Example sentences of "to be [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formula on offer by the company last night is said to be similar to the rejected package but with slightly better redundancy terms . |
| 2 | The prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia in diabetics has been reported to be similar to the non-diabetic population , that is from 8 per cent to as high as 52 per cent ( Hayes , 1972 ) . |
| 3 | There is no neurophysiological model of the kind of convergence that would seem to be necessary for the many different sensations of the moment to be brought into synthetic unity , without loss of their individual distinctiveness and specificity , into the instantaneous sense of ‘ being here ’ ; or of the manner in which experience of many different moments can be synthesized into a sense of continuing self without those moments losing their separateness in memory . |
| 4 | It will require some things that are going to be necessary for the statutory and voluntary sectors in any case and it will mean drawing the private sector in , like a common assessment policy for all long term care . |
| 5 | For example , a term prohibiting making a back-up copy in a pre-1993 agreement will not be made invalid by reason of the changes brought about by the regulations even if the making of a back-up copy is deemed to be necessary to the lawful use of the program . |
| 6 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 7 | ( 12 ) The scheme will be expressed to be conditional on the usual conditions ( see paras 11.3.2 and 11.3.3 below ) appropriately modified including inter alia the passing of any necessary resolutions by the bidder . |
| 8 | Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months . |
| 9 | A repetition this year would mean a fine of £6600 , which is why , on the surface , the Board has every justification to be pleased with the new scale of fines . |
| 10 | M67 is in the field with Alpha ( 4.2 ) ; it is said to be visible with the naked eye , but I have never been able to confirm this , though with binoculars it is very easy indeed . |
| 11 | Then we may write unc and D has the same degeneracy as C. The matrix unc will in general be fully populated ; if it is appropriately partitioned , we may write ( 18 ) as unc To be conformable with the first and last matrices in the triple product , unc must have — p rows and n — q columns . |
| 12 | For organisations like the Runnymede Trust , it is crucial to be alert to the various fronts upon which racism appears , and offer whatever support we can to those who want to challenge it . |
| 13 | With both , it is important to keep an open mind and to be alert to the various clues and pointers to meaning that appear as the communication unfolds . |
| 14 | A successful application of the described in situ methylation-protection assay is illustrated in Figure 1 , where probing of the Jun-DNA interaction detected one strong and two weaker protection positions ( in the core and the borders of the AP-1-binding site , respectively ) whose methylation has been previously shown by interference analysis to be destructive to the same extent for complex formation ( 6 ) . |
| 15 | The words " corrupt public morals " suggest conduct which a jury might find to be destructive of the very fabric of society . " |
| 16 | He/she must walk a tightrope too : interpret a tentative remark too directly and you may sound rude — but reproducing it too closely to the original may sound so tentative as to be confusing in the other language . |
| 17 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 18 | By the time the timpani signalled a perky rapprochement of the Chichester Psalms and the Young Person 's Guide , having long ago left Berg behind , there was every reason to be grateful for the consistent vigour of the solo writing and to admire Zukerman 's unstinted flair in putting it across . |
| 19 | It was North who , by his own account , rushed into Reagan 's television room during the evacuation of American students from Grenada in 1983 , desperate that the students might forget ( on network television ) to be grateful for the American invasion that had freed them ; when the first student said ‘ Thank God for America ’ , Reagan hugged him , and told him he ought to have faith . |
| 20 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 21 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 22 | The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments ’ to be familiar with the lower storeys . |
| 23 | Unlike conference interpreters who usually have advance warning of their assignments , community interpreters have to be able to work without having time to prepare and have to be familiar with the specialised contexts . |
| 24 | It is important to carry out some experimentation with various objectives and objective-eyepiece combinations so as to be familiar with the optical properties of the microscope system in use . |
| 25 | Bouton ( e.g. 1988 , 1990 ) has argued against this summation notion , pointing out that in his own experiments the size of the CR seems to be uninfluenced by the associative value of background cues . |
| 26 | Since he was inclined to be dyspeptic at the best of times , no one was greatly surprised , unless perhaps at the severity of this attack . |
| 27 | However , in order to be successful in the long term , you need to learn how to change your eating habits permanently , to suit your own body . |
| 28 | For a scheme to be successful in the long term it is vital that there should be an organizational structure to support it . |
| 29 | It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) . |
| 30 | Kelly chose not to be specific over the precise areas for concern other than to point to bad results . |