Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ask that through Your wisdom , Alan may be to his new church : |
| 2 | The sooner Chris Woods , if fit , or David Seaman is brought in , the closer England will be to having an insurance policy should misfortune befall the great keeper , as in the infamous case of Gordon Banks in 1970 . |
| 3 | Using the Chrysler would be to his advantage . |
| 4 | Though initial approaches from the link person and/or the DCSL may be to the head or the head 's senior nominee , it is to the library committee that the objectives and function of the project in the school are most often spelled out . |
| 5 | As H. M. Colvin has observed ‘ what Reims and St Denis were to the house of Capet , Westminster should be to the house of Plantagenet ’ . |
| 6 | To opt for nuclear power after Chernobyl would be to ‘ swap the prospect of a tragedy for the certainty of a catastrophe ’ . |
| 7 | As a result the deictic/non-deictic ambiguity is very general , and plagues the recipients of expressions like : ( 80 ) Bob is the man to the left of Mark where Bob may be to Mark 's own left ( non-deictic ) , or to the left from the speaker 's point of view ( deictic ) . |
| 8 | Not to allow voters a referendum in Britain would be to ‘ betray the trust … they have placed in us ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Curry said : ‘ A better balance on the taxation between wine , beer and spirits within the EC would be to the advantage of the UK and we are supporting that approach . ’ |
| 10 | While Graham Taylor 's loadsamoney outfit add to their lucrative market value by pulling on England shirts , half-a-dozen of the mountain men 's reward for tackling their Everest will be to actually find themselves out of pocket . |