Example sentences of "is [adj] to [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he is used to painting large canvases , a huge blank wall was not a problem . |
| 2 | This can be especially true if you are a woman who is unused to making sexual demands , or if you are already in a long-term relationship when you begin to ask for safer sex . |
| 3 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there are others who take the opposing position , that biological evidence is irrelevant to understanding psychological processes . |
| 5 | Like the thought of Schleiermacher , Liberal Theology has its own coherence , attractiveness and plausibility ; but it too is open to damaging critical questions from several angles . |