Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the committee as a whole wanted to be cautious because as has been said earlier our main prime responsibility must be to those who need rest home or nursing home care and have nobody else to fund them . |
| 2 | This effect may be to due a different RNA secondary structure affecting the accessibility of the internal AUG codons . |
| 3 | One more match played under this ridiculous rule would be to many . |
| 4 | A number of respondents make the point that when the Cadbury proposals refer to NEDs bringing independent judgment to bear on board decisions , the reference should be to independent directors . |
| 5 | It is that the directors ' accountability should be to those who do not direct but who are nevertheless committed to the company . |
| 6 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 7 | The objectives of the research workshops will be to 1 . |
| 8 | but he said er , the man said , and I do n't , now I 'll see what yo your reaction will be to this . |
| 9 | An undated letter from John Howard to the duke of Norfolk , which can probably be assigned to 1469 , assured Norfolk of Gloucester 's good will : ‘ I did remember your lordship to my lord , promising you I found my lord as well disposed toward you as any lord may be to another … whereof I was right glad to hear it . ’ |
| 10 | An undated letter from John Howard to the duke of Norfolk , which can probably be assigned to 1469 , assured Norfolk of Gloucester 's good will : ‘ I did remember your lordship to my lord , promising you I found my lord as well disposed toward you as any lord may be to another … whereof I was right glad to hear it . ’ |
| 11 | More than a third of sales would be to Labour voters , another third to Alliance or Tory ( 12 per cent ) , and the rest to people who could not say which party they supported . |
| 12 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 13 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 14 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 15 | Second call could be to those CHP companies prepared to offer a free initial energy analysis . |
| 16 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 17 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |
| 18 | Moody 's has already said it believes that an independent French central bank and more bank privatisations will make it harder to predict how helpful the French state will be to troubled banks . |
| 19 | What is remarkable is how impervious a government can be to changing public opinion when insulated from the threat of political defeat by a substantial parliamentary majority . |
| 20 | It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives . |
| 21 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 22 | He acknowledges that precisely what rules of property there should be is undetermined by this ‘ general requirement of justice ’ and he also concedes that the choice of rules will be to some extent arbitrary . |
| 23 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 24 | This official would be to public law rather what the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the criminal law . |
| 25 | A recent exchange between young Scottish and French women has demonstrated how adaptable SCOTVEC modules can be to European projects . |
| 26 | But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me . |
| 27 | We must allay those fears for both Devonport and Rossythe and Neil , can we have an update and what the G M B position will be to that response ? |
| 28 | One solution could be to double notes at the octave , but this leads to poor results , as doubled notes become too powerful and upset the chordal equilibrium . |
| 29 | If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied . |
| 30 | I have just indicated one way in which criticism centred on the theory dependence of observation can be to some extent evaded by the inductivists , and I am convinced that they will be able to think of further ingenious defences . |