Example sentences of "be [adj] to [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 's been used to lads ' nights out each week , and football practice on Sundays , you 're going to have to reach a compromise . |
| 2 | Those that are due to demands ' being refused and bad temper can be ignored but others are best managed by helping the child cope with frustrating experiences . |
| 3 | Most had been subject to companies ' general cost-cutting exercises and are now smaller in number and size than formerly . |
| 4 | The major concern for clients in debt recovery work is reporting each stage of each case , and this report facility , linked with the information already held on computer , will provide an opportunity for reports to be prepared to clients ' specifications on any given timescale . |
| 5 | The subsequent White Paper , Legal Services : A Framework for the Future ( Cm 740 ) , adopted a different tone , referring rather more to the requirement for legal services to be responsive to clients ' needs than to notions of competition and the discipline of the market ; but in content the proposals actually gave little ground on key points . |
| 6 | Course work may take a variety of forms including practical and investigational work ; tasks should be appropriate to candidates ' individual levels of ability . |
| 7 | If your husband dies , you will be entitled to widows ' benefit in the same way as any other widow . |
| 8 | It cooks well and is particularly useful for children who are allergic to cows ' milk cheeses , although all sheep 's milk cheeses are expensive for everyday use . |
| 9 | Although ‘ swamping ’ by elderly disabled people was partly responsible for this situation , the lack of motivation is attributable to users ' earlier life experiences : for the majority rehabilitation was inappropriate and for the rest the facilities offered were inadequate . |
| 10 | SCP is similar to bankers ' acceptances in that it is evidenced by a formal document and issued at a discount which is paid upfront . |
| 11 | In Project English 3 the cognitive approach to grammar continues , but greater emphasis is given to functions , as is appropriate to learners ' needs at this level . |
| 12 | The next chapter by Ruth Gardner is devoted to consumers ' views and their involvement in decision making about services , policy and practice . |
| 13 | The difficulties encountered in treating vasculitic ulcers were referred to by four nurses , and of the ‘ steroid skin ’ by a further two , while two recognised their failure to heal ulcers was due to patients ' unstable diabetes , and one called for a clinical specialist with specific knowledge of leg ulcers to advise on difficult cases . |
| 14 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Finance was sympathetic to employers ' insistence that their authority should not be undermined . |