Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedures of public decision-making , therefore , may be more cautious than in the private sector , and more prone to the excesses of paper record-keeping in case the decision needs to be defended at a later date . |
| 2 | This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought . |
| 3 | In theory the system was efficient and just ; in practice it was prone to the limitations of travel , seasons , and the possibility of corruption , which was inevitable in such an extended empire . |
| 4 | Planted at an altitude of between 100 and 200 metres , the higher situated vines are less prone to the dangers of frost and provide well-structured , fruity wines . |
| 5 | While in times of war its uneasy location between the Frankish and German kingdoms rendered it prone to the ravages of invading armies , in times of peace , it was ideally situated at the crossroads to the great trade centres of Europe . |
| 6 | And the forty-three forces in England and Wales now contain some formidable units , amalgamated out of the small borough , city , and county forces of the pre-1960s , many of which were prone to the whims of corrupt local politicians ( Simey 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Since then , Soviet dominance has appeared that much more stark and anomalous to the peoples of Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | Gandhi is faithful to the traditions of Hinduism when he affirms the isomorphism of Truth ( Satya ) and Reality ( Sat ) . |
| 9 | Manea Manescu , who counted as the intellectual of the group , tried to explain how ‘ the road to hell is paved with good intentions ’ , but , despite all the difficulties of his position , he had remained ‘ faithful to the principles of his youth ’ . |
| 10 | Cabinet members and other senior administrators were also obliged to attend indoctrination sessions where major figures , from the president down , lectured them on the virtues of teamwork and exhorted them to remain faithful to the principles of Reaganism . |
| 11 | Although the provinces round Petrograd and Moscow and on the Upper Volga recovered fast economically and were probably better treated , since they had stayed faithful to the Bolsheviks from 1917 , they were relatively unimportant as agricultural producers . |
| 12 | Again , if we are faithful to the terms of the story , we will refrain from any attempt to provide rational explanations of these events . |
| 13 | That His Majesty , understanding that the Forest Laws are grievous to the Subjects of this Kingdom … out of his Grace and Goodness to his people , is willing to lay down all the new Bounds of his Forests … reduced to the same Condition as they were before the late justices Seat held . |
| 14 | The reasons for the centre 's heed fur taxes like the prodnalog and many others had not been made clear to the villagers by the party cell . |
| 15 | Tenderly responsive to the self-deceptions of others , he was unfortunately too well able to understand his own . |
| 16 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 17 | Sir Edward Boyle , probably the most gifted and perceptive Conservative Education Minister of the post-war years , appreciated that for schools to flourish teachers need to be kept abreast of good practice and encouraged to be responsive to the findings of contemporary research . |
| 18 | It is why I believe the Labour Party must be bold in demonstrating our commitment to enhance and extend individual freedom by building a society which is dynamic and responsive to the aspirations of all our people . |
| 19 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
| 20 | The even more extraordinary notion , that clients ' opinions could be used to reshape social work practice into a more effective intervention , and that social policy itself could be responsive to the views of its recipients , has taken even longer to achieve respectability amongst social commentators . |
| 21 | There are also many active individual members , deeply dissatisfied with the record of recent Labour Cabinets , who are determined to ensure that any future Labour Government shall carry out socialist policies and be responsive to the views of active party members . |
| 22 | How to make government responsive to the choices of those it was expected to cater to ? |
| 23 | This brings him back to another of Mr Major 's weekend promises , to give people more of a stake in their local administration : ‘ If they are going to bring local government closer to people , it has got to be more responsive to the wishes of people , and less to the wishes of central Government . |
| 24 | Even colonies which did not have direct religious origins would have religious commitments ; Virginia had been launched in as secular-minded a mood as almost any colony but it remained firmly attached to the forms of the Church of England , though the lack of regular episcopal organization made its clergy more responsive to the wishes of their congregations than was usually the case in England . |
| 25 | Visby 's compromise was regarded by the developing nations as responsive to the complaints of maritime carriers . |
| 26 | ( 5 ) Because of the interdependence of process and content , the curriculum developments to be favoured are those which synchronise changes in focus with changes in activities and are responsive to the effects of the interplay between them . |
| 27 | In comparison , Roman law had shown itself flexible and responsive to the interests of creditors . |
| 28 | Alternatively ( as happened in many Third World countries in the 1980s ) they may be responsive to the interests of transnational capital in the shape of the World Bank and the IMF imposing ‘ restructuring ’ policies in order to ensure repayment of Third World debts . |
| 29 | However , in the terms of the theory of the capitalist global system elaborated here , apart from those directly or indirectly responsive to the interests of the TNCs as expressed by the transnational capitalist class , their transnational practices are dis ’ tinctly marginal . |
| 30 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |