Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] be to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My back was to the wind which whistled coldly in the wire frame of my spectacles and cracked the loose folds of my robe . |
| 2 | I am an accountant , I have been called in by the bank , and my duty is to the bank . |
| 3 | Their responsibility is to the management of the firm and their task is to assess the internal control systems of the organization . |
| 4 | ‘ They saw and heard nothing ; their room is to the back . ’ |
| 5 | If you have doubts about the quality of a witness work out how important their evidence is to the issues in the case . |
| 6 | While he rose in stature , the Ward Development Company suffered crippling misfortunes , until now its back was to the wall , and Esther Ward was a desperate woman . |
| 7 | Dorsal views of the embryos in which rostral is to the top . |
| 8 | Normally they did n't like to sanction a digs so far away from the city and the university buildings , but Mrs Hegarty had been quick to explain how near her house was to the railway station , how short was the train journey into town , how good the bracing sea air . |
| 9 | Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water . |
| 10 | It has allowed itself to be outsmarted by governments who are not afraid to bend the rules in their favour , aided and abetted by American multi-nationals whose allegiance is to the United States , naturally . |
| 11 | Here it will be the valley whose opening is to the west , of Cauterets . |
| 12 | His back was to the window and he did not turn to spare a glance at the crush of the zeks who squirmed against the grime of the windows . |
| 13 | His back was to the waterway . |
| 14 | His devotion is to the destruction of ignorance ; his credo is ‘ hastened evolution ’ or , in popular terms , ‘ nature must be given a helping hand ’ . |
| 15 | In the final analysis of course , if your back is to the wall and you have to fight , then that is also self-defence . |
| 16 | ‘ Our road 's to the right . ’ |