Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We regularly get complaints about drugs but it is mostly due to publicity from drug raves in the rest of the UK , ’ he said . |
| 2 | A simple and popular bridge that exhibits frequency-dependent balance conditions and is widely used to measure the frequencies of sources is the Wien bridge shown in figure 7.9(a) comprising just resistors and capacitors . |
| 3 | The band 's chief songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald described it as their most outstanding to date . |
| 4 | Thus crime would be prevented by modifying those who can be modified , segregating those who can not be so modified , correcting in advance of crime those who are proved to be most likely to commit crime , and attacking and eliminating the social situations which are most conducive to crime ( ibid. , p. 608 ) . |
| 5 | However , Sutherland and Cressey do go on to include a consideration of poverty , unemployment , bad housing , and the like , under the heading of ‘ social situations which are most conducive to crime ’ . |
| 6 | A careful scrutiny of existing policies and their implicit and explicit assumptions should do two things ; it should enable choices to be made at the level of general strategies , as to what is most conducive to equity or equality , it should also enable individual teachers in individual schools to compare their circumstances with those of others and learn which innovations seem to suit what circumstances and to take heart from the struggles and successes of their colleagues . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , these authors do list those characteristics of the ‘ strike setting ’ which they consider most conducive to violence ( Thieblot and Haggard , 1983:10–11 ) . |
| 8 | Only 1% of the world 's HEU comes under the safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency ; that is mostly used to power small research reactors in countries that have no nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | The results show an initial period of maintained growth and then an oscillatory decline , presumably due to water stress . |
| 10 | Genetic effects of radiation are likely to be predominantly due to damage induced in the DNA molecular structure . |
| 11 | It is a world of " visions " and of " devils " , of " voices " and of " shadows " , and the fact that it is described throughout in vague and melodramatic terms suggests that it is fundamentally ill-suited to presentation in the kind of drama which Eliot wished to write . |
| 12 | These last two forms of cancer are now considered by experts to be in the category ‘ diseases for which the excess mortality in smokers may be partly or wholly attributable to smoking ’ . |
| 13 | Few other paediatric illnesses are as gratifying to diagnose and as uniformly responsive to treatment . |
| 14 | Choose a scented rambler like ‘ Albertine ’ or ‘ Dorothy Perkins ’ , or the thornless climber ‘ Zéphirine Drouhin ’ ( all pinks ) , although they 're rather prone to mildew ; or almost evergreen roses such as ‘ Albéric Barbier ’ , ‘ Emily Gray ’ , and ‘ Félicité et Perpétue ’ . |
| 15 | In squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck and in high grade non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma aneuploid tumours are most responsive to chemotherapy . |
| 16 | Garfield , of all the institutions in which she had ever worked , was most responsive to mood , to atmosphere ; it shifted and changed from day to day , from week to week , for it had , like the larger society of her larger imagining , its own corporate , its own embodied spirit , all the more powerful for its caging , its high barbed wire , its high walls . |
| 17 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 18 | Those which have a history of collaborating closely with people , such as the retrievers and other gundogs , are amongst the most responsive to training . |
| 19 | As a general guide , breeds which have been developed to work closely with people , such as retrievers , sheepdogs and spaniels are among the most responsive to training . |
| 20 | Though the markets remain nervously responsive to war news from the Gulf , they now seem to discount a serious threat to Saudi production . |
| 21 | The myth of punk comradeship provided the sense of fun but , in essence , it was little different to theatre cocktail parties . |
| 22 | External designs are easiest to work on but most prone to interference from mud and water . |
| 23 | Stonework most prone to acid deposition includes limestone and marble , while sandstone held together by calcareous cement is also susceptible to damage . |
| 24 | I worry that the necessary measures may radicalise the working class which is , of course , the sector most prone to unemployment . |
| 25 | It is the blue-eyed white cats that are most prone to deafness . |
| 26 | People who ‘ typically tend to attribute failure to global , stable and internal factors should be most prone to general and chronic helplessness depression with low self-esteem . ’ |
| 27 | Luckily , however , we are very much used to cinema . |
| 28 | Apart from personal interviews , the physical layout of a room is important for any group work ; chairs with desks in serried rows for example are not so conducive to discussion as chairs arranged in a circle or round a central table . |
| 29 | UN estimates were that 500-1,000 people were dying daily due to starvation and illnesses related to the crisis situation . |
| 30 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |