Example sentences of "[adj] to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Augustine 's world had still contained blocks refractory to the light of the gospel . |
| 2 | ‘ They are unsociable to the quality of life we enjoy within our village . |
| 3 | While most all-night recording experiments are over brief periods ( of up to a week ) , some very extended studies have been done , and there is no evidence that the patterns of sleep we observe over short periods ( after the first night ) are in any way peculiar to the unfamiliarity of the laboratory environment . |
| 4 | There are certain characteristics peculiar to the use of machines in language teaching : Listening To develop the ability to understand the language spoken at a normal speed . |
| 5 | That question itself was not peculiar to the Age of Reason . |
| 6 | Didier was eleven , a quiet child with the natural distrust of foreigners peculiar to the French of his class , and times . |
| 7 | Why after the earlier failures did the military rising of 1820 , ‘ risky to the point of being ridiculous ’ in the opinion of one of the conspirators , nevertheless succeed ? |
| 8 | However , the lighter the camera the harder it is to hold steady , though at least one ultra-compact machine now has Electronic Image Stabilisation to minimise picture shake ! ( ) n the other hand , professional-style camcorders , which are much heavier , are not as prone to the problem of camera-shake . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought . |
| 11 | He also has a quartet he attempts to rule with a very firm hand and an inadequate manager called Giant ( Spike Lee himself ) whose obsession with gambling is one reason why the group is prone to the exploitation of ( white ) New York club owners . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Holistic explanations such as those employed by Althusser and Poulantzas are peculiarly prone to the charge of incompleteness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | for some who , given European experience , seemed to be the most prone to the appeal of fascism in the lower middle classes , it proved to have only marginal importance in the 1930s in Britain . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Because homoeopathy tends to be unfamiliar to the majority of people , they ask a lot of questions about it . |
| 19 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 20 | Since then , Soviet dominance has appeared that much more stark and anomalous to the peoples of Eastern Europe . |
| 21 | His creativity continued unabated to the end of his life , but his efficiency in administration and political reform soon led to enormous demands being made on his time . |
| 22 | Gandhi is faithful to the traditions of Hinduism when he affirms the isomorphism of Truth ( Satya ) and Reality ( Sat ) . |
| 23 | The official view remained faithful to the spirit of a memorandum issued to the internment tribunals in 1939 : |
| 24 | In retelling the drama I shall make use of some of my own images and those of some Catholic and Protestant divines , but I shall remain faithful to the spirit of the Greek fathers and their understanding of the Great Battle . |
| 25 | On the other side , faithful to the spirit of the UDC 's liberal internationalism , Labour insisted on an early return to unrestricted free trade . |
| 26 | The ethnographer 's central concern is to provide a description that is faithful to the world-view of the participants in the social context being described . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , in his central theology and sense of the nature of religion in general and Catholicism in particular , he remained extraordinarily faithful to the papacy of Pius XII during which he had been trained and ordained . |
| 30 | Like many of the Impressionists , Sisley experienced stylistic difficulties towards the end of the 1870s , but he remained faithful to the technique of Impressionism . |