Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun sg] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money raising by the school for its own purposes or for charity is peripheral to the main business of teaching and learning . |
| 2 | The following are by way of being examples and are not intended to be definitive : ( i ) where the relationship between the debtor and the proposed surety is one in which the real possibility of the exercise of undue influence in any of its well recognised forms or of misrepresentation is present to the knowledge of the creditor , the creditor must take notice of the position and act reasonably in the circumstances : see per Dillon L.J . |
| 3 | In those places where stock is kept out in winter , undrained grassland is unusable during floods , and in summer is susceptible to trampling by animals , and so supports less stock than drained pasture . |
| 4 | Concepts such as ’ semantically correct ’ and ’ semantically incorrect ’ remain somewhat contentious , and in practice are inessential to the text recognition problem : the measure of success is not found in adherence to some formal semantic proof but simply the ability to choose the same word as a human observer would . |
| 5 | Leopards are after all quite as at home in the treetops as they are and on occasion are partial to monkey . |