Example sentences of "[noun] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 2 | And at the end does these all words are to given to and insert the redevelopment site for long term employment . |
| 3 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 4 | In such circumstances , the recommended course of action is to mass-produce module headers that contain only the minimum information required . |
| 5 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 6 | It 'll be lovely , it 's tomorrow , seven thirty at the Festival Hall , Kirkby in Ashfield , all the proceeds are to local charities and the admission is two pounds fifty , and that includes refreshments . |
| 7 | More work is to said to be needed to find out exactly how smoking damages the lens of the eye . |
| 8 | So the drinkwise toast is to good health ! |
| 9 | The toast is to Rotary the world over . |
| 10 | Possibly the reference is to German flutes , those of the now universal variety blown through a hole at the side instead of through the upper end . |
| 11 | Basically it consists in a failure in the ego by means of which inner , subjective sensations become confused with those originating in the outside world — an observation which reveals how close projection is to thoroughgoing hallucination ( with which it is , of course , frequently allied in paranoia ) . |
| 12 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 13 | In each case , Liberia in 1971 , Kenya in 1979 , and Botswana in 1980 , the transfer was to existing vice-presidents . |
| 14 | The window was to high up to be reached by the captive , though the could poke her head out to be fed . |
| 15 | The reference to a Pacific pact was to developing contacts between Rhee , Chiang Kai-shek and President Quirino of the Philippines to encourage the formation of an anti-communist front to be guaranteed by the United States . |
| 16 | The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun . |
| 17 | But the real losses in princely revenues were to secular lords , by a process of slow attrition . |
| 18 | A disproportionate number of visits in the late evening were to young children . |
| 19 | While most objections are to serious thinking what veneer is to seasoned wood , some — I have in mind objections that some feminists bring against the idea of animal rights in particular and the notion of rights in general — deserve a serious hearing and patient exploration . |
| 20 | And he also insisted that the crisis is to deep that there have to be important changes at the top within the union : ‘ There must be less politics , more work … |
| 21 | For motorists who intend to travel west by road on N3 to Zurich or beyond , a short side-trip is to -be recommended . |
| 22 | This new corporate shift is to female values but it involves men — but men thinking in a new , more conscious way . ’ |
| 23 | Relating support proportionately to the severity of handicap , it may be suggested , is a nonsense in agricultural terms but the object of the LFA Directive is to stern rural depopulation and conserve the countryside by supporting farming . |
| 24 | My alternative account , a minimal one , seeks among other things to give fewer hostages than Brentano 's to philosophical fortune , or anyway to philosophical doubt . |
| 25 | The point was to liven things up . |
| 26 | One of the first major presentations of the results of the first phase of the initiative was to senior staff of the Children 's Division and the Social Services Inspectorate of the DHSS . |
| 27 | He was soon making explicit , too , a fundamental teleological analogy , in which changing conditions are to sexual generation as sexual crossing is to asexual generation . |
| 28 | The pressure must be adequate , however if good contact is to achieved . |
| 29 | I AM a fan and an observer of dogs and before the avalanche descends on me I must shout that , like Chris Joyce , our US Editor , I am well aware of the case against dogs but also know that the relationship is to human advantage rather than the other way round . |
| 30 | It has meant an ascetic existence for Wilson , who is to protest politics what the Hackney cab is to public transport . |