Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sort of economic approach to law is to be adopted in our attempt to establish the merits , or otherwise , of the Chinese Wall ? |
| 2 | Dawson 's Religion and Culture stressing Tylor 's importance and relating theories of primitive religion to Christianity was selected by Eliot as one of his ‘ Books of the Year ’ in 1950 . |
| 3 | The study of hospital patients by Ferguson and MacPheal concluded as follows : ‘ The ex-patients who showed the heaviest mortality at early ages , the strongest tendency to relapse and the poorest record in point of early return to work were the group of unskilled labourers . ’ |
| 4 | Effects of stray capacitance to earth are removed by earthing B , C or D. Off balance , the currents in the coils are no longer equal and a large inductive reactance appears between B and C and between C and D so that the balance condition of the bridge is critical and the bridge consequently sensitive . |
| 5 | ‘ In public health terms , therefore , the effect of domestic exposure to radon is not a major cause of cancer , ’ the report concludes . |
| 6 | At Canberra the ratio of black children to white was about even , so there was no way that I felt out of place or different . |
| 7 | The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue . |
| 8 | The general question of Unionist attitudes to Labour was highlighted at the Special Party Conference in 1917 where Law came under a strong attack . |
| 9 | The fact that Keynes had severe reservations , occasionally bordering on outright hostility , towards the applicability of econometric methods to macroeconomics was swept to one side . |
| 10 | Land-use and the vulnerability of sloping terrain to erosion are , however , not the only causes of environmental degradation . |
| 11 | Erm I think you can see that the problem with this kind of biographical approach to history is it can degenerate into trivia . |
| 12 | Between 1 per cent and 5 per cent of paediatric admissions to hospital are showing failure to thrive ( Berwick et al . |
| 13 | The force of religious antagonism to slavery was maintained as part of the basis of the antislavery appeal at the level of the national Anti-Slavery Society , at the international conventions of the early 1840s and through local associations as they multiplied after 1823 . |
| 14 | The pretreatment characteristics of patients in the two groups were similar ( table I ) , although the median time from original diagnosis of colorectal cancer to entry was slightly longer for patients with chemotherapy ( 8.5 ( range 0 to 61 ) months ) than for those who received supportive care alone ( 5.5 ( 0 to 22 ) months ) . |
| 15 | The criteria for partial response to treatment were : a decrease in serum HBeAg of 50% or more of the initial level or serum HBV-DNA negativity with sustained HBeAg positivity after 24 weeks of follow up . |
| 16 | A much more advanced treatment of the Earth 's interior with particular reference to isostasy is to be found in the conference proceedings edited by Morner ( 1980 ) . |
| 17 | Given the Treasury 's computation that every 4% of devaluation is equivalent to 1% reduction in interest rates , it follows that monetary relaxation from Black Wednesday to date is already in excess of 4% . |
| 18 | The lexical shift from immediate perception to inference is perhaps most obvious with the verb feel : with the to infinitive , as in ( 40 ) above , this verb is practically the equivalent of think . |
| 19 | A drop in status from paid work to housework is likely to be associated with dissatisfaction in both social classes , and a simple enjoyment of the rewards of an outside job is also , for both middle- and working-class women , a bad omen from the viewpoint of housework satisfaction . |
| 20 | Guidelines for centres on alternative routes to certification was also published in the last year and provides centres with advice on how to get the best out of the highly flexible assessment and certification system which SCOTVEC offers . |
| 21 | The highest values for oesophageal exposure to acid were found during the postprandial periods ( Table II ) . |
| 22 | However , the need for whole-school approaches to management is only part of the problem . |
| 23 | Today , it is accepted that the prevention of ostertagiasis by limiting exposure to infection is a more efficient method of control . |