Example sentences of "[prep] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No she 'd of been to Salvation Army |
| 2 | if if the stories of are to be believed , and who would doubt him , is that the kind of person that wants as an ambassador in Europe ? |
| 3 | … there is no barrier to be crossed , no mysteriously other kind of being to be met and placated . |
| 4 | Instead the universe has become one-dimensional ; there is no barrier to be crossed , no mysteriously other kind of being to be met and placated . |
| 5 | The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all . |
| 6 | The Church was the essence of being to Medieval peoples whether in town or village . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | What I think we 'll do to start off with is to just put you on one inhaler and see how well you respond and if you only need it ev every now and again we do n't need to do anything else . |
| 9 | The IS curve will shift to the left ( from IS to IS ' ) creating an excess supply of goods and services and an excess supply of labour . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 12 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 13 | The point of Benjamin 's article seems to be to decentre the political , or at least to subject it to test , to remove those making claims for their political correctness from their habitual position of judge and jury : such that the art can , in principle , sort out the politics , and not just vice versa . |
| 14 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 15 | Visits to Lille and visits from such important people as the Duke of Gloucester , the C-in-C , Lord Gort , and the Divisional Commander , a little Major-General called Montgomery who did n't seem to be to the liking of the younger officers . |
| 16 | Slow start but in the end realises ambition to be to blaxpoitation movies what Airplane was to disaster movies . |
| 17 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 18 | The tournament moves to Wembley today and Wright believes that this will prove to be to her advantage because the Perspex court is better suited to her slower style of play . |
| 19 | It is believed to be to a design by Il Pellegrini , although its actual construction was not until a century after the architect 's death . |
| 20 | Palestine was meant to be to the south , beyond Golan , on the West Bank , in Gaza , in Israel itself . |
| 21 | It was to be to Grieg 's ‘ Holberg ’ Suite : ‘ It is all most un-Grieg . |
| 22 | And what good are they going to be to you ? |
| 23 | In 1988 British publishers ' sales were reported as 1,700 million pounds , of which 1,100 million were to individual purchasers , 240 million to ‘ public institutions ’ ( schools , higher education and public libraries ) , and a further 360 million estimated to be to ‘ private institutions ’ ( which include most commercial libraries ) . |
| 24 | The Grand Tour of Italy was like what National Service used to be to the young men of our country . |
| 25 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 26 | Indeed he stated that ‘ urban units seem to be to the process of reproduction what the companies are to the production process ’ ( 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 27 | This allowed a number of questions to be to be formulated from the activity lists ( Fig 11.15 ) for discussion with all those persons in the EPH dealing with financial matters , the answers being noted on a separate formatted sheet . |
| 28 | Lighting columns now have to be to regulation safety standards , and it is hoped that the new lights chosen will be complementary to the street . |
| 29 | Day 1 was planned to be to Biarritz via Jersey and La Rochelle , with Day 2 to Santiago via Asturias on the north coast of Spain . |
| 30 | Current policy seems to be to ‘ go soft ’ on the addicts and concentrate on catching the dealers , yet without customers the dealers would go out of business . |