Example sentences of "[be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Georgian case was as close as could be to straight annexation , without the pretext of disorder ( although the Turkish army remained an important threat ) . |
| 32 | This effect may be to due a different RNA secondary structure affecting the accessibility of the internal AUG codons . |
| 33 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 34 | They were not really in control , apart from about a 5 minute spell where their passes did all seem be to controlled . |
| 35 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 36 | He is not be to confused with our human parents , as Freud and others have neurotically identified him . |
| 37 | If you wish to switch to a new scheme , this could either be to another company scheme or to a personal pension . |
| 38 | An undated letter from John Howard to the duke of Norfolk , which can probably be assigned to 1469 , assured Norfolk of Gloucester 's good will : ‘ I did remember your lordship to my lord , promising you I found my lord as well disposed toward you as any lord may be to another … whereof I was right glad to hear it . ’ |
| 39 | An undated letter from John Howard to the duke of Norfolk , which can probably be assigned to 1469 , assured Norfolk of Gloucester 's good will : ‘ I did remember your lordship to my lord , promising you I found my lord as well disposed toward you as any lord may be to another … whereof I was right glad to hear it . ’ |
| 40 | One way to determine this would be to old an ordinary ruler at arms length and note how many millimetres the width of an object appears to occupy . |
| 41 | The exportation of ‘ corporate crime ’ will normally be to Third World countries which , because they are more dependent upon capital , have fewer resources to check manufacturer 's claims or police corporate activities , and because their officials are more susceptible to corruption are less likely to circumvent corporate behaviour . |
| 42 | He says that it should n't be to difficult , just time consuming . |
| 43 | These trees were planted by the , from the public purse but they are likely to be harvested by private owners , so I 'm not particularly be to happy about that . |
| 44 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 45 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 46 | In future , however , I suspect it will be to this fine disc that I shall be looking when I want to hear this sunny and enchanting score . |
| 47 | It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives . |
| 48 | but he said er , the man said , and I do n't , now I 'll see what yo your reaction will be to this . |
| 49 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 50 | However distasteful it may be to some people , this does at least provide a rational explanation for the behaviour of those bystanders , even if it does not excuse them . |
| 51 | A widower can become something of a ‘ cause ’ to those living in the same street or block of flats , whereas a widow , although not shunned , may be to some extent avoided by all but the most caring individuals in the early days of her bereavement . |
| 52 | Information about shape and size will of course be to some extent writer dependent . |
| 53 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 54 | He acknowledges that precisely what rules of property there should be is undetermined by this ‘ general requirement of justice ’ and he also concedes that the choice of rules will be to some extent arbitrary . |
| 55 | There is no good reason why that traditional understanding should now be abandoned , however inconvenient it may be to some of those who would otherwise like to shelter under the umbrella of the term " democracy " . |
| 56 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 57 | There is some evidence ( by no means conclusive ) to indicate that the " hyper-male " situation ( XYY ) may be to some extent associated with aggressive tendencies and the XXY or XXXX situation with ultra.femininity . |
| 58 | I have just indicated one way in which criticism centred on the theory dependence of observation can be to some extent evaded by the inductivists , and I am convinced that they will be able to think of further ingenious defences . |
| 59 | When you went ashore it would be to some pub . |
| 60 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |