Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that , despite the way he first introduces the topic of personal identity , his detailed interest is not so much in what makes a person the same over time , but in the sense one has of oneself , one 's past deeds and actions , and the relation of this to questions of moral praise and blame . |
| 2 | Liberal Democrats will alter the licensing conditions for water companies to extend this to groups of domestic consumers who live on large estates and in sheltered housing complexes . |
| 3 | Fonts under windows 3.00 varied in quality as size changed so Microsoft put this to rights in the latest version of there graphical operating system . |
| 4 | Applying this to problems with p = 2 , we can arrange for w 1 = 1 so we have to solve LP ( 1 , w 2 ) . |
| 5 | Second , instead of continuing with the constitutional convention whereby the Prime Minister has the right to choose a government and a Cabinet , there is a concern to transfer this to Members of Parliament when Labour is in office , giving them the right to elect Cabinet ministers . |
| 6 | The line I use more often than not is 3lb b.s. , but I would not recommend this to anglers with no experience of long-range legering . |
| 7 | This effect is peculiar to regions of alternating AT since previous studies have shown that cleavage of isolated ApT sites in natural DNAs is poor [ 8-10 ] and we have shown that ApT sites are not cut within blocks of ( AAT ) n . |
| 8 | This conception , peculiar to individuals of low stature such as idiots , is , by the Materialists , elevated to the status of a ‘ system ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Such an omission was not peculiar to this particular school , I realise , nor is it peculiar to schools of its particular type . |
| 10 | Findings on one particular group are generalisable to individuals of other groups ; therefore , the findings on males are indicative of people in general . |
| 11 | Findings on one particular group are generalisable to individuals of other groups ; therefore , the findings on Euro-American middle-class women are indicative of women in general ; and |
| 12 | The mind that had conjured up those designs had to be brilliant — annoying , devious , prone to flights of fancy — but brilliant all the same . |
| 13 | This is especially important if your skin is prone to breakouts in the T-zone . |
| 14 | They were also mroe prone to feelings of incomplete evacuation ( 27% v 12% , p<0.025 ) . |
| 15 | While Moorat 's study shows that older patients are especially prone to accidents in a general hospital , Blake & Morfitt ( 1986 ) carried out a study in a residential home . |
| 16 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 17 | Experts say young travellers are especially prone to problems in far off places and in different cultures . |
| 18 | This short length of the female urethra , combined with the closeness of the vagina and anus , explains why women are so much more prone to infections of the bladder than are men . |
| 19 | It is unclear , however , why the columnarisation is prone to complications in some patients while remaining quiescent in others . |
| 20 | In performance , the first two are prone to bouts of noisy , head-splitting virtuosity , and Third mercilessly shows up those who fail to integrate this volatility into music of a more obviously poetic nature , and the Fourth is one of those elusive late pieces , whose rarefied world is closed to all but the most sensitive of artists . |
| 21 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 22 | Elizabeth of York — the eldest — was too prissy , she had decided , Cecily was a busybody , and Bridget , who was four , was prone to hiccups in the middle of the night ! |
| 23 | He added that people usually pale below the eyes and above the cheek bones , have many dreams including nightmares and hallucinations , suffer disturbed sleep especially at full moon , get up tired and listless , are prone to attacks of flu , and are driven to drink , drugs and heavy smoking . |
| 24 | If patients being treated with monoamine oxidase inhibitors ate quantities of cheese or other foods rich in these amines they were prone to attacks of high blood pressure , sometimes sufficient to precipitate strokes or heart failure . |
| 25 | However , yours is a very young tank and prone to rises in ammonia nitrite , which are killers for most marines . |
| 26 | Schumpeter is still prone to lapses into Paretian historical generalisation , but on the whole his methodological self-consciousness , though unobtrusive , ensures a constant and intellectually stimulating interaction between criticism and historical detail , between definition and reality . |
| 27 | But prone to lapses of memory after a binge … |
| 28 | Marius is an unstable but extremely powerful character who is prone to fits of rage . |
| 29 | MacTaggart and Mickels 's showpiece , Broom Estate in Newton Mearns , included bungalows with loggias , a word unfamiliar to Glaswegians in general , but obviously a bargain at the price . |
| 30 | Along one side of the square , more or less blown to pieces in the blitz , were neat blocks of council flats . |