Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of these has been prone to takeover bids . |
| 2 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 3 | French producers had demanded that Japan should limit its sales to a maximum of double the number of EC-built cars sold in Japan , the actual ratio in 1988 having been 11 to one . |
| 4 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
| 5 | Evolution of public transport and traffic planning policies in West German cities since 1960 has been subject to continuing scrutiny . |
| 6 | Presenting the 1989 budget to the National Assembly in January 1989 , the Finance Minister , William Hupper , revealed that the public-sector deficit for 1988 had been equivalent to 27 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , and that inflation had risen to 50,000 per cent . |