Example sentences of "[adj] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To an anthropologist , the conscious creation of a culture by management is amusing , because all human groups have culture by nature , and these systems of values and beliefs are shaped by experience , tradition , class position , and political circumstances — all powerful forces that are extremely refractory to directed change , particularly by occasional committee . |
| 2 | Patients with ‘ non-ulcer dyspepsia ’ who seem refractory to all treatments might be assessed in this way to ensure they do not have a gross disorder of gastric emptying , but the likelihood that the result will advance clinical management seems small . |
| 3 | Pouchitis usually responds well to treatment with antibiotics , but in a small subset of cases the inflammation is clinically severe , endoscopically atypical , and relatively refractory to conventional treatment . |
| 4 | Patients with complex partial epilepsy refractory to medical treatment , and who had been assessed for epilepsy surgery , were studied between April , 1989 and October , 1992 . |
| 5 | Although there are several possible explanations for these findings as reviewed by Skaer ( 1981 ) , it is possible that some α-granules may remain refractory to secretory stimuli . |
| 6 | You 'll be faster , less bothersome to other parties , and wo n't spend the whole climb in mortal fear of tripping up on your own rope ! |
| 7 | They were so horrendous to each other . |
| 8 | Physical examples include equipment designed to make components that will fit into the product of only one buyer ( for example , exhausts for Rolls-Royce cars ) or dispensing machines that can handle packsizes peculiar to one supplier . |
| 9 | This will take place in five stages : — orientation interviews , to select the texts and to establish the communicative context ; — initial analysis of texts which will focus on linguistic features likely to indicate relations between disciplines ; — directed interviews with the participants which will allow them to comment on the details of the analysis ; — comparison of texts from different locations and situations to show if a pattern of features is merely peculiar to one writer or if it may have general social significance . |
| 10 | The few useful studies that exist usually include factors that might be peculiar to one country , or society . |
| 11 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 12 | Communal life survived until the beginning of the nineteenth century and traditions peculiar to that way of life had lingered into the present . |
| 13 | This type of survey was first developed seriously in the United States , and its importance can similarly be traced to economic and social factors peculiar to that country at a particular stage in its history . |
| 14 | The British ‘ aristocracy of labour ’ , a stratum peculiar to that country where the class of independent small producers , shopkeepers , etc. , was relatively insignificant , as was the lower middle class of white-collar workers and minor bureaucrats , helped to turn the Liberal Party into a party with genuine mass appeal . |
| 15 | Yet Leslie was a Nonjuror and a Jacobite , and this way of thinking was peculiar to that group . |
| 16 | A smell peculiar to that place assailed his nostrils with its pungency . |
| 17 | And techniques that are peculiar to that job . |
| 18 | The general increase in demand is misread by all of our hypothetical islanders : it is perceived on each island as an isolated ( forgive the pun ) , specific phenomenon peculiar to that island . |
| 19 | It will be of value to itemise those aspects peculiar to that situation , and for convenience I divide them into ‘ helps ’ and ‘ hindrances ’ : |
| 20 | According to Marshall , when supply exceeded demand in any market , the forces of competition would exert downward pressure on the price peculiar to that market . |
| 21 | Of course , it may be objected that the very notion of an ‘ art-object ’ is a cultural construct peculiar to certain traditions , but that notion is so deeply embedded in Western culture that it is difficult to dismiss it . |
| 22 | Adoption can be seen as the logical answer to infertility , but as Brebner et al ( 1985 ) point out , if medical investigations/treatment for infertility fail and are performed without adequate psychological support , the subsequent depression and disappointment can cause couples to jump at adoption without recognising those aspects of parenthood which are peculiar to adoptive parenthood , which include : having to be assessed and monitored ; absence of pregnancy and birth ; becoming attached to a child born to someone else ; having to tell the child he or she is adopted . |
| 23 | Despite this reassuring message from history that disruptive behaviour is not an event peculiar to contemporary education and recent evidence that there has been no dramatic increase in such behaviour , it has to be acknowledged that anxiety about disruptive behaviour has increased . |
| 24 | One feature that is peculiar to criminal justice agencies in England and Wales is the extent to which they are encouraged to exercise discretion under conditions of low visibility and subject to minimal restraint on the part of other bodies . |
| 25 | Moscovici uses the concept in a particular sense when he argues that social representations are peculiar to modern societies , for they are a ‘ specifically modern social phenomenon ’ ( 1984 : 952–3 ) . |
| 26 | This marking-out to get an impression of the finished feature is not peculiar to concrete pools , for it will be realized that any pool made with a material that the gardener can mould to suit his whim can be assessed this way before excavations begin . |
| 27 | The cynical reader will suggest that these tactics are not peculiar to developing countries . |
| 28 | Thus , the abstract ‘ idea ’ of ‘ man ’ , what Locke calls a nominal essence , differs from that of ‘ Peter ’ and ‘ Paul ’ 'in the leaving out something , that is peculiar to each individual ; and retaining so much of those particular complex ideas , of several particular existences , as they are found to agree in . ’ |
| 29 | The actual rates of operation of the processes of precipitation , interception , evaporation , transpiration , overland flow , throughflow and groundwater flow depend upon climatic , vegetative , pedological , topographic and geological conditions peculiar to each drainage basin . |
| 30 | The curricular answers to such questions must involve some analysis of the knowledge , skills and norms peculiar to each profession . |