Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |
| 2 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 3 | This variation seemed to be due both to the severity of the impairment and to personality factors ; it would therefore be simplistic and unwise to make generalisations based entirely on impairment . |
| 4 | Group formation may be due here to the collaboration of males in defence against rivals , so that male relationships become the main factor influencing the dispersion of females . |
| 5 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
| 6 | These changes in the participation rates of the elderly must be due either to a reduction in the demand for the labour of this section of the population , or a reduction in the labour services offered or supplied by the elderly , or some combination of the two . |
| 7 | An increase in the number of veins may be due either to an increase in the number of branches of a principal vein , or to the development of secondary longitudinal veins , between preexisting veins . |
| 8 | This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals . |
| 9 | This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization . |
| 10 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 11 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 12 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 13 | Rent which continues to be payable either to the Policyholder or by the Policyholder while the Policyholder 's home is uninhabitable as a result of destruction or damage caused by an insured peril . |
| 14 | The cuts would be noticeable only to the expert onlooker and there was certainly ‘ no cause for alarm ’ , he said . |
| 15 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 16 | Interestingly , under these conditions A has an effect on certain quantum-mechanical phenomena.t It would be unfair both to the vector potential and to quantum mechanics to say that none of those formulations have engineering applications ( in fact the most sensitive magnetometer built to date is based on that kind of theory ) , but by and large engineers would n't lose much sleep if the use of A were banned with immediate effect . |
| 17 | There 's only one source that can give you the answer and it might be pointed our that their refusal to divulge this information might put the whole future of NATO at risk and that the individual ultimately responsible for the negative decision would be answerable directly to the president of the United States . |
| 18 | I do n't insist what I 've done has to be important forever to the theatre . |
| 19 | In your appointment as Director-General of the Security Service you will be responsible personally to the Home Secretary . |
| 20 | If a holder , nonetheless , transfers his private key , the carrier will be responsible only to the party to whom it issued the last valid private key . |
| 21 | This interpretation should be common both to the Service and to the Evidence Convention . |
| 22 | Children , in growing up and being socialized , are made to give up much that is pleasurable — not least , some of their individuality — for the sake of principles which are not always made clear to them , or may be obscure even to the person demanding obedience . |
| 23 | Yet this ‘ black and white ’ approach is not enough and he goes further : each text , Asheim argues , should be assessed as a whole — to do otherwise would be fair neither to the book nor to the author . |
| 24 | And in build , and in age , yes , striding along to get out of the rain the sooner , he might well be close enough to the shape Aldhelm would present , to an assassin waiting . |
| 25 | They are supplemented by several recent fibreglass and steel sculptures of large scale and a dozen smaller figurative or architectural works in bronze which will be recognisable only to an audience which has tracked King 's later development at the Mayor Rowan gallery . |
| 26 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 27 | His encyclical Mediator Dei , published on 20 December 1947 , was the first one in the history of such documents to be devoted exclusively to the liturgy . |
| 28 | Section 52 agreements can be advantageous both to the developer and the local authority , but there is a drawback in that if one of the parties , usually the developer or his successor in title , wish to alter the agreement , then in the absence of consensus , the only way is by application to the Lands Tribunal under s.84 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |