Example sentences of "and [adv] vulnerable to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soil Survey and Land Research Centre at Silsoe has identified 15 per cent of soils in the Midlands , eastern and southern England as lying over chalk , limestone or sandstone , and so vulnerable to nitrate leaching . |
| 2 | These are so ponderous and unwieldy and so vulnerable to obstruction that it seems remarkable that major decisions are ever made outside of crisis situations . |
| 3 | Elves are long-lived , some say immortal , and less vulnerable to disease than humans . |
| 4 | Workforces in small firms are generally non-unionized , lower paid and more vulnerable to unemployment , whilst workers in large corporations are highly unionized , better paid and less routinely vulnerable to job losses . |
| 5 | This is because the exercise of these functions makes others dependent on their good faith and conscientiousness , and particularly vulnerable to exploitation by them . |
| 6 | As we shall see later , it is not that the superego does not exist in these circumstances , but that it is undeveloped , unsupported by cultural forces of a progressive character ( and therefore vulnerable to exploitation by those of a regressive nature ) , and is primitive in its functioning . |
| 7 | The development is adjacent to the lands of the Kugapakori Indians , most of whom are uncontacted and therefore vulnerable to disease brought in by project workers . |