Example sentences of "their [noun] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their influence is yet to be fully evaluated . |
| 2 | Their allegiance was thus to the king , who had appointed them and was the source of their power , and to their followers , for whom they sought offices , titles and pensions , rather than to their colleagues or to any leader amongst them . |
| 3 | Their predecessors are still to be found , sometimes cheaply with those who do not know their true significance and worth . |
| 4 | The IMF identifies fifteen heavily indebted countries including Brazil , Argentina , Chile , and Yugoslavia — most of them are in South and Central America — and their indebtedness is largely to private sector banks through the Euro-currency markets . |
| 5 | Their loyalty was therefore to some profounder vision of Britain than that expressed in mere party politics . |
| 6 | The Romans found the Dalmatian environment congenial , and the traces of their colonisation are still to be found in coastal cities such as Zadar , Šibenik and , above all , Split . |
| 7 | French architectural styles at home , the desirability of French education for Scots abroad , military and economic ties , all combined to produce the feeling that even if a French upbringing for their monarch was only to be countenanced because of the extreme dangers created by the Rough Wooing , it was not unnatural in the way that an English upbringing would have been . |
| 8 | Entirely subjective , their appeal is hardly to the conscious mind , but rather , like music , to the subconscious . ’ |
| 9 | Building societies , for the finance of house building or purchase , grew rapidly and by the end of the century attracted many small investors , but their appeal was rather to tradesmen and the lower-middle class than to manual workers . |