Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] vagaries [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Eight hundred to a thousand people will live in a dense area and are subject to the vagaries of government and landlords .
2 The extreme lightness of the diaphragm further assists fidelity by responding instantaneously to very tiny signals and transients , and the proximity to the listener 's ears means that the sounds are not subject to the vagaries of directivity and unwanted reflections .
3 For our purposes , culture is simply a convenient term to describe the sum of learned knowledge and skills — including religion and language — that distinguishes one community from another and which , subject to the vagaries of innovation and change , passes on in a recognizable form from generation to generation .
4 However , the location of smoke detectors in racks , whilst providing an alarm , will be less effective in pin-pointing the exact location of the incident due to the vagaries of travel of smoke plumes from smouldering fires .
5 However , even if the bureau has the typeface it may well not appear on the output due to the vagaries of Apple 's font numbering system .
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