Example sentences of "and be to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation . |
| 2 | Although post-Stalin leaders are more flexible about many things , that expectation survives in large measure and is to a fair degree born out by results . |
| 3 | The FIS and IS in this passage can equally be understood as " narrative report of speech act " ( NRSA ) ( Leech and Short 1981 : 323 – 4 ) which is a mode of speech summary less faithful than FIS and IS to the actual verbal structure of the original ; and the ambiguity is amplified by the suggestion in the third sentence that Rousseau 's text autonomously " yields " information without intervention from a critic — a sentence which could also be considered as a form of NRSA . |
| 4 | Thus the pillbox garrison was immune to normal shell and machine-gun fire and was to a certain extent protected from the weather . |
| 5 | This was a splendid late flowering of the ‘ Orientalist ’ style , and was to the British in India what the Spanish mission-station style was to the United States . |