Example sentences of "[adj] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reminders of all the matters to be dealt with on behalf of a buyer before completion are itemised on the pre-completion agenda ( p226 ) with any items added that are peculiar to a particular transaction . |
| 2 | It requires special gifts of insight and patience to move from a mono-cultural to a cross-cultural perspective . |
| 3 | Others , like the noxious Eurasian water milfoil ( Myriophyllum spp ) enjoy anything from freshwater to a brackish cocktail of 33 per cent sea water . |
| 4 | Let's say I was prone to a certain amount of raffishness which would have been frowned upon by my more sober colleagues . |
| 5 | Obsession is easily diverted , and an all-consuming passion for your lover can shift almost transparently to one for your child , making your partner vaguely uneasy and prone to a curious sense of loss . |
| 6 | Some plants are prone to a particular disease or pest : . |
| 7 | As a result both were prone to a disastrous application of metaphysical cultural values to political analysis — in the case of Chesterton and his role as a drama critic and provincial journalist in the 1920s , to a vision of cultural despair based on a parallel theory of criticism to that of his friend the Shakespearian scholar , G. Wilson Knight . |
| 8 | Amis 's novels have always been full of opinions , and have , I think , become prone to a marked ambiguity of effect , especially with regard to questions of gender and race . |
| 9 | As yet unfamiliar to a British audience , they are Darren Largo from this country , and two German sculptors , Werner Haypeter and Gloria Friedman , who lives near Dijon and has been the subject of a recent exhibition at the Moderne Kunst Museum in Vienna . |
| 10 | John Marscal went weekly to a local market ; few medieval peasants were as bound to their immediate localities as we were once taught . |
| 11 | During the last year , two-thirds had remained faithful to a single partner . |
| 12 | Because of these difficulties artificial bile solutions have been prepared to a total ionic strength of 0.295 mmol/l . |
| 13 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |
| 14 | Yes : ‘ I wonder if it might not be helpful to make clear to a lay reader what precisely the connection was between Socrates and Plato . ’ |
| 15 | It said : ‘ The words of the song are sufficiently clear to a large number of the audience . ’ |
| 16 | However we achieve it , great care must be taken to make the exposition clear to a non-technical audience . |
| 17 | Erm a lot of cl closed questions but that 's unavoidable to a certain extent with this part of the C C Q , however you did n't ask about whether there are any other family locally or otherwise |
| 18 | The human organism is highly responsive to a wide spectrum of electro-magnetic ( EM ) influences ; in fact we are essentially an electro-vibratory entity immersed in an EM environment , our body 's molecular or chemical reactions being indelibly interrelated to these EM influences . |
| 19 | The business domination variant regards the state as responsive to a cohesive property-based class of capitalists because it is literally staffed by capitalists or closely associated social groups , especially in the key ( executive and judicial ) decision-making sites ( Domhoff , 1967 , 1976 , 1970 , 1978b ) . |
| 20 | Given that constitutional proprieties hampered Victoria , the Emperor thought that a less restricted monarch might be more responsive to a diplomatic initiative . |
| 21 | Even so , Strange still sees the issue in macro terms — as something which would be responsive to a general alteration in policy . |
| 22 | Irrespective of what maintains the size of the total peripheral T-cell pool , mechanisms that maintain a T-lymphocyte clone in cell division , and concomitantly expressing CD45R0 , are likely to be the most important factors determining the frequency of T lymphocytes responsive to a given recall antigen . |
| 23 | For instance , there could be a steady reduction in the amount of transmitter released by the presynaptic cell , or a modification of the receptors on the postsynaptic side to make them less responsive to a given amount of transmitter released , or both mechanisms could be operating . |
| 24 | In Figure 11 I show the kind of wiring diagram that would make a single cell responsive to a particular kind of edge , with a particular orientation . |
| 25 | Masha : ‘ It 's perfectly possible for a woman to be responsive to a sexual advance and yet feel she has been compelled . |
| 26 | Free to a Good Home |
| 27 | How well no it was free to a good home it was please take it . |
| 28 | You have taught me to forget myself by demeaning yourself to be free to a poor servant . |
| 29 | Were this not the case , the buy-in would be tax free to a corporate shareholder because , by virtue of s208 , the corporate shareholder would not be liable to corporation tax on the distribution , unless it is taken into account in the shareholder 's capital gains tax computation ( the latter not being precluded by s208 ) . |
| 30 | In the past the officer was free to a considerable extent to exercise his discretion as he pleased . |