Example sentences of "[be] to [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 2 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 3 | Entry should be to Chris Ebrey on a standard entry card with division marked and a note to indicate whether available to assist for Friday 's practice runs . |
| 4 | Some Ministers told him the switch should be to income tax ; others , including Kenneth Baker , the home secretary , suggested VAT . |
| 5 | Most of the information ( and more besides ) could be obtained from the company itself but generally the first step will be to Companies House . |
| 6 | Cheapest flights will be to New York , Newark , Washington and Boston . |
| 7 | He could well be to South Africa what Willie-O now is to the World Champions . |
| 8 | ‘ I was not sure what the general public 's reaction would be to Swan Lake . |
| 9 | Slow start but in the end realises ambition to be to blaxpoitation movies what Airplane was to disaster movies . |
| 10 | Lighting columns now have to be to regulation safety standards , and it is hoped that the new lights chosen will be complementary to the street . |
| 11 | He may be to Ally McCoist what Jimmy Millar was to Ralph Brand , he may possess the aerial threat of a Willie Thornton , a Derek Johnstone , but Hateley contributes skill where those previous Rangers centre-forwards lent mainly bravado . |
| 12 | ‘ The first toast shall be to Hari Morgan , shoemaker extraordinaire . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll have to be to Mr Rosen , Frank . |
| 14 | Their services may not be essential to the ability of school teachers to combine children with employment ; they may be to business women and barristers , and more so to divorced or single working women . |
| 15 | In Kent , the natural progression for a care manager would be to group leader , supervising five to ten care managers , then to locality manager , and finally to one of five area commissioners . |
| 16 | ‘ Nor will I be to God foreswore |
| 17 | One of Lehman 's main tasks will be to value ITN . |
| 18 | Increasing contestability is likely to make some natural monopolies not sustainable ( e.g. the single-product rising cost cases ) , but in other cases the effect will be to discipline pricing behaviour more severely . |
| 19 | That 's Captain J.B.J. Noel — the 1922 and 1924 cameraman — talking to Blessed , and I 'm as willing to give credence to that as I am to Simon Fraser 's dream of Tilman 's end . |
| 20 | I am to fingerstyle bass playing what Lemmy is to pick playing — we both give it fair amounts of welly ! |
| 21 | I been to New York only a short while back . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , you 've never been to New York . |
| 23 | Have you been to New York recently ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's ages since I 've been to Hyde Park . |
| 25 | I 've been to Stanford Hall where they have you in a circle but at least , I think , wh however you sit , you must have a president in front of you in a chair and someone to keep a little bit of order . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , general manager resins at Silvertown , has been to Nippon Paint in Japan on a fact-finding visit . |
| 27 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been to Kinghorn Manor , ’ Corbett continued . |
| 29 | You ever been to Westbury Castle |
| 30 | Well I do n't know whether you go home from boarding school , you probably just have a day off , I do n't know , I have n't been to boarding school . |