Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adj] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
| 2 | It is therefore quite possible that two cells in a daughter will be more distant relatives of one another than either is to cells in the parent plant . |
| 3 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 4 | It is the utopian dream of a Christian heresy and to see it as anything less than that is to totally misunderstand it . |
| 5 | I did n't feel it was worthwhile to make an effort in England any more if this was to be the result of my first exposure in England since Robert Fraser collapsed . |