Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft . |
| 2 | The Manager using the system is constantly face to face with data and this increases his knowledge of the company and its personnel . |
| 3 | Aprlow , Buckinghamshire-based SynOptics Communications UK Ltd has cut the price of its LattisNet family of FDDI intelligent hubs : the list price of the Model 2912A Workgroup Hub has been reduced 36% to £9,950 and the FDDI Fibre Optic Host module is down 27% to £5,535 ; the FDDI Network Management Module now costs £9,950 , a 33% reduction . |
| 4 | Pat 's view that there is enough work to er have another complaint examiner really means instead of exec investigators . |
| 5 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 6 | It is only reference to the gates being closed in the evening . |
| 7 | The coven will also employ magic , but this is only secondary to its beliefs and worship . |
| 8 | This interpretation makes it quite clear that the disposition in the will has failed , and that it is only thanks to the trust clause that the nurses do obtain this additional income . |
| 9 | It is only thanks to this close control that maximum use can be made of the water available to generate electricity . |
| 10 | That , I feel sure , is scarcely news to you . |
| 11 | Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on . |
| 12 | The result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor but few or no offspring . ’ |
| 13 | The Company is not party to any arrangement to enable any Director or his family to acquire benefit through the acquisition of any shares , debentures or loan stock of any other company . |
| 14 | Alford distinguishes the lay popular interest in development of services as the third and largely repressed force : it is not organized as a permanent lobby and is not party to the agenda setting between the monopolists and the rationalizers . |
| 15 | He was , see that they are saying , it is not theft to be theft |
| 16 | They prefer to be unlocked but it is not prison to them . ’ |
| 17 | Here the difference is the stress upon the mother 's role as provider for her children : Orchardson 's work suggests the mother has little physical involvement with the child 's everyday material needs whereas , in Knight 's work , the close physical contact between mother and children and their dress denotes harsh necessity rather than worship — there is not time to ‘ fondly gaze ’ . |
| 18 | It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions . |
| 19 | There is not limit to how often a shoe can be resoled or repaired , provided it retains support from the upper and midsole . |
| 20 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly that the ride is uncomfortable by a brusque and unhelpful driver . ’ |
| 21 | It is not material to any issue before the court , but I should record that on 26 March 1991 the board of Lautro considered whether intervention remained justified in the light of information that had come to their knowledge since 30 October 1990 . |
| 22 | The Vendor can not be expected to anticipate what is and what is not material to a Purchaser . |
| 23 | A Rotherham lad with a residual accent , he is already PPS to the Chancellor . |
| 24 | It is largely thanks to this one moment of history that there currently exists an unbroken line of Spanish-speaking nations through 90° of latitude from Tijuana in northern Mexico to Punta Arenas in southern Chile . |
| 25 | It is largely thanks to the perseverance of a former CO of the RAF Institute of Aviation Pathology , Group Captain Mason ( now Professor of Forensic Pathology at Edinburgh University ) , that there is international recognition of the contribution of the aviation pathologist in aircraft accident investigation by way of a specification recommending their positive involvement in formal investigations written into Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation . |
| 26 | Erm and again the key times for that is usually September to April . |
| 27 | There is conversation which is usually face to face but may sometimes involve telecommunication . |
| 28 | But the best communication is always person to person . |
| 29 | ‘ There is always a way through and there is always interest to be found along the way . ’ |
| 30 | In the case of the EC , however , there is still resistance to a closer union , notably by Britain , in defence of what are conceived by governments at any particular time to be ‘ national interests ’ , and even if some form of supranational political organization were eventually achieved this might result , as some critics fear , in the emergence of another power bloc in the international arena , a ‘ Fortress Europe ’ , closed in particular to the Third World . |