Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Others , including myself , believe that non-punitive but truly compensatory damages awarded by the courts of the United Kingdom are preferable to the exorbitance of emotionally-driven jury awards , ’ he said . |
| 2 | This would help me in ensuring that project staff are alert to the need to establish links when new initiatives are being considered . |
| 3 | But this is a private language ; no one else could learn it , because the experiences by appeal to which the terms in it get their meaning are private to the speaker . |
| 4 | One answer is that unions also provide other goods which are private to the extent that they are available only to union members . |
| 5 | At the top-end are two new VAXes which are upgradable to the Alpha RISC via board swaps from next year . |
| 6 | On the whole , these informal practices are conducive to the management 's organizational goals rather than a departure from them . |
| 7 | The remains we have found , i.e. the keel and ballast are conducive to the site having been blown apart — some of the large bronze pins have been bent and distorted by the force . |
| 8 | The dilemmas and compromises which are inherent to the task of teaching need to be honestly identified and openly confronted . |
| 9 | Memories are cruel to the present in that way and , as far as sexual intercourse is concerned , it is axiomatic that familiarity breeds contempt . ’ |
| 10 | Smetana 's Vltava was pleasant , beautifully in tune — parts of the piece are cruel to the wind players — but it trickled into glorious Prague like a kindly trout stream , instead of surging with splendour . |
| 11 | Its worship and its priests and its teaching are strange to the society in which it lives . |
| 12 | They thus become an indicator of how far out of balance the organism is and of how deeply the system has been affected , and are specific to the individual irrespective of the basic cause of the imbalance . |
| 13 | Some of their skills and knowledge are specific to the company for which they work , and they would be of less value to another company . |
| 14 | It is uncertain whether they are directly applicable to our system , where the majority of errors are specific to the pattern recogniser . |
| 15 | remove any INI files which are specific to the application |
| 16 | In each field , the criteria are specific to the discipline in question . |
| 17 | His principal criticism is one to which we have already referred : that Jakobson does not differentiate linguistic features which are perceptible to the reader from those which are not , and which therefore remain ‘ alien to the poetic structure ’ ( Riffaterre 1966 : 207 ) of the text . |
| 18 | Apart from the points discussed above , which are due to the structure of the file , two more considerations will influence the space required by the file . |
| 19 | According to a Nature Conservancy Council Report ( 1981b ) significant declines in swan populations in many parts of Britain are due to the ingestion of lead shot and weights which find their way on to lake and stream beds from where they are consumed as grit . |
| 20 | The main areas of restriction are due to the machine 's inability or difficulty in coping with very large calculations at a satisfactory speed , large amounts of text or graphics , fast animation or large shapes , device control , and real-time control . |
| 21 | Grateful thanks are due to the following , without whom I could have written this piece but it would have been rubbish |
| 22 | The recent increases in Obando production are due to the success of the well stimulation programme , and there is scope for further production to be obtained over the coming months . |
| 23 | Such long stints on the carpet are due to the consistency of leading players , whose skill is such they cancel each other out . |
| 24 | Many failures in examinations are due to the unfamiliarity and strangeness of the situation . |
| 25 | Some of these lesser variations are due to the timing of government policy changes in the public sector . |
| 26 | In the variable-reluctance stepping motor the voltages induced by the rotor motion are due to the variation of the phase inductance with rotor position . |
| 27 | Many of the benefits that come from brisk walking are due to the CV effect — the effect produced on the cardiovascular ( CV ) system . |
| 28 | Thus the conspicuous colours of the Heteroptera Dysdercus , Pyrrhocoris , Oncopeltus and Phonoctonus are due to the red and yellow pterines erythropterin and xanthopterin , along with the white leucopterin . |
| 29 | Having said that , congratulations are due to the Institute for a starry conference , and to Anthony Sharp for firm and smooth chairing . |
| 30 | The bands are labelled : OC = open circular DNA , CCC = covalently closed circular DNA and linear DNA , DNA bands above the open circular are due to the presence of dimers and higher molecular weight multimers present in the preparation . |