Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 British publishers ' sales were reported as 1,700 million pounds , of which 1,100 million were to individual purchasers , 240 million to ‘ public institutions ’ ( schools , higher education and public libraries ) , and a further 360 million estimated to be to ‘ private institutions ’ ( which include most commercial libraries ) . |
| 2 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 3 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 4 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 5 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |