Example sentences of "[pron] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 2 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 3 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 4 | ‘ Any notion whom I 'm to special ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But whenever I see that PG tea advert on TV I think how close I was to real trouble ! ’ |
| 6 | Again , Fry 's study of difficulties confronted by disabled people in voting in the 1987 general election ( Fry , 1987 ) indicates a series of problems in the exercise of democratic rights which are to large degree sui generis , and can only be understood through specific knowledge of disability . |
| 7 | On the other hand their impact is very considerable in the market for monographs , quality children 's books , and hardback fiction ( 90 % of the sales of which are to public libraries ) . |
| 8 | ( a ) Facing Eyemouth sea-front , turn left along esplanade , joining beach at Dolphin Hotel ( which is to left ) ; leave beach by prominent path up on to cliff-top , and then keep along top of cliffs ignoring left forks , with caravan site on left and soon diverting out to headland ( with cannons ) ( b ) . |
| 9 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 10 | THE Palace press officers — who are to public relations what Jim Davidson is to marriage guidance — yesterday got a BBC TV crew to film newspaper photographers . |
| 11 | And it tends to be I 'm sad to have to say it , it tends to be a limited number of colleagues who are totally I think , removed from the mainstream of what the majority off us want to see , who are to prepared to withhold their voted in the House of Commons . |
| 12 | This kitsch multi-cultural trio , who are to high fashion what Benny Hill was to feminism , hail from Peckham , Dallas and Tokyo . |
| 13 | Daniel was much more subject than she was to gynaecological and biological terror about the coming birth . |
| 14 | You was expected to er to get to know these and also you was to taught to er sharpen the wood tools . |
| 15 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |
| 16 | The wind reduces such trees as there are to stunted survivors . |
| 17 | However , despite the publicity given to the more extravagant claims about the impact of new technology on the level of unemployment , and the popular notion that the silicon chip is a job destroyer , a survey , published in 1979 , of some 400 documents on the effect of the new information technologies on employment showed ‘ how little foundation there is to existing studies , half of which are by pessimists ( often with a trade union background ) and the other half by optimists ( who tend to be on the employers ’ side ) ’ ( Institute for Research on Public Policy 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Is that really all there is to Cuddly Dudley ? |
| 19 | However , if the advice you 've just read triggered off even one thought along the lines of ‘ Oh , I must remember that ’ then it has served its purpose by breaking the myth that all there is to electronic publishing is a piece of software and that anyone can use it . |
| 20 | The study will isolate key aspects of the successful transition to democracy in Spain , and examine how important they are to contemporary |
| 21 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 22 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 23 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 24 | Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black . |
| 25 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 26 | Infact , the team display did n't match the individual effort ( make sense ? ) perhaps they were to complacent about Swindon … who knows … still 3–0 => 3 points and 2nd place . |
| 27 | It was immediately evident to the Doctor that , accustomed as they were to successful action , the Chelonians were ill prepared for such a large number of casualties . |
| 28 | I was a bit disappointed in those Laura Ashley dresses , they were to tight for a start . |
| 29 | No it 's to Labour you plonker ! |
| 30 | So matches this side , not to low , it 's to low on the other bit , . |