Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 2 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 3 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 4 | ‘ Any notion whom I 'm to special ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But whenever I see that PG tea advert on TV I think how close I was to real trouble ! ’ |
| 6 | Daniel was much more subject than she was to gynaecological and biological terror about the coming birth . |
| 7 | You was expected to er to get to know these and also you was to taught to er sharpen the wood tools . |
| 8 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |
| 9 | The study will isolate key aspects of the successful transition to democracy in Spain , and examine how important they are to contemporary |
| 10 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 11 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 12 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 13 | Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black . |
| 14 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 15 | Infact , the team display did n't match the individual effort ( make sense ? ) perhaps they were to complacent about Swindon … who knows … still 3–0 => 3 points and 2nd place . |
| 16 | It was immediately evident to the Doctor that , accustomed as they were to successful action , the Chelonians were ill prepared for such a large number of casualties . |
| 17 | I was a bit disappointed in those Laura Ashley dresses , they were to tight for a start . |
| 18 | No it 's to Labour you plonker ! |
| 19 | So matches this side , not to low , it 's to low on the other bit , . |
| 20 | it 's to early in the afternoon for me really . |
| 21 | it 's to small for one thing in it to pick up ? |
| 22 | Well it 's to runny . |
| 23 | Depending on how close it is to successful neighbours and the risk of root disturbance , grub the rootstock out . |
| 24 | Blue larkspur against a table-slip of faded mauve velvet , oh ! how unutterably delicious it is to tired eyes For half-a-crown , one of those gigantic glazed brown earthenware jugs ( filled with cream ) and for 5 ½d. each half a dozen tiny ones to match . |
| 25 | When Austin 's views are challenged , Petrey almost always comes down on Austin 's side ( the one obvious exception is that Petrey , unlike Austin , believes that speech-act theory is as relevant to literature , and to written language in general , as it is to spoken language ) . |
| 26 | Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD . |
| 27 | The more open it is to cognitive , interactive and voluntaristic elements , the more misleading seems the whole vocabulary of learning theory as a means of describing it . |
| 28 | This is the only valid state a DC can be in if it is to submitted for assessment by interested LIFESPAN users . |
| 29 | In general , Highlander have found that it is unwise to place too much reliance on Government funding for support , subject as it is to political whim and shifts of policy of the administration . |
| 30 | It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse . |