Sentence examples for appear prone from inspiring English sources

Different groups appear prone to different types of cancer.

Babies who gain weight too quickly in their first four months appear prone to being overweight later in childhood, a new study reports.

Shopper Rewards appears to have adopted a no-quibble refunds policy, but it is clear many of its "members" aren't aware of what's happened, not least because the firm's emails appear prone to being held in spam filters.

His lot do not appear prone to mutiny, but if they come fifth in the European election (more totemic to EU-enthusiast Lib Dems than to members of the other main parties), that may change.And as for the fox in the hen house, Mr Farage will celebrate particularly if UKIP takes first place in the European results on Sunday evening.

Secondly, tuberculosis HIV-1 co-infected patients in a hospital setting appear prone to acquire drug resistant bacteria such as ESBL and MRSA organisms.

They appear prone to develop adenomatous upper and lower tract dysplastic polyps and cancer.

Offenders who appeared prone to recidivism (in this case those with previous convictions) were more likely to be turned down, as were those who were not in a rehabilitation programme.

The SRS appears prone to ceiling effects in persons followed prospectively after moderate to severe TBI.

In the first months of life the subcortical white matter appears prone to fluid accumulation and cystic change.

The Riata family of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator leads (St Jude Medical, Sylmar, CA) appears prone to a unique failure mechanism whereby the conductor cables wear through the silicone insulation from inside-out and are seen outside the lead body (externalized conductors).

In our experiments Hv1 appeared prone to cleavage by proteases (Figs. 1c and 3a).