Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helmets are watery from spike to chin-strap . |
| 2 | The shorter the period over which prices are sticky in relation to the period over which government policy instruments are sticky , the more likely it is that the policy implications of chapter 4 will remain . |
| 3 | Theorems 2 and 3 together give us a relative completeness result : relative to the knowledge we are assuming about expressions , our algebraic laws are complete with respect to deciding the equivalence of finite programs . |
| 4 | Holden calls someone a ‘ phoney ’ if they behave in a superficial way , or if they value the wrong things , for example money and beauty , and are hypocritical in order to be accepted in society . |
| 5 | Actions for damages ( as opposed to injunctions ) have not so far figured largely in litigation against individuals caused by industrial action ; the limits to union liability set by the 1982 Act are low in relation to the loss that may be suffered and the very large fines imposed for contempt by disobedience to injunctions have probably been a more powerful sanction . |
| 6 | At a more detailed level considerable variations are possible from model to model , such as the exact ratios of hydrogen to helium and of hydrogen to the other substances . |
| 7 | The course should give details on the various ethnic groups and , if any particular groups are disadvantaged with respect to others , this should be covered and the implications explained . |
| 8 | Until the potential political power of the millions of women who are disadvantaged in relation to paid and unpaid labour and in retirement is realised , policies to combat the poverty of many of those aged 60 and over are not likely to be forthcoming . |
| 9 | 1,3-Dithiadiazoles are unstable with respect to isomerisation to the 1,2-isomer and consequently isolation of these 1,3-radicals has , on the whole , been unsuccessful . |
| 10 | Sea-kayaks are unstable in comparison to river canoes I decide . |
| 11 | The L1 protein shows a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities in vitro , and its putative anti-proliferative properties are interesting in relation to the immunosuppression postulated to take place in lamina propria . |
| 12 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it is pertinent to observe that while academic studies at college and polytechnics are presented as being important because they enrich the student , the subjects which are acceptable for entry to a primary PGCE course are clearly defined . |
| 14 | These people are afraid of anger to such an extent that they are dishonest . |
| 15 | In particular the researchers are interested in responses to a recent directive concerning the uses and meanings of literacy practices in the writers ' lives . |
| 16 | Falcons are interested in food to the exclusion of everything else , but an owl likes to know precisely what 's going on around it , even if it 's hungry . |
| 17 | Its decisions on authorisation , disqualification , making public statements of misconduct and the exercise of its powers of intervention are subject to appeal to a statutory tribunal , the Financial Services Tribunal . |
| 18 | The golden orb web-building spider Nephila clavipes has males which are tiny in comparison to their females . |
| 19 | Thus , for instance , Jeremy Lever QC in a recent article referred to ‘ the lack of recitals to United Kingdom legislation and the rule that reports of parliamentary debates are inadmissible as aids to construction , in consequence of which there may be no way in which the objects of United Kingdom legislation can be readily ascertained by our courts . ’ |
| 20 | Moore might well have presented his claim that good , in contrast to horse and various other universals , is simple , as the statement that it is a quality , for there is a sense in which all the universals most naturally called qualities are simple in contrast to other universals , such as forms ( e.g. shapes ) or structures ( e.g.the way in which an army is organized ) . |
| 21 | The great experimental merit of Aplysia , by contrast with Drosophila , which has as many neurons , or the octopus , which has far more , is that many of the Aplysia neurons are very large — up to a millimetre or so in diameter — and they are located in characteristic and recognizable patterns , which are reproducible from animal to animal . |
| 22 | There are hundreds of things to be done for tomorrow . ’ |
| 23 | These small plateaux , covered in basaltic lavas , are similar in formation to that of Paúl da Serra to the west of the central mass . |
| 24 | Geologically the Desertas are similar in formation to the volcanic rocks of the Machico area ( post-Pliocene ) from which they are separated by a channel 50–100m deep . |
| 25 | The possibilities become more interesting when we begin to ask questions such as ‘ What objects in this database are similar in shape to this one ? ’ . |
| 26 | Scotland has 16 Central Institutions , which are similar in function to polytechnics in England and Wales , though they have always been controlled centrally by the Scottish Education Department rather than by local education authorities . |
| 27 | Attached brick-built garages are similar in cost to extensions ; pre-fabricated concrete garages cost from about £1,000 up to £4,000 , but now come in attractive finishes and , at the top of the range , with pitched roofs that can be tiled to match the house . |
| 28 | They have muscular tentacles in a well-developed head region , highly efficient eyes which are similar in construction to those of vertebrates ( although obviously independently derived ) , and they feed with the aid of strong , beak-like jaws . |
| 29 | Most a.c. bridges are similar in form to the Wheatstone bridge for measuring resistance described in section 3.9 . |
| 30 | The reactors are similar in design to the Chernobyl plant but have undergone a number of modifications since 1986 . |