Example sentences of "be a [noun] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 2 | The echinoderms are a phylum closely allied to the Chordates — including the vertebrates , and both phyla probably have a common ancestor in the Precambrian . |
| 3 | It should be a situation perfectly suited to Mr Morton 's Rottweiler style of management . |
| 4 | Here were a team either playing to a manager 's orders and failing woefully , or simply not playing for him . |
| 5 | Yes , there 's a bit more plastering to be done yet . |
| 6 | erm I do n't think our culture is the worst that 's ever been and I think there 's a tendency sometimes to try to sort of overstate that . |
| 7 | Jim , there 's a letter here addressed to Mrs S do you think it must be Shirley ? |
| 8 | ‘ There is a servant now to attend to all that . ’ |
| 9 | The need to educate people , both to use deep-fat fryers properly and to clean and filter oil regularly , is a factor also referred to by sales and marketing director for Garland Catering Equipment , Keith Davies . |
| 10 | Held over two days , each country entering one athlete per event , it is a competition well suited to the need to keep Britain established as the third-strongest athletic nation in Europe and the fourth in the world . |
| 11 | The United States argued in the context of Suez that there is a user right appertaining to all users of the Canal , including , presumably , potential users . |
| 12 | Ozone is a gas closely related to oxygen . |
| 13 | Skymaster , let us remember , is a service specifically offered to the General Aviation pilot . |
| 14 | It is a position often linked to existentialist religious writers and particularly to the Danish thinker of the early nineteenth century , often regarded as the founding father of existentialism , Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 15 | As we shall discuss in the next chapter , there is a lot more work to be done before the causal process underlying this relationship is laid bare : we do not know whether it is through buying a better diet or better medical care , for example , that richer countries improve their life expectancy . |
| 16 | At all levels of the game intelligence is a commodity solely restricted to managers . |
| 17 | But within that list is a shoe perfectly matched to your needs . |
| 18 | At Freiston Shore there is a hostelry well known to bird watchers where they do a Root pub lunch … |
| 19 | Stokesley , indeed , possessing neither trade nor manufacturers , has no appearance of bustle or business , and is a place well adapted to retirement . ’ |
| 20 | Java Moss , Vesicularia dubyana is a moss more suited to tropical temperatures . |
| 21 | ‘ There was a lady once came to his house . |
| 22 | It was a question often put to her ; she was careful not to let the answer sound too glib . |
| 23 | It was a machine particularly suited to the fast production of newspapers , and as has already been noted , women were not employed in the composition of daily papers , largely because of the Factory Acts . |
| 24 | He had always felt that tailoring was a job more suited to women than to men . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |
| 26 | On a hot summer 's day this was a punishment more suited to the Foreign Legion than to an English preparatory school . |
| 27 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |