Example sentences of "[be] to [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-way through the twentieth century it was becoming clear to the more perceptive analysts that , whatever the political limitations might or might not be to that form of growth , there were ecological limitations looming on the horizon . |
| 2 | While you have too much of a good thing , there never seem to be to many cables on a warm sweater but to prevent them becoming overwhelming , they are sometimes improved by crossing each strip over alternatively . |
| 3 | It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I am to some extent on home ground there , ’ she said , reluctantly and not looking at him . |
| 6 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 7 | ‘ After all that we 've been to each other over the years , Dane , darling … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 10 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 11 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 12 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 13 | ‘ And where d' you think you 've been to this time of night ? ’ |
| 14 | Although Frank has been a director of Pearson since nineteen eighty six and those of you been to this meeting in the last few years will have seen him before I 'd like to introduce , ah , Frank to you in his new capacity Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Pearson . |
| 15 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 16 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 17 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 18 | Besides , everyone who matters has already been to some sort of bash at the Natural History Museum ; this is new . |
| 19 | Well , I do n't know cos I have n't been to any meetings for months , not |
| 20 | Had she been to these places with Chris ? |
| 21 | Saying you 've been to those destinations in the U K does n't actually hold the same appeal or esteem . |
| 22 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 23 | Mary is dead , he told himself , and we are to each other for ever what was bearable only in my intuition of its impermanence . |
| 24 | Accordingly section 223(4) provides that , in relation to one that is not , references to its financial year are to any period in respect of which its constitution or the law under which it is established requires a profit and loss account to be made up . |
| 25 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 26 | It is highly likely that interglacial sea levels are represented by marine terraces or raised beaches , but the levels associated with each interglacial are to some extent in dispute . |
| 27 | This means , of course , that life insurance companies , while obviously offering products that are distinct by virtue of their pure insurance element , are to some extent in competition with other intermediaries whose function is mainly to attract savings . |
| 28 | Many bureaus are to some extent in the position of monopsony . |
| 29 | In so far as such doctrines owe anything to economic theory , it is to that body of theorising now encompassed within the term ‘ public choice theory ’ , and particularly to economic models of bureaucracy . |
| 30 | Her adherence to some of the beliefs has been inspired by and is to that extent under some pressure not amounting to undue pressure from her mother . |