Example sentences of "[be] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What is remarkable is how impervious a government can be to changing public opinion when insulated from the threat of political defeat by a substantial parliamentary majority .
2 Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people .
3 More than a third of sales would be to Labour voters , another third to Alliance or Tory ( 12 per cent ) , and the rest to people who could not say which party they supported .
4 The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong .
5 Nought , six , six , so it 's gon na be to two decimal places it 's gon na be
6 If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied .
7 Other publications emanating from official enquiries , such as the French National Assembly 's postwar investigation of the events of the 1930s , may without being corrupt , nevertheless reflect special interests and be to that extent unrepresentative .
8 We must allay those fears for both Devonport and Rossythe and Neil , can we have an update and what the G M B position will be to that response ?
9 Half-way through the twentieth century it was becoming clear to the more perceptive analysts that , whatever the political limitations might or might not be to that form of growth , there were ecological limitations looming on the horizon .
10 Erm , if you were diagnosed as having cancer , and was intending to be dead in nine months , what would your reaction be to that ?
11 And the angel said unto them , ‘ Fear not , for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people .
12 for behold , I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people .
13 In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences .
14 We dedicate this cross to be to all a symbol of his suffering and his victory .
15 ‘ how committed will the ATB be to part-time farmers in the light of budget restrictions ? ’
16 One more match played under this ridiculous rule would be to many .
17 While you have too much of a good thing , there never seem to be to many cables on a warm sweater but to prevent them becoming overwhelming , they are sometimes improved by crossing each strip over alternatively .
18 But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me .
19 Right , I hope , we wo n't be to long now , perhaps if we could just bring up the item you wanted to mention .
20 The objectives of the research workshops will be to 1 .
21 A recent exchange between young Scottish and French women has demonstrated how adaptable SCOTVEC modules can be to European projects .
22 Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) .
23 Erm beyond two thousand and six , I would have thought the strategic guidance would be in locations other than peripheral expansion around the Greater York area , which I would have suggested would would more than likely be to new settlements .
24 Our advise would be to first speak to your accountants who would be able to talk you through the various options which are :
25 If I send one to grandma , one to you and Amy , and then I 'll write one to grandma Lincolnshire , but I 'll wo n't send it off , it 'll be to expensive wo n't it ?
26 The references can be to other parts of the same book , to another textbook or to your own Shelfold notes ( see chapter 4 ) .
27 This rule can not effectively be pursued if strict mens rea principles are applied , however appropriate these may be to other areas of the criminal law .
28 Even if your reasoning is self-evident to you , it wo n't be to other people , who will come at the issue from a slightly ( or very ) different point of view .
29 Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ .
30 I would hope he wo n't be to late or he 'll be exhausted .
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