Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 2 | Sending your customers broke is of little help to anyone . |
| 3 | The foreign policy issues on which the left fought were of great importance to the activists but of relatively little salience to the mass of the working class , while nationalisation had faded in popularity — quite understandably , given the failure to develop a popular democratic alternative to conventional managerial practice in the nationalised industries , and to develop a coherent set of criteria for allocating resources with which to counter the charge that they were ‘ inefficient loss-makers ’ . |
| 4 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 5 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 6 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 7 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 8 | Their increase in money wages had been from 21s 9d to 36s ( £1.08 — £1.80 ) , an increase of 66 per cent . |
| 9 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |