Example sentences of "[adj] to [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , just as the latter might be thought to have an intuitive grasp of affairs automotive which ought to be taken into account by anyone prone to theorising about the motor car , so it is conceivable that the way theoretical physicists regard the objects of their study might be a factor to be taken into account in assessing their significance . |
| 2 | A small quibble is the metal zip pullers , which are stylist and natty in design , but prone to digging into the flesh when under a rucksack waistbelt or climbing harness . |
| 3 | It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it . |
| 4 | So the notion that venture capitalists are prone to interfering in the businesses in which they invest is not , strictly speaking , a valid one , or if so not a criticism about which MBO managers would fret too much . |
| 5 | He knew Sir Ralph 's type : a professional soldier , a mercenary who would crusade for the faith but was not averse to serving in the armies of the infidel . |
| 6 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 7 | The Cambridge Board was fully committed to its existing developments in the other counties , considered earlier in this chapter , and the LEA were averse to contributing to the salary of the tutor until the scheme had become firmly established in the county — a Catch 22 situation — and the scheme petered out in 1934 . |
| 8 | If all can be made relatively understandable to newcomers , then they will be better disposed to listening to the word of God preached with conviction , which the Bible says contains the seed of life to those who are otherwise perishing . |
| 9 | Polishing the fit in this way is analogous to reroughing in the last chapter . |
| 10 | Here they are half-way to becoming like the tiny windows of farms in Cumberland where fierce winds blow . |
| 11 | You will appreciate that it may be subject to redrafting in the light of experience . |
| 12 | The Commission finally agreed on Dec. 21 , 1989 , after some years of often bitter disagreement , on a formula for determining whether cross-border corporate mergers within the EC should be subject to vetting by the Commissioner for competition policy so as to determine whether they would result in an unduly large market share for the newly merged companies ( for earlier drafts see p. 36310 ) . |
| 13 | Hereford 's cup defeat at Bath was the biggest blow of the weekend … there 's not much to chose between the bottom pro league and the top amateur table these days … |
| 14 | The latter are amenable to testing by the manager to see if they influence behaviour . |
| 15 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 16 | Several of the Georgian mansions in Gone With the Wind ( 1939 ) , together with most of the burning buildings of Atlanta ( or rather , the buildings in front of those supposed to burning in the distance ) were the work of the talented matte painter Jack Cosgrove , though for montage sequences he had help from the neighbouring MGM effects department , since MGM and Selznick , the producer , were both located in Culver City . |
| 17 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 18 | As most recorded cases of this antedate the main period of enclosures in the mid fifteenth century , it is not clear if the conversion of land from arable to grazing in the period of population decline contributed to this . |
| 19 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 20 | And I was surprised at how easily my eyes became accustomed to seeing in the light of the head torch . |
| 21 | So even the most rapid changes in these things were going very , very slowly compared with the kinds of rates which we 're accustomed to seeing in the lab. erm so on the whole so far deep sea cores seem to me to suggest that really at least those beauties are really pretty gradualistic in their behaviour . |
| 22 | ‘ In the past , ’ he said as he returned to Robbie 's side , ‘ she 's been accustomed to sleeping at the foot of my bed . |
| 23 | Not only are Arsenal losing , but they are failing to score — just one goal from seven games — and it 's beginning to have an effect on fans who have been accustomed to rolling with the good times . |
| 24 | The KDP were accustomed to retreating across the frontier into Iran and Idris Barzani died there in 1987 . |
| 25 | Brigadier Scott is taken to the Sergeants ' Mess to meet the Mess members , all of Whom have played vital parts either as instructors or in the administrative support of the recruits ' training , prior to lunching in the Officers ' Mess . |
| 26 | The third group of dolphins was in transit in Yeliu Harbour , prior to shipping to the oceanarium on mainland Taiwan . |
| 27 | Its route took it to Constantinople prior to passing through the southern part of the sprawling Ottoman empire to the Persian Gulf there to revert to a submarine route again before continuing to Karachi . |
| 28 | Prior to eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil , Adam and Eve were not troubled by ontological anxiety . |
| 29 | The CAA 's General Aviation Safety Information Leaflet recounts the tale of a conscientious PPL who was pre-flighting his Cherokee Six prior to flying to the PFA rally at Wroughton this summer . |
| 30 | It 's one of Metallica 's tour personnel talking at the band 's hotel , just prior to leaving for the night 's Wembley gig … |