Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The importance of empirical material from anthropological research , and from the analyst 's research work in therapeutic encounters , is not the relatively superficial one of seeking to explain the actions of people who act in ways which appear as strange and peculiar to the ordinary members of modern Western societies .
2 Such fissures were by no means peculiar to the middle classes of the Russian Empire : analogous divisions can be found throughout Europe .
3 While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application .
4 PHOTOGRAPHY NOW represents artists who function as artists , indeed , but also as cultural critics responsive to the new circumstances of the visual arts .
5 By lobbying local health officials and encouraging private institutions to reduce costs for patients with limited capacity to pay , CBHPs not only help people have access to the care they need but also make health professionals more aware of and responsive to the real needs of the poor .
6 It must , of course , be responsive to the strategic imperatives of both purchasers and central government , and this is reflected in the annual business plan submitted to purchasers for approval and funding .
7 Polar and grizzly bears are highly responsive to the vaginal scents of menstruating women , and they may even be a factor in bear attacks .
8 ‘ Moreover , the amount of the shift ’ , they conclude , ‘ appears to have been fairly responsive to the different phases of regional policy . ’
9 Between 1824 and 1830 , the Nez Perce switched their allegiance from the British to the growing bands of free-spirited American mountain men , who traded generously and treated the Indians as equals .
10 Claire Hunt , for instance , noted in 1988 of North Western brewers Robinsons that they ‘ appear on the whole to be fairly oblivious to the individual merits of their historic pubs . ’
11 Once outside , she stood uncertainly for a moment , oblivious to the curious glances of passers-by .
12 The casual labour problem was too sizeable to be solved by these means and it was unsuited to the temporary needs of unemployed skilled men .
13 This situation is analogous to the fluctuating regions of correlated spins found near the Curie-Weiss transition in ferromagnets .
14 The invisible powers of nature were analogous to the visible powers of the magnet , which could act at a distance and penetrate matter with its rays .
15 The carving , of superlative quality , shows two styles , analogous to the two styles on the Siphnian treasury though the difference here is less marked .
16 Radar and sonar were still highly classified developments in military technology , and the notion that bats might do anything even remotely analogous to the latest triumphs of electronic engineering struck most people as not only implausible but emotionally repugnant .
17 In addition the spread of the franchise necessitated an electorate able to evaluate political issues , preferably in a manner acceptable to the existing controllers of politics .
18 An alternative proposal presented by the Indonesian Foreign Minister to his hosts during a visit to Moscow in April 1984 went to the heart of the matter in suggesting a phased withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea and the establishment of a neutral Kampuchea acceptable to the Great Powers including the Soviet Union .
19 The order of subjects must be systematic and generally acceptable to the anticipated users of index or collection ; it should also facilitate effective browsing between related subjects .
20 The approach adopted by the Board and its parent bodies was both a response to the Crick recommendations and acceptable to the appropriate institutes for exemption and to the employers .
21 Evidence from a variety of trades , printing , coopering and shipbuilding among them , points to a degree of casualness quite foreign to the machine-dictated rhythms of factory production .
22 You see my visions for qualitative are slightly different to the four months at the moment , and I feel perhaps could exchange Q P16 for the control procedures to be a longer procedure but to have everything covering the project plan in progress monitoring through to quality control procedures for just the quality .
23 How different to the empty churches of today .
24 More important , if a trait is advantageous to an individual , it will become fixed in the species by selection , even if it is harmful to the long-term prospects of the species .
25 In Britain , Trebor has organized 230 production workers into unsupervised , self-organizing teams with degrees of autonomy and control similar to the high-performance teams at Digital .
26 Though evidently similar to the moral values of certain Greek philosophers , these virtues were considered typically Roman .
27 Checks of these items — rear registration plate lamps , fog lamps and hazard warning devices — will be similar to the existing checks of lamps .
28 Again , the male adults of certain danaids ingest material from withered Asclepiadaceae and Apocynaceae before mating and without this their pheromone systems are unable to function adequately to ensure successful mating ; the dihydropyrrolizidines in their odour is similar to the heterocyclic moieties of the plants ' pyrrolizidine alkaloids .
29 His birds are drawn in a style very similar to the engraved figures of his previous books , with the same intricate detail and self-conscious avoidance of any steeply curving strokes .
30 It was all becoming depressinglv similar to the mournful experiences of every Allied offensive on the Western Front .
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