Example sentences of "be [noun] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colonial merchants might not like the English monopoly of trade , but they wanted their markets in England , so there was unlikely to be opposition to the general principles of the Acts of Trade . |
| 2 | The London Stock Exchange requires that where the authority to buy-in shares relates to specific proposals , the circular to shareholders must state the names of the shareholders who will be parties to the proposed contract , together with all other material terms of the proposal ( para 30.4 , Chapter 2 , Section 5 of the Yellow Book ) . |
| 3 | If it ever gets them , it will probably be thanks to the Geographic Targeting Taskforce , a local activists ' group that is now beginning to make an impact on the area . |
| 4 | Wright replies that built into her schedule will be visits to a favourite retreat house in Edinburgh — ‘ to recharge my batteries ’ . |
| 5 | Hullavington will be home to the new Royal Logistic Corps — these support staff are preparing to fly out to Bosnia . |
| 6 | There should be reference to the social housing and the cross subsidy housing and the hospital at in the new plan . |
| 7 | The new VAX 10000 systems , claimed to be alternatives to the conventional mainframe , have one to four CPUs , optimised input-output and battery back-up . |
| 8 | She has agreed to be patron to the London-based Centrepoint project , which helps take vulnerable young people off London streets . |
| 9 | Because we are dealing with what purport to be exceptions to a general principle , it is sometimes argued that there is no single legal principle of justification , merely a number of disparate responses to the specific factual and legal details of a particular case.13 Alternatively , a general principle of justification is advanced and given the name of ‘ necessity ’ or ‘ privilege ’ or some kind of ‘ comprehensive justification in relation to medical procedures ’ . |
| 10 | At both national and local levels trends can be analysed not only within churches and denominations , but across denominations , to learn from those who appear to be exceptions to the general rule . |
| 11 | Most two-syllable verbs that seem to be exceptions to the above might be interpreted as being morphologically complex ( e.g. ‘ permit ’ = ‘ per ’ + ‘ mit ’ ) , or we could simply list all such verbs as exceptions . |
| 12 | Having displayed in this clear format what has been happening , you will then be able to interpret the general trend , and raise questions regarding those years which proved to be exceptions to the overall picture . |
| 13 | As noted above , there can be exceptions to the vertical aggregate supply curve when changes are unanticipated . |
| 14 | To make such fraud more difficult a new electoral roll was to be compiled , new voter identification safeguards were to be produced , there was to be access to the electoral commission 's computers at the time of counting , and disputes were to be settled by an electoral court . |
| 15 | The discovery of the meaning of the family name may be news to the other side . |
| 16 | I 'm to be governess to a little boy in Edinburgh , and you 're to take charge of an antique loony in Penzance . |
| 17 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 18 | If by some aberration … as was Jimmy Carter … the sitting President is upset , Augusta National would again be host to the chief executive . |
| 19 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 20 | Dallas , Texas-based Saber Software Corp has licensed a subset of the Saber Menu System for MS-DOS , to Novell Inc , which will include the Saber Menu Language in NetWare v4.0 , so it will be goodbye to the old Novell Menu utility MENU.EXE . |
| 21 | It is the NACAB , which continues : ’ It is financially highly inefficient and imprisoning people because of their financial vulnerability should be anathema to a humane society . ’ |
| 22 | This would be anathema to the Anglo-American tradition of business accounting , but would fit with the Continental European tradition . |
| 23 | The MDP leader M. Ensayhan , however , insisted that the opposition forces must now unite and " never allow our representatives to be hostages to the old system " . |
| 24 | The announcement that Guy was to be godfather to the new baby brought her to her senses with a sharp jolt . |
| 25 | Nor , indeed is the requirement in Part I for separate disclosure of the amounts of charitable or political donations ; in view of the minimal amounts needed to trigger this requirement and the modest amounts normally donated , they would very rarely be material to a true and fair view of its financial affairs . |
| 26 | Lévi-Strauss is not interested in what it means to be party to a maternal-uncle type of kinship relationship . |
| 27 | A serious escalation in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the end of April and in early May was accompanied by accusations from the Armenian leadership that the Soviet authorities were openly siding with the Azerbaijanis , as a reward for Azerbaijan 's decision the week before to be party to the new Union Treaty , and as punishment for Armenia 's independence drive . |
| 28 | Who would ever have believed that Lucille , Vicomtesse de Seleglise and widow of Colonel Xavier Castineau , would be mother to a half-English bastard ? |