Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 2 | But you are so used to an unquestioned independence that you forget how many people do n't have it , people who , in human terms , Christian terms even , have just as much right to it as you do . |
| 3 | The company 's hotels are run as autonomous units , and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent . |
| 4 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 5 | When cleaned , non-ferrous metals are best brought to a bright finish before priming with zinc chromate or zinc phosphate . |
| 6 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 7 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 8 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 9 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 10 | Challis draws a distinction between geographical decentralisation and resource decentralisation where ‘ decisions over the precise allocation of resources are formally pushed to a lower level than is usual , at times to the individual field worker , to ensure more appropriate allocation of resources ’ . |
| 11 | But they are usually tied to a particular building society or insurance company and so will only arrange loans with them . |
| 12 | Such networks are inevitably built up on a regional basis because the finds are usually confined to a limited geographical region . |
| 13 | This last can be prevented by modern orthopaedic treatment , but , unfortunately , many patients are still referred to a suitable orthopaedic clinic too late . |
| 14 | Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it . |
| 15 | We will suggest that these functions are still performed to an impressive and significant degree . |
| 16 | They are also sent to a second system , called the Kmart Information Network ( KIN ) . |
| 17 | The detection boxes mentioned above are also linked to a stand-alone personal computer , loaded with with Granada 's own Fixed Site Management System software . |
| 18 | Today we see that women who have the right qualities can exercise authority equally with men , but we are also coming to a fresh recognition that Christian leadership should always be seen as service . |
| 19 | Chestnut is still in demand for fencing , although the trees are often grown to a greater girth , and hornbeam is now little used . |
| 20 | These principles are often applied to a given context ; however , the works are not rooted in a priori ideas or theoretical propositions . |
| 21 | In investigations of cerebral asymmetry , therefore , electrode leads from various positions over left and right hemispheres are often linked to a common reference site at which underlying activity is unlikely to be affected by variables manipulated in the experiment . |
| 22 | When we speak of the electronic office we are now referring to an administrative system based largely on computers , word processors and associated communication devices . |
| 23 | Police are now talking to a 30 year old friend of the family , who 's up a tree in the nearby woods , threatening to jump off a branch with a rope round his neck . |
| 24 | ‘ We are now committed to a permanent merry-go-round for the European Parliament at a huge cost in terms of cash and efficiency , ’ said Mr Peter Price , Euro MP for London South-East . |
| 25 | Such observations have given rise to the notion of the ‘ invulnerable child ’ and are now leading to a radical re-appraisal of the results of risk research , with a shift of emphasis towards trying to understand the factors that enable some individuals to survive , or even profit from , their disposition to insanity . |
| 26 | Personally I am strongly committed to a primitive Christianity , but I know that I can not return to the total world-view of the primitive church . |
| 27 | For as the recession bites harder , people are increasingly looking to a rousing chorus line as a way to beat the blues . |
| 28 | Poisonings of birds of prey are expected to decline , however , as landowners are increasingly turning to a new kind of trap which does not use poison bait . |
| 29 | Some relate to its administrative and policy models , which derive from Britain but are here applied to a Chinese population . |
| 30 | I am irresistibly drawn to a magnetic puff of amnesia . |