Example sentences of "[pers pn] be to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been to these places with Chris ? |
| 2 | Have you been to any castles ? |
| 3 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 4 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 5 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 6 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 7 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 8 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 9 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |
| 10 | Depending on how close it is to successful neighbours and the risk of root disturbance , grub the rootstock out . |
| 11 | Blue larkspur against a table-slip of faded mauve velvet , oh ! how unutterably delicious it is to tired eyes For half-a-crown , one of those gigantic glazed brown earthenware jugs ( filled with cream ) and for 5 ½d. each half a dozen tiny ones to match . |
| 12 | Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD . |
| 13 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |
| 14 | It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse . |
| 15 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 16 | It is to these chapters that we turn for biblical guidance on the fundamental questions concerning God , man and the world . |
| 17 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 18 | This is an important result because it is to these industries that regional policy has been primarily applied . |
| 19 | It is to these factors , rather than to artillery itself , that we should turn if we wish to see which arms were proving to be of the greatest significance in the war . |
| 20 | Segmented labour market theories help to explain the disadvantaged position of women and ethnic minorities in employment , and it is to these groups that we now turn . |
| 21 | It is to these questions that I now turn . |
| 22 | It is to these questions that we turn in the next section . |
| 23 | It is to these experiences of unemployment and social security that we now turn . |
| 24 | It is to these aspects that we shall now turn . |
| 25 | It is to these triumphs , some of which could be made intelligible to laymen while others remained obscure , that we shall now turn , looking first at the discoveries rather than at their reception outside the scientific community . |
| 26 | It is to these ideas that we turn first . |
| 27 | These two views of style evidently concern the general properties of literary language more than the individual features of authors or texts , whereas it is to these features that the stylistics of representation and manner both give their attention . |
| 28 | It is to these struggles that we now turn . |
| 29 | It is to these issues that the rest of the book is devoted . |
| 30 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |