Example sentences of "[being] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you are a real artist , you give your whole being to your art . |
| 32 | I love making , I love doing , I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart . |
| 33 | Something I wrote on Nov. 7th — ‘ I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching . ’ |
| 34 | But I 'm not being to the full at all . |
| 35 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 36 | Sir William Temple [ q.v. ] described his principal aims as being to ‘ secure the business of religion ’ and ‘ break the war with Holland ’ . |
| 37 | In particular , it is often said that indirect taxes are less visible ( than direct ) , being to some extent hidden in the quoted price of the good . |
| 38 | But by integrating these theories with their version of structural linguistics , they developed them in a very important direction : they placed them within a semiotic or semiological framework , semiotics and semiology being to all intents and purposes interchangeable terms . |
| 39 | If adults are not able to travel far to attend courses , any reduction in the range of courses in terms of subject content , levels ( eg HNC , degree ) and modes of study provided in a geographical area could result in some subjects being to all intents and purposes inaccessible to adults . |
| 40 | She 'd become accustomed to his remarks about her unwanted presence , but she had believed him to be resigned for the time being to having her around . |
| 41 | As Sabah said that an agreement with France would soon follow , the aim being to " guarantee peace and security in the region , be it through the storage of weapons and military equipment in Kuwait , as is the case with the agreement with the USA , or the articles in the agreement signed with Britain which make stipulations on helping to build , organize and train the Kuwaiti army " . |
| 42 | The Church was the essence of being to Medieval peoples whether in town or village . |
| 43 | But they did n't realise how racist they were being to me . |
| 44 | Some of the barbarian federates are known to have understood their loyalty as being to Valentinian ; his death , therefore , absolved them from any treaty with the Empire . |
| 45 | Philosophers like Plato and Plotinus believed that the longing for this knowledge is innate in the human soul which had itself emanated , albeit to the furthest possible extent , from the source of all being to which it longs to return . |
| 46 | provided widespread concessions for small distilleries and special deals for certain spirits producers , none of these being to the advantage of Scotch . |
| 47 | ‘ He was weight-weakened for the Lampkin defeat , so it was a case of being to heavy for that fight , and too light when he lost to Lewis . ’ |
| 48 | Oh yeah , but we well she 's gon na change it , d' ya know when you update it you know they bring it back down with all the different words that , that 's being to the the , the , the , the dialect , not the dialect , the the vocabulary they , they 've , they 've got in America . |
| 49 | For natural selection acts by either now adapting the various parts of each being to its conditions of life , or by having adapted them during long past periods of time ’ . |