Example sentences of "are [adv] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Back to basics , certainly , though anyone who imagines the ‘ basics ’ of forward play are any longer confined to scrum and line-out is wildly off the mark . |
| 32 | Toucans live in the forests of South and Central America and are more closely related to woodpeckers than to hornbills . |
| 33 | Another theory concerning the relationships of the Recent taxa suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes , implying that hagfishes are the most primitive of craniate animals ( Fig. 2B , a ) . |
| 34 | These similarities , together with several other less obvious features , suggest that cephalapsids are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to lampreys . |
| 35 | The new features that have been discovered by re-examining Recent taxa alongside the many new fossil finds during the past 15 years lead to classifications that suggest that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes . |
| 36 | B , a , This theory suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than to hagfishes ( agnathans are considered paraphyletic ) . |
| 37 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 38 | Secondly , in general courts are more favourably disposed to clauses which limit liability rather than those which completely exclude it ( Cf Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 and RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farm [ 1978 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 602 . ) |
| 39 | some examples of a concept are more typical than others , and are more easily brought to mind . |
| 40 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 41 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 42 | These signatures are more readily attributed to source regions within the continental lithosphere , and there are strong indications that it is often the mantle lithosphere that contributes isotopically ‘ enriched ’ ( low- 143 Nd/ 144 Nd ) material . |
| 43 | As a consequence , students are still not entitled to rebates , and the 20 per cent . |
| 44 | Says Lois : ‘ We are still virtually tied to Whitbreads . |
| 45 | Since union recognition and union density are both positively related to establishment size ( see Daniel/Millward , 1983 ) , we tested to see if the above results were sustained when size was controlled for . |
| 46 | Assumption 3 : Consumption ( C ) and saving ( S ) are both directly related to income ( Y ) . |
| 47 | Of the withdrawals , we have assumed that savings and imports are both directly related to income but that taxes are lump-sum taxes . |
| 48 | Household spending on consumption ( C ) and household saving ( S ) are both directly related to household after-tax income . |
| 49 | Numbers are also better suited to computer operations with the result that the process of searching the tree is made computationally simple . |
| 50 | Hayek points to the fact that many social institutions which are essential to the successful pursuit of our aims are the result of customs , habits , and practices which are not the product of design or invention and which , although they govern thought and action , are often not brought to consciousness . |
| 51 | Evidence from successful Japanese companies has suggested that production costs are often closely connected to management practices and operations , rather than the scale of operations within plants . |
| 52 | The activity holidays on offer are really best suited to groups . |
| 53 | This is regarded as a really good job showing that there are no real job opportunities for blacks as jobs are really only given to whites because of the racial prejudice in Maycomb . |
| 54 | Although expert determination would be entirely suitable , the tradition of the trade prefers arbitration and disputes of this sort are now generally referred to commodity arbitrations , discussed in 15.6.5 . |
| 55 | The move is Zurich 's response to structural changes in the insurance market which threaten a ruinous price war in the familiar ‘ off-the-shelf ’ products that are now widely sold to households and companies . |
| 56 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 57 | The top-security ‘ dispersal prisons ’ are frequently not filled to capacity , while overcrowding is concentrated in local prisons ( which predominantly house remand prisoners and those on short-term sentences ) . |
| 58 | Their long arms are particularly well adapted to life in trees . |
| 59 | Distraction displays are almost entirely confined to birds , but there are a few examples from elsewhere , notably in a fish called the bowfin . |
| 60 | The recipes in it ( there are over 100 ) are indeed ideally suited to students ; Sarah Freeman sensibly assumes a fairly restricted range of kitchen equipment , and the ingredients are all basic supermarket supplies . |