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You are apt to be forgetful.
The rich are apt to look down on people.
Nowadays we are apt to forget the benefits of nature.
Those who are delicate in health are apt to catch a cold when the cold season sets in.
The anarchist is apt to lose his temper.
Snow is apt to fall in Chicago in late November.
This kind of shoe is apt to slip on wet ground.
It is apt to get either cloudy or windy when the cherry-blossoms are in full bloom.
We are apt to make mistakes.
My son is apt to be absent from school.
When we are in good health, we are apt to forget its value.
One is apt to forget his own faults.
The rich are apt to look down upon the poor.
We are apt to waste time.
That path is apt to be muddy after rain.
We are apt to watch television, irrespective of what program is on.
We are apt to forget this fact.
Practice is as important as theory, but we are apt to value the latter and despise the former.
Young people are apt to waste time.
Some people are apt to think of their own way of life as the normal one and to look down on life-styles that differ from it.
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Here's where I'm apt to earn my fare back to Seattle.
As long as the trails are open, some prospector is apt to discover this creek.
Susan, where's he apt to go?
George is apt to go anywhere. - No.
You're north of Front Street. and that jail's apt to be a little crowded.
It's apt to be in the lowest konky-tonk, konk, tonky.
Tracy sets exceptionally high standards for herself, that's all and other people aren't always quite apt to live up to them.
They're apt to give instructions to me. What do you say, Miss Bingley?
Mr. Bernstein is apt to pay a visit to the nursery now and then. Does he have to?
They're apt to be slightly narrow-minded, these righteous people.
Anybody's apt to trip. - Not over a sofa.
You can't tell what kind of a heel is apt to be behind the wheel.
You're so simple, you're apt to get into trouble.
In a concentration camp, one is apt to lose a little weight.
I sometimes think, Sir Charles that a great government resembles a beautiful woman who, intoxicated with her own beauty is apt to withdraw from a sincere suitor the favors she's always granted.
There is apt to be a terrible fight.
George is apt to go anywhere.
Remember, though, that if you stay here, you're very apt to stay here.
You're north of Front Street here, and that jail's apt to be a little crowded.
There's apt to be a fracas here, and just let us men handle it.
Children who are not handled are apt to become precocious.
It's apt to be that way for quite a while yet.
I'm apt to keep you awake, honey.
Mr. Bernstein is apt to pay a visit to the nursery now and then.
Anybody's apt to trip.
Hard things are apt to get broken.
Jumping claims. Apt to get you in a lot of trouble someday.
Someday you're apt to get your block knocked off.
Don't get tough with Slim. She's apt to slap you back.
It was very apt to mean murder.
News and current affairs
Berlin today is vibrant and rejuvenated, rebuilt by the German peoples' hard work and sacrifice to unify the country, and an apt setting for the conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which I was there to attend.
When they are high, they are apt to crowd out investments in manufactures and other, non-traditional tradables.
Climate evangelism is an apt description of what the IPCC has been up to, for it has exaggerated some of the ramifications of climate change in order to make politicians take note.
A more apt analogy popular in Egypt compares Mubarak to Leonid Brezhnev, who for two decades presided over the Soviet Union's stagnation and decline.
England once again provides an apt illustration.
While we may talk about the G-7, or G-8, or G-20, the more apt description is G-0.
The analogy is apt.
Cultural barriers are apt to distort what is heard.
A provocative analogy, but is it apt?
His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic.
WASHINGTON, DC - A recent front-page photo in the New York Times of a boatload of Syrian refugees drifting on the Mediterranean Sea beneath an enormous setting sun could not have been more apt.
The analogy is all too apt today.
His warning seems more apt than ever.
The necessary outcome, as first divined by Charles Darwin, was the selection of those lineages most apt to survive and, especially, produce progeny under existing conditions.
The former is more apt: Venter's creation is evolutionary, not revolutionary.
It is an apt metaphor for the situation in which the US and China now find themselves: on a planet in the process of being dangerously warmed by our own runaway progress.
As workers' consciousness of their rights increases, they are gradually more and more apt to appeal grievances to the courts: from 1995 to 2001, adjudicated labor disputes rose from 28,000 to 101,000.