Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are obviously improvements to be made ; more science should be taught , and there is a great need for more specialists in the class-room , even if they have to be peripatetic teachers , shared between a number of schools . |
| 2 | Recognise that alcohol , cannabis , cocaine , LSD , heroin , Methadone , minor tranquillisers , sleeping tablets and many other mood-altering substances are all cross.addictive to sufferers from addictive disease and that all these drugs feed the disease regardless of whether they are legal , illegal or medicinally prescribed . |
| 3 | We must get the situation straight that the County Council is the ruling authority , we are only a subsidiary as a county and we get our problems on our traffic and our highways as we are only agents to the County Council , and the County Council control the education of Social Services . |
| 4 | North Atlantic prawns are down £1.69 to £4.29 , and breaded scampi is £1.99 for 400g , down £1 . |
| 5 | SCOTTISH salmon steaks are down £1 to £3.99 for 3lb at Asda . |
| 6 | Poverty and hardship are merely obstacles to be overcome . |
| 7 | In many cases , the traits of resignation and the low inspirations that Lewis describes are merely responses to the situation in which the poor find themselves and will therefore change if the situation changes . |
| 8 | Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’ |
| 9 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 10 | Chapels are not improvements to coal houses . |
| 11 | ‘ You are not kind to your little seester ! ’ |
| 12 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 13 | When sold later in life , they are not subject to tax again but a dealer is subject to paying 15/115ths of his profit . |
| 14 | In general , although offer letters are not legally binding , the buyer 's solicitors will insist that at least those clauses discussed below are not subject to contract , but are legally binding obligations on the parties . |
| 15 | AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ . |
| 16 | On the sale , the purchaser should not assume any such liabilities as they are not liabilities to the employees . |
| 17 | Other nations , which are not signatories to the treaty , are understood to be developing nuclear weapons . |
| 18 | If there are possible problems and conditions that make the company worried about how a partner will cope make it clear that you know what they are and that they are not problems to you . |
| 19 | Identity , civil , political and social rights and duties , and civic virtue are not elements to be selected on a pick-and-mix basis for the convenience or advantage of a political party . |
| 20 | THE five-year-old boys and girls listen attentively as their teacher explains that men who live with men are not figures to be frightened of . |
| 21 | They are not alternatives to be balanced off against it . |
| 22 | KPMG are not auditors to Target . |
| 23 | When the mayor ordered the lobbyists standing round the side of the chamber to move into the public gallery , Cooper protested that they had every right to be there : ‘ They are not peasants to be roped in . ’ |
| 24 | These are not targets to be met and should not be the basis or a starting point for development plan policies . |
| 25 | They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol . |
| 26 | ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . |
| 27 | In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’ |
| 28 | Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings . |
| 29 | I suggest to the Solicitor-General that a clear intellectual distinction can be drawn between evidence that relates to those who are parties to a trial and those who are not parties to a trial . |
| 30 | When a problem is based on a rule — e.g. the rule in Derry v. Peek or Rylands v. Fletcher — it is usually advisable to state the whole rule in a sentence or two , even though some parts of the rule are not material to the problem . |