Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 2 | I do n't think he knows what he 's giving me 'cos you 're just as addicted to them as you are to smack . |
| 3 | Because the real problem , Rory , my sweet , is that you 're just as attracted to him as he is to you . ’ |
| 4 | The Iveco cuts — at Langley , Berks — will mean the hourly-paid workforce has been more than halved to 660 since June , 1990 , union chiefs said . |
| 5 | We are still as committed to the leukaemia unit as we always have been . ’ |
| 6 | The Stop the M12 group is also opposed to upgrading the A12 , fearing this would be just as damaging to the environment . |
| 7 | Second , because its hidden curriculum can be just as undermining to our real intentions as that of the former withdrawal system . |
| 8 | The latter are quite as real as the former , may have equally far-reaching results and can be just as limiting to the quality of life in the individual concerned . |
| 9 | Do n't matter where … but it 'ud be best if th'took to prizefighting . |
| 10 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 11 | One young woman is still as attached to her parents now as she was when she was small . |
| 12 | And yet there is here , as with so many issues surrounding Karajan 's work and reputation , the wider question of the degree to which we hear what is there as opposed to what we imagine is there . |
| 13 | There was more than comfort to be found in the house at Ladbroke Grove ; there was employment . |
| 14 | She had n't envied those girls until now ; she stole a look at Roman and admitted to herself that she was more than attracted to him . |
| 15 | I was seriously considering going to India to become a monk but I never got round to it ! ’ |