Example sentences of "[be] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central T8-A9 step is overwound to 44° , whereas the flanking C-T and A-G steps are underwound to 28° . |
| 2 | There are dangers to life . |
| 3 | I am clerk to Nether Wyresdale Parish Council in Scorton and , while I can not speak on behalf of either the Parish Council or the residents of the parish , I think it would be appropriate to discuss the possibility of Nether Wyresdale becoming part of Lancaster District . |
| 4 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 5 | ‘ Loose fit ’ , in a word , works better in poetry than ‘ tight fit ’ ; there are roads to wisdom besides the painstaking perverse originality of twentieth-century writers . |
| 6 | What the team demonstrated first of all was that there are attitudes to safety such as ‘ accidents will happen ’ and , when contractors are involved , ‘ accidents will definitely happen . ’ |
| 7 | There 's been damage to farm machinery as well … ’ |
| 8 | Paula Rego 's new work , twenty-eight watercolours which are illustrations to children 's stories , are showing at Marlborough ( 2 December-30 January 1993 ) . |
| 9 | Farms supply commodities which are inputs to food processing . |
| 10 | In the years between the wars G. K. Chesterton and Evelyn Waugh had been converts to Rome . |
| 11 | Encom Cable TV & Telecommunications Ltd has launched a local telephone service in Redbridge , Barking and Dagenham , Essex : the service is offered over the company 's fibre trunk cable , which links to Mercury Communications Ltd 's national network ; the company claims that calls are 10% to 15% cheaper that British Telecommunications Plc 's . |
| 12 | Cuts on PS/2s , including the Ultimedia series , cuts are 10% to 18% . |
| 13 | Both releases are thanks to Ensign Records , the label responsible for Sinead O'Connor . |
| 14 | Conventions are here understood in a narrow sense in which they are solutions to co-ordination problems , i.e. to situations in which the vast majority have sufficient reason to prefer to take that action which is ( likely to be ) taken by the vast majority . |
| 15 | He too had seen Alfred departing with Beatrice , but unlike Alice he had followed them , and had been witness to Alfred 's humiliating rejection . |
| 16 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 17 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 18 | These houses have been homes to squattors for the past 4 years . |
| 19 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 20 | However , some reports suggested that there had been opposition to Saddam 's decision to invade . |
| 21 | The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped and separated . |
| 22 | The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped not contiguous sometimes with a finely rugose distal edge . |
| 23 | The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped and separated . |
| 24 | Apart from visits to the local hospital , there have been trips to St Thomas ' Hospital in London , where Graham is seen regularly by one of the world 's most eminent dermatologists . |
| 25 | The police report that over 40 per cent of burglaries of urban dwellings are break-ins to basement flats . |
| 26 | There are walks to Bothwell Castle where we picnic with tomato sandwiches and lemonade in the unkempt , wooded grounds or inside the ruins , always in a group of girls . |
| 27 | A well-lit position and dryish compost are keys to success with poinsettia |
| 28 | For an ascent of the Whymper Couloir of the Aiguille Verte for instance , a midnight start and a six hour target time are prerequisites to success . |
| 29 | Both are home to seabirds and seals and all manner of grasses and flowers . |
| 30 | This week United are home to Watford … |