Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the hon. Gentleman , I regret the job losses at Clydesdale , which are due fundamentally to overcapacity in seamless tubes . |
| 2 | This may have been due partly to prudence . |
| 3 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 4 | The thoughts are subject also to refinement within the dynamic of the group . |
| 5 | Particles larger than this are subject only to saltation and surface creep . |
| 6 | ‘ I am subject only to grief , Nicholas said . |
| 7 | If people are fit to work , they are fit enough to cycle five miles ( on average , 74 per cent of all car journeys are less than five miles ) . |
| 8 | Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law . |
| 9 | The President appoints a Prime Minister and Cabinet who are responsible collectively to Parliament . |
| 10 | Because ‘ energy and matter are fundamental both to physics and chemistry ’ , it can be argued that physics and chemistry are not completely different subjects , but part of one body of knowledge . |
| 11 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |
| 12 | However , it could be argued that an organisation is badly structured because it is poorly managed , and even if it were restructured , poor management would continue to depress the organisation 's performance — ie. performance may not be attributable only to structure . |
| 13 | Experts have said that the cadmium may be due either to pollution or to " natural seabed reserves " . |
| 14 | And I said to me mother , I says look here , when I 'm old enough to work I say 's , I ai n't going to work for me dad I shall get a job on me own . |
| 15 | And I 'm glad also to greeting , it 's my last part John , if you 'd like to know ! |
| 16 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 17 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | The Commission does not believe that it would be fruitful simply to gauge individual local authorities ' spending levels against aggregate spending levels ( 1983 , p. 17 ) : |
| 19 | The place might not be familiar even to geography experts . |
| 20 | ‘ But wash it first or there wo n't be any there to dye . ’ |
| 21 | Expectations are high , the assumption often being that the vocation experienced by the person who enjoys nursing can be satisfied closer to home . |
| 22 | You 're going to be happiest closer to home now , Cancer and you 'll need time to yourself at the beginning of June . |
| 23 | And so they went on to recommend a return to selective education at secondary level , with no radical change in the sixth forms of the new grammar schools , even though some of these might be devoted exclusively to science and technology . |
| 24 | When implemented as a stand-alone MS-DOS application , BW-Server acts as a dedicated server , so that the workstation can be devoted exclusively to Network File System file and resource sharing . |
| 25 | One answer is that unions also provide other goods which are private to the extent that they are available only to union members . |
| 26 | All post-operative temperature rises should be considered as being due either to chest problems , wound infection , urine infection , deep vein thrombosis , or the introduction of bacteria during transfusion , until proved otherwise . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that there is a transition between the minor forms and the major ones : indeed , there seem to be fundamental differences between the two ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) , including the fact that the minor forms , being due mainly to surface creep , have the coarser grains in the ridges , while the larger forms , due mostly to saltation , tend to have the finer material near the crests . |
| 28 | But former executives and advisers to both companies told Esquire that the failures were due primarily to mismanagement and bad decision-making . |
| 29 | They were not er they were old enough to work , they were much older than me . |
| 30 | Her period then came early and flooded and the symptoms were severe enough to warrent a new prescription ( the Staphisagria was n't helping ) which came out to Millefolium . |