Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However bitter you may feel about it , the properties were entailed and I am the heir to them , like it or not . ’ |
| 2 | Maximum production has been the slogan to which we have all adhered . |
| 3 | We have provided comics , magazines , records and cassettes ; we have installed comfortable seating and modern furniture , and have laid on numerous events and activities : we have been successful in updating our image , but one of the consequences of our success has been the degree to which we have attracted the rowdier elements of the local youth . |
| 4 | A feature of recent years has been the degree to which the differing agencies — HMI , the DES , Further Education Unit , and NBHS ( now renamed Skill : National Bureau for Students with Disabilities ) have worked together . |
| 5 | The main area for discussion has been the extent to which there should be close day-to-day supervision of television and radio . |
| 6 | One of the most notable and significant aspects of the more complex societies which emerged in the course of modern history has been the extent to which social life has been moulded by associations of private persons concerned with promoting a wide range of activities from local government , education , the professions , the arts and sports to a widening area of hobbies and pursuits . |
| 7 | For , as we shall see , one of the most obvious effects of the myth of judicial independence on sentencing practice over the years has been the extent to which sentencers have been left to police themselves according to their own rules arid principles . |
| 8 | Yet a key theme in discussions of relationships between ministers and their departments has been the extent to which politicians enter with apparent policy commitments but become socialized into roles determined by the permanent administrator and particularly by the need for ‘ policy maintenance ’ within their department . |
| 9 | A major worry has been the extent to which the newly structured capital market has drawn in scarce resources , notably graduates who are paid salaries far beyond their opportunity cost . |
| 10 | The privatisation programme has been an enormous success in recent years and not the least part of that success has been the extent to which it has widened and deepened share ownership around the country . |
| 11 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 12 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 13 | These are the questions to which the series is addressed . |
| 14 | To what then is the human psychobiological system adapted and what are the limits to which it can adjust without an excessive strain leading ultimately to reduced reproductive ability ? |
| 15 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 16 | Erm , both erm experts are to give evidence before and my Lord included in this bundle with their reports are the documents to which either one or both of these experts have in guard when preparing their reports . |
| 17 | L 178 , p. 5 ) , which , subject to some limited and temporary derogations , provides for the total abolition of ‘ restrictions on movements of capital taking place between persons resident in member states ’ ( article 1 ) , including ‘ direct investments on national territory by non-residents ’ and ‘ acquisition by non-residents of domestic securities not dealt in on a stock exchange ’ ( see points I.A. and III.A. 3 of Annex I to the Directive ) , which are the operations to which the Commission expressly refers . |
| 18 | ‘ Here are the keys to your room . |
| 19 | We had an enormous response to the quiz we set you , but before we announce the winners , here are the answers to our four questions . |
| 20 | The other two factors are the degree to which it is easy to enter the industry or market , and the degree to which there are substitutes for the products . |
| 21 | The important factors in a regulatory system are the degree to which such practices can be limited ( with the proviso that no system can totally eliminate fraud ) , and secondly , when a fraud does occur or is occurring , the speed with which the regulatory system can detect it and put a stop to it . |
| 22 | What are the limitations to our analysis which are inherent in the accounting data we are using ? |
| 23 | Q. What are the benefits to me of paying by Direct Debit ? |
| 24 | My Lord er those er in essentially are the matters to which erm I wanted to draw your Lordship 's attention in . |
| 25 | In neither case are the conditions to which the product may be subjected precisely known . |
| 26 | Science progresses by learning which similarities are the key to which sequences . |
| 27 | Applications are the key to its eventual success . |
| 28 | In fact they are the key to our survival — and our planet 's future . |
| 29 | Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers . |
| 30 | Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories . |