Example sentences of "[adj] [det] be to " in BNC.

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1 However strange this was to us , it was genuinely moving to the Chinese audience , and Comrade Chang , the cadre , sitting on my left , was in tears at the end of a sequence mourning the death of Chou .
2 Erm now you 've had a chance first of all I after our chat er par particularly on the phone and I make notes of people who er I think come well across on the phone because you know how important that is to us .
3 ‘ I am extremely concerned this is to be based on the Government 's own estimate of how much each council should spend the Standard Spending Assessment .
4 ‘ Do I have to spell out to you how important this is to me ? ’
5 If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science .
6 If you think back to joining the College , you will realise how important this was to you .
7 ‘ Where can I find this woman ? ’ the stranger asked quickly , showing in his pale face how important this was to him .
8 But this result becomes understandable once it is appreciated that in order to predict the outcome of a change of context it is necessary to know what associations have been formed , how each affects behaviour , and how susceptible each is to the contextual change .
9 How steady this was to be I could not have known .
10 A note in a dated 1 Sha'ban 963/10 June 1556 concerning the number of to be appointed in the of that year mentions that four new each are to be accepted from the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne , Bursa and Egypt and two each from the kadis of Damascus , Aleppo and Baghdad .
11 It is obvious how close these are to the characteristics attributed to speech and to print , respectively .
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