Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain kinds of shares have features which make them economically similar to debt . |
| 2 | Yet the problem they faced over letting their daughter go out which now , with hindsight , leaves them so open to criticism , is a very familiar one for parents . |
| 3 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 4 | The bird 's retreat has led the Forestry Commission to modify three of its forests to make them more welcoming to capercaillie . |
| 5 | This makes women cheaper to dismiss and makes them more vulnerable to redundancy . |
| 6 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 7 | Curt Rohland , the president of the National Family Farm Coalition , said that the GAO report confirmed many farmers ' views that treating cows with a synthetic hormone puts the animals under greater stress , making them more vulnerable to infection , and hence leading to an increased use of antibiotics . |
| 8 | The small size of the formulations compared to red blood cells means they could penetrate solid tumours , making them more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiotherapy , and they could reach inaccessible parts of the heart during surgery . |
| 9 | Consider spraying your carpets with stain-retardant which coats the fibres and makes them more resistant to dirt and spills . |
| 10 | Hence the social acceptability of earlier retirement by women can prove a mixed blessing : it gives them more chance to leave paid work at a time of their own choosing , but also leaves them more open to pressure from others to retire . |
| 11 | I mean what what gives you more right to life than an animal does ? |
| 12 | For instance , there is evidence that a long history of failure in an important area of a person 's life makes them particularly vulnerable to depression in the context of a major loss or disappointment which could be interpreted as further evidence of their lack of competence . |
| 13 | She might only lose her temper about once every five years , but when she lost it , boy , did she lose it , and events these last few days had been urging her dangerously near to boiling-point . |
| 14 | Logic , when she came to it , seemed to her as near to Hell as she had ever been . |
| 15 | A history of failure in an area of life to which the person is highly committed not only makes him particularly vulnerable to depression following a further experience of failure , but can also raise the probability of further failures . |
| 16 | Benedick stays in prose , however , after the overhearing — perhaps there is something in him truly resistant to romance — whereas Beatrice moves up to verse after her duping ( II.i.107–16 ) . |
| 17 | The large size and wide-ranging habit of the orangutan make it especially vulnerable to devastation in tropical rainforests . |
| 18 | Is it possibly transferable to education and , given that teachers , lecturers and senior management teams are slow to change , can rapid change , in any event , ever be characteristic of a social service ? |
| 19 | He promised to demystify the all-powerful presidency and make it more accountable to congress and the voter . |
| 20 | Because sentencing is viewed by magistrates as a craft or mystery , whose rites are known only to initiates , ( as opposed to a rational enterprise dedicated to the pursuit of externally defined goals ) , this renders it both impervious to criticism from outside , and highly resistant to attempts at external control . |
| 21 | Not all writers , however , thought in national terms ; the distinguished canon lawyer William Lyndwood was not prepared to identify patria with regnum , and instead thought of it as equivalent to regio , which for him meant the province of Canterbury ( 27 , p.172a ) . |
| 22 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |
| 23 | What is it really like to farm in Eastern Europe ? |
| 24 | Absorb the complement with agarose ( 30 ) , store it at 70 C and only thaw it immediately prior to use . |
| 25 | Around 80% of its business is generated through value-added resellers and dealers — of which there are 500 in the UK alone — making it particularly vulnerable to piracy . |
| 26 | The studies of Thieblot and Haggard , and Grant and Wallace provide a useful checklist of those features of a ‘ strike setting ’ which make it particularly conducive to disorder . |
| 27 | There is , for example , no possible syntagmatic modification of animal which would render it cognitively equivalent to dog ( or elephant , mouse , crocodile , … ) . |
| 28 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 29 | Is it too expensive to stage ? |
| 30 | However , as it was impossible to know whether it was blow one or blow ten ( the maximum number permitted at the moment ) which drew the blood on Roy 's Dream , it did serve to underline that though the Jockey Club may be moving in the right direction , its pace of reform is still too slow , leaving it too open to criticism . |