes . |
| 2 | A striking example of this occurred in 1989 when a decision of the Divisional Court interpreting immigration rules was considered by the Treasury Solicitor 's Department to be wrong and too advantageous to the prospective immigrant . |
| 3 | The prospect of an integrated consultancy business , able to provide a wide range of management and engineering services , is very exciting and very relevant to the changing construction procurement methods of the nineties . |
| 4 | for the winter traveller the climate is harsh , very cold , very windy and very close to the sea . |
| 5 | The attitude that patients with sexually transmitted diseases are somehow different and decidedly inferior to the other members of the human race is still prevalent outside the medical profession , and , sadly , to a certain extent inside it . |
| 6 | I had considered my body to be lumpy , untidy , anomalous and entirely unsuited to the person within . |
| 7 | ( I have since called to mind G. K. Chesterton 's remark in Heretics that ideas are dangerous and most dangerous to the man of no ideas : ‘ the man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller . ’ ) |
| 8 | Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown . |
| 9 | The Hungarian people are warm and friendly and very open to the Gospel . |
| 10 | Despite what Dr Goode and others have said , however , I think the law and ethics governing the situation you 've been hearing about are both understandable and quite sensitive to the needs of patients and doctors . |
| 11 | You have to suffer the officials ' hostility and their slow , interrogative assessment of your visa 's validity , but the contrast between old and new is acute and strikingly pertinent to the state of Romania today . |
| 12 | This is when it can look most puzzling and most comical to the ignorant . |
| 13 | Naturally some of these people will be more vulnerable and more susceptible to the influence of their surroundings than others but most of them will be affected to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 14 | Lack of money and bureaucratic confusion has left a legacy from the Victorian era with the state looking backwards , remodelling ancient buildings and patching up a system of care which is fragmentary , pitifully inadequate and increasingly inadequate to the elderly age group . ’ |
| 15 | The most important incident of the reversion is the lessor 's right to the rent reserved by the lease , generally substantial and often equal to the full annual value of the property . |
| 16 | It would be less burdensome to the poor and more profitable to the King if Parliament were prorogued and a benevolence demanded . |
| 17 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we believe that the policy of settlements on the west bank is illegal and deeply unhelpful to the peace process . |
| 18 | These were complex and largely intrinsic to the care of children . |
| 19 | Both are then held to be deficient relative to Marx 's conception of a ‘ mode of production ’ within which differentiation can be understood , made intelligible and ultimately accountable to a materialistically grounded ethics of emancipation rooted in a conception of a ‘ complex ’ totality . |
| 20 | In order to secure a " constitutional premiership " that is less powerful and more accountable to the party and parliament , there are those within the Labour Party who would wish to change the British constitution so as to restrict the powers of a Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Some of the best conclusions are short and very much to the point . |
| 22 | We have become more civilised and more sensitive to the needs of individuals , and more reluctant to pander to prurience : hence our law against naming rape or blackmail victims , the limits on reporting evidence in divorce cases , and the rules against revealing old criminal convictions . |
| 23 | Thus , Tumin argues that ‘ some labour force of unskilled workmen is as important and as indispensable to the factory as some labour force of engineers ’ . |
| 24 | But Wagner 's art , so irresistible and so much to the fore in Nietzsche 's thinking , seemed to presuppose some value other than — or in addition to — beauty : and was this not also true of Greek art , on the basis of which the theory of beauty had been largely formed ? |
| 25 | Through relaxing and stilling the mind , sinking beneath the constant chatter of the conscious self , we become more and more receptive to the whispers from our Higher Self . |
| 26 | This will enable the Government to contract with a range of different organisations to provide a careers service which is more flexible and more responsive to the needs of local people and local employers . |
| 27 | These moves have had some success and adult education is probably now more open , more flexible and more responsive to the needs of the whole community than it was then . |
| 28 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 29 | The Foreign Office described the sentence as ‘ outrageous and totally disproportionate to the alleged offence ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The sentences are outrageous and totally disproportionate to the alleged offence . |