Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 2 | And at the end does these all words are to given to and insert the redevelopment site for long term employment . |
| 3 | It 'll be lovely , it 's tomorrow , seven thirty at the Festival Hall , Kirkby in Ashfield , all the proceeds are to local charities and the admission is two pounds fifty , and that includes refreshments . |
| 4 | But the real losses in princely revenues were to secular lords , by a process of slow attrition . |
| 5 | He was soon making explicit , too , a fundamental teleological analogy , in which changing conditions are to sexual generation as sexual crossing is to asexual generation . |
| 6 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 7 | The whole book is extensively referenced and this aspect is particularly valuable because the majority of the citations are to Russian work published during the past 20 years , much of which has not previously been translated . |
| 8 | Mr Clifford , for anyone who has been asleep through the entire summer , is to jilted mistresses what Zimmer frames are to decrepit old ones . |
| 9 | Parents and pressure groups representing parents , were concerned that Social Services Departments were to ready to end parental contact with children in care , and thus pave the way for adoption . |
| 10 | Her early journeys were to various southern counties , Bath , London , and Oxford . |
| 11 | cost money , but as far as this committee is concerned the one , of the particular threats is to strategic planning an and that 's something I , I referred to a moment or two ago . |
| 12 | Mass mobilisations by the so-called ‘ pro-life ’ forces in Buffalo are designed to focus on an issue that puts liberals on the defensive : abortion is to the US Democratic Party what taxes were to Labour . |
| 13 | Important as hut and poll taxes were to colonized people , the more lucrative source of revenue for the colonizers was taxing exports — raw materials and cash crops . |
| 14 | What the ventriloquist 's voice and the puppeteer 's hands are to the puppet , presuppositions are to rational thought . |
| 15 | Nationalism , like capitalism , is the very bedrock of European organisation : nationalism of one sort or another constitutes the building blocks for the construction of markets , the creation of transport networks , tariff barriers , for banking systems , for economies of scale in industry and business , for defining which internal and which external markets are to exploited and to what degree . |
| 16 | This analysis shows how sensitive these measures are to varying assumptions about unemployment and female labour for Participation . |
| 17 | Most citations in scholarly journals are to scholarly papers , and citations to popular works are rare . |
| 18 | A number of the grants , virtually all of the grants are to voluntary bodies who are providing services which are of considerable benefit to this Committee , and where we would be in some difficulty if they did n't give those of voluntary support to it . |
| 19 | All other references are to existing students , although names have been changed . |
| 20 | While most objections are to serious thinking what veneer is to seasoned wood , some — I have in mind objections that some feminists bring against the idea of animal rights in particular and the notion of rights in general — deserve a serious hearing and patient exploration . |