Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holden Caulfield , narrator of ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ , and Lucy Snowe , narrator of ‘ Villette ’ , both criticise their societies and acquaintances , and struggle to be true to their own principles despite pressure to conform , |
| 2 | A common desire and willingness to be subordinate to it is the essential pre-condition of a parliamentary state . |
| 3 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |
| 4 | I have always been waiting , all my life , for writing and story-telling to be transparent to me as well ; that moment has arrived … |
| 5 | In most disciplines it is not possible to say exactly when the discipline has achieved sufficient breadth and depth to be able to be considered as a subject in its own right . |
| 6 | Subsequent tests show discrimination between A and C to be superior to that between A and B. |