Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding suggests , that high infant mortality of first order births in populations characterized by early marriage may be attributable mostly to the very young age of mothers at first birth . |
| 2 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |
| 3 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 4 | This variation seemed to be due both to the severity of the impairment and to personality factors ; it would therefore be simplistic and unwise to make generalisations based entirely on impairment . |
| 5 | Any increase in the ratio of shares and physical assets in people 's portfolios will be due simply to the new lower interest rates on bonds . |
| 6 | Group formation may be due here to the collaboration of males in defence against rivals , so that male relationships become the main factor influencing the dispersion of females . |
| 7 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
| 8 | This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals . |
| 9 | This may be due either to the covalently but reversibly crosslinked intermediate formed prior to methyltransfer ( Figure 1 , structure 2 ) or to an unspecific side-reaction ( e.g. presence in the synthetic oligonucleotides of trace quantities of reactive molecular species of unknown structure and capable of unspecific crosslinking can not strictly be ruled out ) . |
| 10 | This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization . |
| 11 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 12 | Second , there is the possibility ( which , according to the Marxist model of capitalist liberal democracies , will become a certainty ) that the bureaucracy will be responsive primarily to the interests of a particular class in society . |
| 13 | Government actions may be responsive mainly to the interests of the capitalist class or the interests of a political class dependent on popular or sectional support to maintain its position of power . |
| 14 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 15 | In discussing pre-war crime , we must be faithful both to the continuities and also to the sometime surprising ‘ permissiveness ’ of the interwar years . |
| 16 | The fruits of diversification will be clear even to the most sceptical observers in another few years , they claim , when the company 's new subsidiaries will help Mercedes build still better cars while the company 's ability to throw resources into fast-growing high-tech areas will give it an edge in those markets . |
| 17 | Now that should be clear even to the ordinary rugby spectator who has never played in the front row . |
| 18 | ‘ By the time the weary reader has plodded that far , it will be clear even to the uninitiated that writing this book was a labour of hate — for reasons reviewers can not be expected to discern and which are in any case of small interest . |
| 19 | Swod paused , as though expecting everything to be clear now to the chief inspector . |
| 20 | Rent which continues to be payable either to the Policyholder or by the Policyholder while the Policyholder 's home is uninhabitable as a result of destruction or damage caused by an insured peril . |
| 21 | The cuts would be noticeable only to the expert onlooker and there was certainly ‘ no cause for alarm ’ , he said . |
| 22 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 23 | Much has been written about the technological challenge of North Sea oil , said to be second only to the American space programme in scale . |
| 24 | This can be welcome neither to the Jordanian regime nor to themselves . |
| 25 | Interestingly , under these conditions A has an effect on certain quantum-mechanical phenomena.t It would be unfair both to the vector potential and to quantum mechanics to say that none of those formulations have engineering applications ( in fact the most sensitive magnetometer built to date is based on that kind of theory ) , but by and large engineers would n't lose much sleep if the use of A were banned with immediate effect . |
| 26 | There 's only one source that can give you the answer and it might be pointed our that their refusal to divulge this information might put the whole future of NATO at risk and that the individual ultimately responsible for the negative decision would be answerable directly to the president of the United States . |
| 27 | I do n't insist what I 've done has to be important forever to the theatre . |
| 28 | In your appointment as Director-General of the Security Service you will be responsible personally to the Home Secretary . |
| 29 | If a holder , nonetheless , transfers his private key , the carrier will be responsible only to the party to whom it issued the last valid private key . |
| 30 | This leads to some repetition , but not enough to detract from the valuable information the book contains , not all of which will be familiar even to the keen naturalist , and some of the thoughts are challenging . |