Example sentences of "[adj] to [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter is about determining the norms of usage that characterize real speech communities and about the relevance of this to determining the direction of change within the communities . |
| 2 | What is the relevance of all this to understanding the nature of left hemisphere speech specialisation ? |
| 3 | She is wary of platitudes and would never use the magazine phrase ‘ biological clock ’ but , like Captain Hook , she is prone to hearing a fateful ticking . |
| 4 | Prone to throwing the stage into complete darkness , he then allowed a single candle , or dancing firelight , to illuminate his face , while the stage manager cast a white calcium beam on the actor 's head . |
| 5 | Nowadays his mistakes are fewer , though Patsy reveals he is prone to hiding a few under the bed . |
| 6 | The figures may be particularly prone to underestimating the income of the highest earners , who have more opportunities to hide substantial amounts of income than middle and lower income groups . |
| 7 | Our way now should be clear to accepting the propriety of applying these principles to the modern-day working environment , calling the slaves , workers and the masters , bosses . |
| 8 | He feels searing anger , not constructive , not realistic , not tolerant ; no way clear to seeing the other point of view . |
| 9 | The sudden increase in staff from outside the prison culture may have resulted in there being more guards who themselves use marijuana in a limited recreational way , and who may not be averse to sharing a few joints with their charges . |
| 10 | ‘ It reaches more people than other media too , ’ she suggested , never averse to singing the praises of radio . |
| 11 | Charles the Cheesemonger was not averse to using the parish church to record the existence of his children , but on this occasion he may have been under more pressure than usual from the Anglican minister to arrange this triple baptism . |
| 12 | The situation has been further complicated by the constant interchange of religious , cultural and decorative ideas ; in common with other artists , the makers of oriental rugs are not averse to adopting a design , or incorporating its most attractive elements into their own compositions , simply because it appeals to their aesthetic tastes . |
| 13 | They are quite happy to question you , though , and are not averse to having a look through your personal items when your back is turned . |
| 14 | Chapman himself was not averse to playing a trick or two on his lively player , like the time he arranged a winter ‘ cruise ’ for him . |
| 15 | This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame . |
| 16 | By instinct , the Americans are geared to winning , the British to playing the game . |
| 17 | For instance , a certain amount is allocated for the storage of stitch patterns A , B , C , or whatever , some to running the Form section , some to the technique and so on . |
| 18 | First of all there is the project document of which the format and content are so often quite unsuited to tackling the formidable tasks required for a successful conservation programme . |
| 19 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 20 | What this model suggests is that the acquisition of complex behaviour is analogous to constructing a wall , a process of building up a structure brick by brick . |
| 21 | Administering the remedies in this way allows the body to process each remedy individually , a situation analogous to presenting a computer with only one program at a time . |
| 22 | ‘ Literary sensibility ’ is easier to recognize than to define , but it is analogous to having an unusually good ear for music , and has something in common with the creative faculty , even when the critic who possesses it is not an imaginative writer . |
| 23 | In his usual thrusting manner , he fought inside McLaren to get the engine put to use as soon as possible , knowing full well that engine development on a bench or in testing is very different to developing an engine that will be competitive under the stress of FI racing . |
| 24 | And then they would come from North Ronaldsay and that to the different to working the harvest again . |
| 25 | Being willing to talk after your board agrees to sell you is different to requesting a move . |
| 26 | The effect is similar to dressing a tall man in a pinstripe suit — it simply accentuates the length ! |
| 27 | Watching a buzzard in flight is very similar to watching a glider — it just seems to float effortlessly . |
| 28 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 29 | It is similar to reprogramming a computer , with the remedies being the program . |
| 30 | Recovering it afterwards can also be similar to collecting an unsecured loan . |