Example sentences of "[adj] to [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 2 | She is prone to pointing out to journalists that she has ugly hands ( her assessment ) , says she grew up thinking she was plain and now is so embarrassed by her appearance on screen that she never sees her films unless she 's forced to . |
| 3 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 4 | These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness . |
| 5 | Some colours , particularly shades of red , are prone to fading so it is important to use the right products . |
| 6 | He says , philosophically , that ‘ those engines were prone to signing off even when they were is service ’ , but somehow this was all a bit personal . |
| 7 | He was still prone to falling head-over-heels in love with young men , and through his friend , Paul Holmes , who taught painting at Kingston , he met Peter Date , a student at Sutton Art School . |
| 8 | Acrylic primed canvas boards are prone to warping even in normal atmospheres . |
| 9 | They are crude and narrow compared to the Dwarf mines of the other mountain chains and prone to collapsing unexpectedly . |
| 10 | I have n't been referred to a rheumatologist , as I 've been told that I 'm very young and prone to worrying too much about becoming disabled . |
| 11 | Now this practice is prone to appearing always and automatically correct . |
| 12 | I 've experimented with guns , of course , both mere projectile weapons and mortars which would lob the sling-bombs , but they have all been clumsy , dangerous , slow and rather prone to blowing up . |
| 13 | Portable and hardy it was , but slow and prone to blowing up telephone exchanges , because it was American and not approved for use in the UK . |
| 14 | Dorcas does n't believe in you , and I certainly do n't believe in you , but if you could just see your way clear to existing just long enough for us to find them , we 'd all appreciate it very much . |
| 15 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 16 | But this article was written in a different era : a time before doorstepping and telephoto journalism had really got into its stride ; a more innocent age when the phrase ‘ royal scoop ’ indicated the saccharine nursery revelations of a former nanny , and people who ‘ knew ’ were n't averse to ringing up William Hickey or Dempster . |
| 17 | And are n't averse to using fairly unpleasant methods to er to get the money back if you begin to default on payments . |
| 18 | I was sympathetic towards the subject and not averse to carrying out some research in that field if the opportunity arose but had no intention of studying it myself . |
| 19 | This is analogous to wandering around in a misty marsh in a river valley surrounded by invisible summits . |
| 20 | Currently , one of the rather loosely applied definitive differences between plant and animal life is that plants can be propagated in either of two ways , sexually by means of seed , which involves male and female contributions from different plants or from different parts of the same plant , or asexually ( vegetatively ) by means of cutting and layering , which is analogous to cutting off an arm or a leg and growing an entirely new individual from such a part into a whole new body . |
| 21 | The acceleration is sensational and very similar to taking off in a piston-engined aircraft with open cockpit . |
| 22 | Somewhat surprisingly , the consequences of sleeping longer than usual are similar to sleeping less , so far as performance decrements are concerned . |
| 23 | Such embryonic creatures needed stronger muscles , too , and a skin that was resistant to drying out . |
| 24 | Nobody should be subject to bouncing over humps in heavy vehicles which do not possess the suspension of a motor car , be it passenger or driver . |
| 25 | Each of the parties further recognises that , by reason of my acting in such capacity , I will , in performing my duties hereunder ( but subject to doing so honestly and in good faith ) , be immune from all actions and proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in connection with my appointment hereunder . |
| 26 | 2.3 If the Landlord is unable to obtain at a reasonable cost any of the materials referred to in the Building Documents the Landlord may [ ( subject to notifying promptly the Surveyors of its intention to do so ) ] in carrying out the Works substitute for them alternative materials as nearly as may be of the same quality |
| 27 | There have been isolated reports indicating that spontaneous contractions unrelated to swallowing occasionally occur in the human oesophagus , particularly during phases 2 and 3 of the migrating motor complex . |
| 28 | The process is consequently one more akin to topping up the various activity boxes with water , with flows being initiated from one to another once selected levels have been achieved . |
| 29 | Entering the old house , she found , was akin to coming home . |
| 30 | British Rail themselves , the guardians of this heritage , gave a blockbusting philistine lead by demolishing the Euston Arch , an act somewhat akin to tearing down Salisbury Cathedral or Windsor Castle . |