Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moorhens , for example , are rather poorly adapted to parasitising their own . |
| 2 | With regard to Audrey it is difficult to identify the goals to which she aspires since these are rarely explicitly referred to , and she appears less often . |
| 3 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 4 | It is divided into three sections : the first records the books that are most frequently referred to in the dictionary , the second lists the books in numerical order , the last registers the books in alphabetical sequence . |
| 5 | A , a , A traditional classification which suggests that lampreys and hagfishes are most closely related to one another . |
| 6 | Rates are also cut in countries where currencies are most closely linked to the deutschmark ( Belgium , Netherlands , Austria and Switzerland , as well as Sweden ) . |
| 7 | The findings observed in this study are most probably related to differences in the fat composition of the diets . |
| 8 | To go one stage further : " consistency " and " tendency " are most naturally reduced to " frequency " and so , it appears , the stylistician becomes a statistician . |
| 9 | The social welfare indicators that are most commonly agreed to be of relevance here are the degree of literacy , the distribution of health and educational services , the infant mortality rate and the life expectancy of the population . |
| 10 | All spadefoot toads have adapted to arid environments , but it is these two species that are most finely tuned to the harsh extremes of life in the Sonoran desert . |
| 11 | Also , men are much more attuned to talking business with each other , something which women are not encouraged to do . ’ |
| 12 | The PIMS data still give some cause for puzzlement over the question of investment intensity , however , because Buzzell and Gale show that five-year averages of ROI are highly positively related to increases in the long-term value of the business , both being closely and positively associated with initial competitive position . |
| 13 | Boys are constitutionally more predisposed to the development of aggressive behaviour than are girls ( Wolff , 1983a ) . |
| 14 | Many commodity markets are institutionally well suited to speculation , having developed facilities for buying crops before they are harvested ( futures markets ) for small down-payments ( margin trading ) . |
| 15 | The larger , Q-beta RNA molecules are less well adapted to a test-tube environment but better adapted to the environment provided by E.coli cells . |
| 16 | Firstly , geography alone means foreign traders are less well known to one another because of the distances involved , e.g. a Brazilian exporter despatching goods to Singapore . |
| 17 | First , he takes ‘ meaning ’ rather than knowledge or rationality as his point of departure and , secondly , his headings are less closely related to conventional subject headings : symbolics ( including language , mathematics and other non-discursive symbolic forms ) , empirics ( natural and social sciences ) , aesthetics ( the arts ) , synnoetics ( personal knowledge ) , ethics , and synoptics ( history , religion , philosophy ) . |
| 18 | Even though some single industry groups are less directly connected to banks and financial companies , they are still deeply involved in interlocking shareholding arrangements with their suppliers . |
| 19 | Mark , I AM DEFFINATELY NOT DRIVING TO LEEDS ON SATURDAY ! ! ! |
| 20 | Exploratory techniques are extremely well fitted to sociolinguistic research . |
| 21 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 22 | In fact their feelings and the vast emotional adjustment they have to make are perhaps best explained to nuclear family dwellers by considering the reverse transplant from nuclear to joint family . |
| 23 | Some of the levels of detail that are capable of expression using the method outlined are perhaps best left to implementation . |
| 24 | HCIMA has been working closely with ARA Services to see how the standard can apply to catering and John Sharpe FHCIMA , the company 's quality development director , admits that contract caterers , unburdened by the extra difficulties caused by owning premises , are perhaps better suited to the concept than other sectors and will increasingly be asked in tender documents about their approach to BS7750 and its quality assurance forerunner 5750 . |
| 25 | Farms in DRAs tend to be far less capital intensive than those in the more advantaged areas , and though as a result , are perhaps less exposed to the problem of debt-servicing than wealthier farmers , their incomes are more susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices . |
| 26 | The Wandjina images and the cult of the Rainbow Serpent are so closely aligned to Indian serpent worship that the probability of cultural interchange in some remote age is no longer a vague theory . |
| 27 | Where tax-free reserves are so closely linked to capital investment , the small firm finds a greater proportion of profits subject to tax and may therefore be subject to a higher marginal rate of taxation . |
| 28 | The dicta in Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Saunders are not , of course , binding on us , but they are so closely linked to the ratio that we think it would be wrong to depart from them . |
| 29 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 30 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |