Example sentences of "[adj] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 32 | She is different , yes , but we see that difference as a uniqueness peculiar to her . |
| 33 | The second method was more peculiar to Morgan and was to be the source of many controversies in his time . |
| 34 | Writing shortly after the end of the war , Roger Manvell spoke of a ‘ cinematic poetry peculiar to British films ’ while Dilys Powell suggested that the films made during the war had ‘ set the English film on the path in which masterpieces may be created . ’ |
| 35 | However , this is the 3-inch drive peculiar to Amstrad products , and you would be better off paying the extra £35 for a discount Atari ST . |
| 36 | It is not typically East Anglian but for its black glazed pantiles on the roof which are peculiar to Norfolk . |
| 37 | The house is built of rock-faced sandstone which is of the deepest pink , peculiar to this area , and its roofs are of patterned slate . |
| 38 | Thus , the abstract ‘ idea ’ of ‘ man ’ , what Locke calls a nominal essence , differs from that of ‘ Peter ’ and ‘ Paul ’ 'in the leaving out something , that is peculiar to each individual ; and retaining so much of those particular complex ideas , of several particular existences , as they are found to agree in . ’ |
| 39 | The way in which ritual develops — or rather is developed — and the characteristics which it assumes , reflect the ordering and preoccupations peculiar to a society . |
| 40 | A smell peculiar to that place assailed his nostrils with its pungency . |
| 41 | Indeed , the cathedral monastery , like Canterbury or Durham , was something peculiar to England in the Middle Ages . |
| 42 | ‘ These fifteenth-century chests with their incised shell pattern are peculiar to Møn — I 've not been able to discover any on the other islands . |
| 43 | Communal life survived until the beginning of the nineteenth century and traditions peculiar to that way of life had lingered into the present . |
| 44 | It will be of value to itemise those aspects peculiar to that situation , and for convenience I divide them into ‘ helps ’ and ‘ hindrances ’ : |
| 45 | By Christmas 1942 I had settled down pretty well at B.P. I had made friends and was enjoying the camaraderie that was peculiar to wartime organisations . |
| 46 | The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general . |
| 47 | The few useful studies that exist usually include factors that might be peculiar to one country , or society . |
| 48 | But whether this is peculiar to muscle , or whether other master genes will be found , remains to be discovered . |
| 49 | Such a revolution in the perceived role of the imagination , a faculty not peculiar to ‘ arts ’ subjects but common to all , is central to educational reform , and is , indeed , the most urgently needed change . |
| 50 | Several warehouses and other buildings display the architectural style peculiar to the district in the nineteenth century . |
| 51 | Where the A625 road from Hathersage to Sheffield crosses one of the ‘ edges ’ peculiar to the Peak District , just before reaching the Yorkshire border , the keen explorer may find heaps of unfinished millstones in the undergrowth . |
| 52 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |
| 53 | Jack Peach had a sense of humour peculiar to himself . |
| 54 | William Coningham , Liberal MP for Brighton , declared that Gothic was a barbarous style , ‘ peculiar to a sect of which the hon. |
| 55 | The road was very pleasant , and nice peeps were opened out along the shore , those scenes peculiar to this and neighbouring isles ; long flat stretches of heath and sand , and lines of cliff ; and in the pearliest hues the mountains of the north-west of Scotland graced their glowing setting of sunlit cloud and sun-reflecting sea , while the ether was embalmed in shades that partook of many emerald rays . |
| 56 | As an age-group , a stage of life , adolescents stood , clearly visible , defined and itemized , the embodiment of so many of the tensions and contradictions peculiar to the period , without which they would never have been ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 57 | Citizenship as a subject of discussion was not peculiar to the early twentieth century , but it occupied a special place in the strategy of the boy labour group , and other reformers , in solving the problems posed by working-class adolescence . |
| 58 | Turtle Graphics are not peculiar to LOGO . |
| 59 | These genes hold the information needed to make many structural proteins and enzymes peculiar to the virus . |
| 60 | That the fauna seems unusually rich , is a product of detailed investigation , rather than an attribute peculiar to this one patch of land . |