Example sentences of "and [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colic and sore to pressure , worse ( < ) after eating and better ( > ) heat . |
| 2 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 3 | Amphibians are particularly vulnerable to hot and dry conditions because their skins are so delicate and permeable to water . |
| 4 | ‘ I am fit , ’ he persisted , holding Llewelyn fast by the sleeve , for he was apt to flash away from armoury to store and stable to council chamber disconcertingly upon his universal errand of supervision . |
| 5 | Dramatic shifts in political support ( from Conservative and Labour to Alliance ) and in housing markets have accompanied incoming waves of professional and white-collar workers . |
| 6 | The grant level reduction announced by MAFF on 11 December 1984 constitutes a major change brought about as a result of wanting to reduce public expenditure and due to concern for the conservation of upland landscapes and wildlife . |
| 7 | Following Tadpole Technology Plc 's flotation on the UK Stock Exchange last December ( CI No 2,064 ) and due to interest shown in its shares in the US , the Cambridge-based company intends to appoint US financial advisors with a view to obtaining a New York listing for its shares in American Depositary Receipt form . |
| 8 | Following Tadpole Technology Plc 's flotation on the UK Stock Exchange last December and due to interest shown in its shares in the US , the Cambridge-based company intends to appoint US financial advisors with a view to obtaining a New York listing for its shares in American Depository Receipt form . |
| 9 | The SCI chips — made by Vitesse Semiconductor and due to prototype this Autumn — are claimed to deliver a sustained 1Gbps bandwidth between component nodes ; Dolphin highlights its ability to be used both for tightly coupling processors ( up to 1,000 RISCs ) to memory ( up to 100Mb ) and input-output , and for loosely coupling distributed workstations and other subsystems , at backplane bandwidth . |
| 10 | Fleischmann and Pons worried that the numbers of neutrons that they appeared to be seeing were billions less than should have been the case if their heat data were correct and due to fusion . |
| 11 | His shock resignation was shrouded in mystery , although at the time his reasons were given as being ‘ personal and due to family matters . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , excuse me , Mrs Sutherland , but a kid with no ma , no pa but they 're both alive , living near by and rich to boot , while some matron , fine though she may be , is paid to take care of him and he works vacations ? |
| 13 | A child who is enabled to cope well with a parent 's illness , say , may well become more competent and resilient to adversity in the future . |
| 14 | Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error . |
| 15 | Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error . |
| 16 | Yet despite nearly 150 years of Western contact Japanese people are still regarded by non-Japanese as group-oriented , lacking individualism and prone to authoritarianism . |
| 17 | This type of hair tends to be naturally dry and prone to breakage , so it requires special care . |
| 18 | There is also a recommendation to make SHAs , the majority of which are single-specialty hospitals and prone to isolation , part of a major hospital complex . |
| 19 | Concerned about his influence , and afraid to beard the sultan himself , " the vezir Mahmud Pasa " consulted Fahreddin Acemi who , having heard for himself the Hurufi 's heretical words , denounced him in Mehmed II's presence . |
| 20 | The idea behind it is to cover practically every graphics eventually in one integrated bundle , with loads of fonts and clip-art to boot . |
| 21 | It seems to be generally agreed that this is in some way ‘ special ’ , and peculiar to English . |
| 22 | Connery 's endorsement of a political creed has brought something brand new and risky to politics in Britain : the heavyweight celebrity as politician . |
| 23 | Blackberry scrambled up into the fern and then returned to the top of the bank , fidgeting nervously and half-inclined to bolt at nothing . |
| 24 | The example shows that the use of this model allows the planner to examine the consequences of changes in the system ( for example , a new train timetable , differing train lengths , greater variability in train arrival times , more road traffic ) without carrying out experiments on the real world which , in this case , would be possible but would also be very expensive and inconvenient to road and rail users . |
| 25 | Above ground , car lots are unsightly and inconvenient to pedestrian movement . |
| 26 | When it is suggested to him that it may be necessary and unavoidable to kill those who oppress mankind in the same way as it is necessary and unavoidable to hill a homicidal lunatic who threatens society , his reply is that no man is so evil as to be beyond redemption , and no man so perfect as to be justified in killing these whom he considers to be evil . |
| 27 | Taciturn , precise , a perfectionist engineer , with little skill in a boardroom , Bentley was , by his own account , unresponsive and over-sensitive to criticism , dependent always on the riches of others whom he could not control . |
| 28 | This analysis in terms of totalities is rooted in the Hegelian background of the Frankfurt theorists , and is integrally interwoven with the historical thinking that is fundamental to Hegel and foreign to positivism . |
| 29 | So , this qualified form of democracy entails that the government is representative of and responsive to public opinion ; and that where this opinion is not unanimous it is representative of and responsive to the majority . |
| 30 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |