Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the highest hill in an area would often be used , it was more important that this should have a distinctive shape or be prominent in relation to the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | These formulations are supplied in liquid form and are similar in texture to detergents although with a slightly acrid smell unless perfumed . |
| 3 | a set of capital letters which are smaller than standard and are equal in size to the lower case letters for that typesize . |
| 4 | Holden calls someone a ‘ phoney ’ if they behave in a superficial way , or if they value the wrong things , for example money and beauty , and are hypocritical in order to be accepted in society . |
| 5 | They are well made , using excellent quality wool , and are comparable in price to standard " Chinese-style " Chinese rugs . |
| 6 | One hundred million years ago was the Age of Dinosaurs : many would look grotesquely large , leathery and fearsome , and be recognizable as dinosaurs to us only because of our clever reconstructions from the fossil record undertaken since the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Microdiorite dykes that intersect the South Mountains detachment fault are highly brecciated and must therefore postdate ductile deformation ( 22 to 20Myr ) and be synkinematic with respect to brittle deformation ( 20 to 17Myr ) , 19 . |
| 8 | European economies were competitive , rather than complementary , in economic terms , and were all in debt to America . |
| 9 | The word grammar used in the ANLT is based on Gazdar 's GPSG model of syntactic features and is similar in structure to the sentence grammar . |
| 10 | The information presented on the next four pages is described under option 3.2.0 — Update SPR and is similar in format to figures 7.4 to 7.7 . |
| 11 | The information presented on the next four pages is described under option 4.2.0 — Update SSR and is similar in format to figures 8.4 and 8.7 . |
| 12 | It offers shops for everyday needs and is ideal for visits to the famed sights of Tuscany . |
| 13 | The march , the first ever organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ) , involved 2,500 protesters and was peaceful from start to finish . |
| 14 | It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers . |
| 15 | In commercial terms the EC accounted for over one-fifth of world trade and was comparable in importance to the USA and Japan . |
| 16 | To sum up : to some , uncertain , degree the needs of the elderly at any point in time are not fixed but are malleable in response to policy and environment mental changes . |
| 17 | Consider the following sentence : ( 21 ) Getting married and having a child is better than having a child and getting married Good arguments will be given in Chapter 3 to suggest that the word and of itself does not mean ( have the semantic content ) " and then " , but is neutral with respect to a temporal dimension . |
| 18 | Thus each unit is internally synchronous , but is asynchronous with respect to other units ; we therefore require synchronizing hardware at the interface between each pair of units . |
| 19 | R. Hamilton is resigning as treasurer but is eligible for re-election to the committee . |
| 20 | In terms of waste treatment , the above-ground reed-beds are the secondary system : their growth binds in some of the nutrients , but is subsidiary in importance to the waste-decomposing effect of the bacteria . |
| 21 | The pedestrian fatality rate in Great Britain ( 3.1 per 100,000 population ) is comparable to that of France and the GDR , but is high in comparison to other countries with similar populations and levels of traffic , such as Japan ( 2.9 ) and Italy ( 2.4 ) The Scandinavian countries are very much safer still and the Netherlands at 1.3 is more than twice as safe a place to walk as Great Britain . |
| 22 | I never opposed his will but was prompt in obedience to his orders . |