Example sentences of "they [be] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 2 | ROS walks up to him till they are face to face . ) |
| 3 | And certainly they 're record to date has been better than ours so erm maybe we should |
| 4 | You see they were back to back . |
| 5 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 6 | Both tall men , they were eyeball to eyeball . |
| 7 | They were face to face now . |
| 8 | She crawled along to it , and a moment later they were face to face through a large chink , Tristram grinning , his teeth white and his face sun-darkened , and the sight of him made her feel safe and loved again , as if she had arrived home . |
| 9 | The connection was especially good , almost as if they were face to face , and Zen found himself resentful that he should be deprived of the usual screen of interference on an occasion when he could find nothing to say . |
| 10 | They were face to face . |
| 11 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |