Example sentences of "[prep] [be] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 3 | We dedicate this cross to be to all a symbol of his suffering and his victory . |
| 4 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 5 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 6 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 7 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 8 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 9 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |