Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am frozen half to death — and all for a servant , if you please ! |
| 2 | I am little comfort to her , but in this scenario little things mean a lot . |
| 3 | As the House knows , I am parliamentary adviser to the Police Federation of England and Wales . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm encouraging people to diversity , so I 've got to let them know what the pitfalls are . ’ |
| 5 | I was force-marched back to the retiring chamber , Benjamin and the cardinal trooping behind us . |
| 6 | He looked past her , his expression withdrawn and distant in the way she disliked , and when he spoke it was without warmth : ‘ I was personal slave to the Master and as such did personal tasks . ’ |
| 7 | Once , when I was hand-feeding peanuts to six badgers at a sett in the east of England that had been watched and provisioned with food regularly for more than 30 years , the badgers were scared off merely by a distant snapping twig and the far-off murmur of voices . |
| 8 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 9 | Unlike other royal honours which are personal awards to individuals , the Queen 's Award is conferred upon the whole company , recognising the team effort that is necessary to achieve success in exporting . |
| 10 | Similar information can also be acquired using LIFESPAN-PMR and LIFESPAN-PI ( the Project Management Reports and the Procedural Interface Utilities , which are add-on products to LIFESPAN ) . |
| 11 | The use of songs , including ‘ Mrs Robinson ’ and the irrelevant ‘ Scarborough Fair ’ , instead of the usual music score , added to the film 's attraction for young people , and started a never-ending and much-abused spate of movies which are virtual illustrations to albums of pop songs . |
| 12 | Fortunately , two of these ladies , Mme de Carette and the Countess des Garets , have left their memoirs , which are invaluable contributions to the understanding not only of how the Court functioned but also how the Imperial couple lived on a daily basis when they were not on show . |
| 13 | A fibrous cylindrical rhizome produces a rosette of leaves which are dull green to brown , with a stout leaf-stalk . |
| 14 | This is a good argument for it should warn us that there are degrees of potential not all of which are automatic claims to fame . |
| 15 | These figures make IBM a natural target for Japan 's electronics firms , which are relative newcomers to computers but have high aspirations of success . |
| 16 | It is our express hope that through the development of business and language awards we can help to support those organisations which are relative newcomers to competitive world markets . |
| 17 | Although very weak , he was anxious to discuss technical matters , among which were possible revisions to Chapter 6 . |
| 18 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 19 | There is only one competition held each year at Glenrothes , which is insufficient incentive to that highly disciplined side of the sport , and little display or sport aerobating elsewhere . |
| 20 | Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description . |
| 21 | The crystal will only let through light which is polarised perpendicular to a certain axis , called the crystal 's optical axis . |
| 22 | A state which is initially polarised perpendicular to the optical axis is transmitted entirely unscathed , whilst a state which is polarised parallel to the optical axis is totally extinguished . |
| 23 | Consider a photon which is polarised parallel to the optical axis of P , . |
| 24 | We also welcome personal visits to the library , which is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm . |
| 25 | ‘ The factory makes malt for us 24 hours a day using the pure Scottish water in the lake which is next door to the Drambuie factory . ’ |
| 26 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 27 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 28 | Over the years they had become friends of the family and had been granted privileges — one of which was limited entry to the Domain . |
| 29 | Which was fair play to him , but bloody Andrew should have told him ! |
| 30 | All that activity helped the youngsters work up an appetite , which was satisfied thanks to food and sweets provided by McDonalds and the Trebor company . |