Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martina Navratilova announced she is likely to retire at the end of next year after she blasted aside Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere 6–2 , 6–2 in the first round of the Virginia Slims championships in New York . |
| 2 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 3 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 4 | The impact upon investment appraisal will be left until chapter 6 , but it is appropriate to look at the effect upon costing here . |
| 5 | Therefore , it is appropriate to start at the market portfolio and consider it in some depth . |
| 6 | It is essential to realise at the outset that desktop publishing software is totally unlike any other software product category . |
| 7 | Given the mythology surrounding Nizan 's life and work , it is essential to establish at the outset the full range and scope of Nizan 's activities in order to highlight the very real intellectual and literary qualities of the man himself . |
| 8 | It is essential to establish at the outset the correct relationship between Nizan and the communist party . |
| 9 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 10 | The intuition behind this optimal strategy is straightforward : it is optimal to sell all or nothing — all when the current price is higher than the price that one can expect to get on future sales , nothing otherwise ; it is optimal to produce at the point where marginal cost equals the expected price on sales . |
| 11 | For example , in a fast-moving train it is better to look at the horizon than at the close landscape — it is even better to avoid looking out of the window . |
| 12 | Rather it is necessary to look at the people involved — the professionals — and understand how they relate both to their clients and to the organisations in which they work , for it is these structures that powerfully condition the primary relationships . |
| 13 | In order to fully comprehend the nature of the relationship between these sectors of the economy , it is necessary to look at the empirical material . |
| 14 | They believe that it is necessary to look at the parents individually . |
| 15 | To illustrate further the significance of the Rasakumbha , it is necessary to look at the traditional teachings surrounding the Sanskrit words ‘ Rasa ’ and ‘ Kumbha ’ . |
| 16 | Therefore , where a subsidiary has shares in issue it is necessary to look at the effect on the group as a whole in preparing the consolidated financial statements and by considering the rights attaching to the shares in conjunction with any agreements to which other group companies are a party . |
| 17 | By defining retirement as coterminous with dependency , the ‘ structured dependency ’ authors inevitably see the trend towards earlier retirement as regrettable , but in fact it need not be so : this depends on the extent to which retirement leads subsequently to poverty in old age , and to discover this it is necessary to look at the other three main determinants of the financial status of the elderly . |
| 18 | It is necessary to look at the words which appear at the foot of the defined expressions in section 251 . |
| 19 | However , as we have seen earlier in relation to corporal punishment , it is instructive to look at the ‘ small print ’ in his writings . |
| 20 | Deconstructionists believe that it is impossible to reach at the ‘ truth ’ of a text , because every interpretation of a work is itself open to interpretation — endlessly . |
| 21 | Positivism particularly favours the indeterminate sentence : it is premature to decide at the time of sentence how long the offender should be detained for , since this may depend on how quickly the treatment works ; ideally therefore the release decision should be left in the hands of treatment experts to take at a later date . |
| 22 | It is useful to sit at the corner of a small table ( a card table is excellent ) whilst your discussion partner sits at the opposite comer — ensuring a one-to-one contact and leaving space between you . |
| 23 | It is useful to look at the spelling as a guide . |
| 24 | Because trustees are rarely dealt with specifically in the income tax code , it is critical to look at the appropriate taxing section ( eg TA 1988 , s15 in the case of Schedule A and s18 in the case of Schedule D ) in order to ascertain the particular liability in a given situation . |
| 25 | Before moving on to discuss the process of loss in relation to the death of someone close to us , it is helpful to look at a less significant but nevertheless important and unexpected loss and see our reaction there . |
| 26 | To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer . |
| 27 | Once all work on the system has been completed , then the ground must be tidied up and left in such a state that it is easy to assess at a later date what rabbits have been left behind . |
| 28 | It is easy to scoff at the movement — with its prizes for knitting and taffeta umbrellas , its hyperboles about the happy revolution to be accomplished by wheel ploughs , its scientific amateurism — as the naïve posturings of a minority engaged in a self-conscious crusade against the forces of routine and conservatism . |
| 29 | It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims . |
| 30 | Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site . |