Example sentences of "[prep] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was weight-weakened for the Lampkin defeat , so it was a case of being to heavy for that fight , and too light when he lost to Lewis . ’ |
| 2 | The Church was the essence of being to Medieval peoples whether in town or village . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 5 | We dedicate this cross to be to all a symbol of his suffering and his victory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 9 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 10 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 11 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 12 | Our current legislation relating to elections restricts the right to vote and to be to British and other commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Irish republic . |
| 13 | oh well , we , really the weather 's not to bad , you , you have n't got to be to sensitive about things have you , you 've got to just take it enjoy the lot , enjoy |
| 14 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 15 | I mean , Helen Burn 's plea here is not to be to eager for retribution to come in this life , but trust to it erm |