Example sentences of "to [pron] it be a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Householders in Cheltenham though disagree , to them it 's a matter of taste and cost . |
2 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
3 | Mrs Thomas , of Milbank Terrace in Station Town , near Peterlee , said : ‘ To me it is a load of rubbish . |
4 | To me it 's a crock of shit to go out and harmonize with nature on my resin polyurethane surfboard . ’ |
5 | I I do n't think I mean , to me it 's a bit like , dare I say it , pandering to , other outside forces . |
6 | he said to me it 's a bit late to go knocking on windows is n't it , and I was like I did n't say anything I just thought well |
7 | Some people might find that totally wrong and arrogant but to me it 's a philosophy of sport . ’ |
8 | But to me it 's a waste of money , nobody wants any . |
9 | ‘ I do n't know how you feel , but to me it 's not progress , to me it 's an obscenity — successful or not ! |
10 | And he goes to me it was a Boss h you know Boss the , the make , the clothes and the perfume and everything ? |
11 | She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan . |
12 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
13 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
14 | In the interests of the maintenance of international peace and security , Article 35 ( 2 ) of the United Nations Charter allows a non-member to bring a dispute to which it is a party to the attention of either organ of the Organisation , provided it accepts in advance the obligations of the pacific settlement of disputes for the purposes of the dispute . |
15 | ( 16 ) The bidder may require consents for the takeover under existing contracts to which it is a party . |
16 | The USA would vote against any proposed aid or credits from international institutions to which it was a contributor to the states on the list ( Cuba , Iran , Iraq , North Korea , Libya and Syria ) . |
17 | The Irish government , for its part , had insisted that it must be represented throughout any such talks on the grounds that the objective was to produce an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agreement , to which it was a co-signatory . |
18 | The Extent to Which It Was a Self-Appraisal |
19 | The question of how far the report would be a public document remained unanswered and therefore the extent to which it was an accountability exercise was not made clear to staff . |
20 | To you it is a phrase because you 've lived all your life at peace here in Cork . |
21 | Mr Deputy Speaker I have to confess to you it is a matter of some indifference to me as to how many M E Ps were elect elect to the European parliament , er if eighty one is to be the new magic number well so be it . |
22 | I 'm the other spaceman in the world , just second to none it 's a lot fun ! |
23 | And then he said I 'm always here and I do n't know whether he 's supposed to come down or what it is but as I said to him it 's a load of codswallop . |
24 | To him it was a right of way . ’ |
25 | To him it was a right of way . ’ |
26 | I thought he was only joining in to please me , but before long I saw that he was enjoying it too , chiefly I think because to him it was a novelty . |
27 | I thought to myself it 's a pity someone did n't strangle you mate ! |
28 | To myself it 's a matter of well my first reaction was to ask the C I D if they knew the situation between o of , that was my first response actually to when the phone call came in , but I knew very little about . |
29 | ‘ It will require a huge effort and a great deal of concentration , but the attitude of the players is so different now to what it was a year ago , it is not out of the question . ’ |
30 | They call it émissole here , and to us it 's a dogfish . |