Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And before ‘ name and address supplied ’ asks , I was born and lived most of my life in the country ; I know that it is unnecessary to rip animals to pieces to preserve the balance of nature . |
| 2 | It is normal to request respondents to advertisements whether they telephone or write , to : |
| 3 | The RCN does not issue general guidance to those returning to nursing but is willing to offer advice to individuals if approached . |
| 4 | We need someone who enjoys working with figures and accounts , is prepared to give time to Executive and Finance meetings , and can liaise with the Society 's Officers . |
| 5 | Qaddafi himself , although he is prepared to naturalize immigrants to Libya , expresses strong reservations about states created largely by immigration . |
| 6 | But Kiwi cricket chief Peter McDermott is prepared to play host to England as an alternative to Gooch 's men spending the complete winter unemployed . |
| 7 | Objectively , it is quicker to give commands to Okapi , but there is a stage in the search procedure ( the merge ) which is sometimes faster on LIBERTAS . |
| 8 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 9 | Initially , the isolation is likely to make the horse overtly anxious ; but as time passes , its restlessness is likely to give way to depression . |
| 10 | Equipment should not be installed if it is likely to give rise to legionnaire 's disease . |
| 11 | Paragraph ( b ) , however , is likely to give rise to difficulty with its concept of ‘ abnormal ’ characteristics , if only because it may be so difficult to determine the ‘ normal ’ characteristics of a species . |
| 12 | The espousal of informalism as the answer to critiques of the effectiveness of judicial methods of handling family disputes is likely to give rise to disappointment . |
| 13 | And striker Geoff Ferris is likely to put pen to paper for 12 months . |
| 14 | It is imperative to meet face to face with the client and to visit the company to be valued to get a ‘ feel ’ for the business . |
| 15 | ‘ Though it is hard to feel gratitude to fate , at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | Despite these kinds of market issues , Microsoft is unlikely to allow developers to add-value for them by tinkering with NT operating system code ‘ but it may have to change this model to win the high-end , ’ warns Schuster . |
| 17 | It has suggested that in the study of social policy it is important to give attention to implementation problems that arise directly from the characteristics of policy , but to recognize also that there is a complicated interrelationship between these and a range of inter- and intra-organizational factors . |
| 18 | ‘ It is important to report cash to shareholders , and it is increasingly being recognised , through FRS 1 and so on , that the main financial statement should be cash flow . |
| 19 | Within the home environment too , training is important to prevent damage to furniture and soiling of carpets , for example . |
| 20 | He is able to talk man to man with the Chartist delegates , in the confidence that his family has worked through many generations for the common good — building churches and bridges , making roads , digging mines , planting trees , and draining marshland . |
| 21 | Placement may assist in pulling together the framework and coherent objectives for partnerships ; can explore how other organisations may be used ; is able to secure commitment to growth by partners through direct experience of one another ; establishes communications between the various partners ; may be used to identify who should be involved and at what levels ; provides a regular data and information flow through its exchange mechanism ; may indicate for the local area the support available from national employers that may be utilised at the local level ; constructs environments where introductions are purposeful between the partners and can adopt an incremental approach to partnership activity . |
| 22 | The Official Solicitor is available to give advice to guardians ad litem involved in High Court proceedings and may be asked by the court to instruct counsel to appear as amicus curiae in any proceedings under the Act which give rise to an issue of general public importance . |
| 23 | The crime short story is perhaps the most difficult branch of crime fiction to write , except in the mere matter of the number of times it is necessary to put finger to typewriter key . |
| 24 | But very few of those outlets could offer the consistent availability of parts which is necessary to improve service to customers . |
| 25 | Consequently , if it is necessary to redeploy employees to posts which are graded at a lower salary than the employees original posts , the contractual earnings of such employees will be protected . |
| 26 | A VOICE synthesiser aboard a British educational satellite is ready to send messages to schools , engineers at the University of Surrey announced this week . |