Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of gossip and these misunderstandings only served to bring home to him how grateful he should be to Theo , who was now a believer and supported him willingly . |
| 2 | Some Ministers told him the switch should be to income tax ; others , including Kenneth Baker , the home secretary , suggested VAT . |
| 3 | Entry should be to Chris Ebrey on a standard entry card with division marked and a note to indicate whether available to assist for Friday 's practice runs . |
| 4 | Our principle function within the policy development department within N C V O must be to work with , and not simply for our member and the wider sector . |
| 5 | It is sometimes quite incredible the kind of information people expect the reception desk to supply , but generally it takes the form of questions about train , bus and taxi services , which means up-to-date timetables and the telephone numbers of the local taxi services must be to hand . |
| 6 | My responsibility must be to truth , not to society , which is corrupt . |
| 7 | It might be to Jeddah , or to Karachi , or to Budapest . |
| 8 | As she was a devout Anglican , somewhat callously I may have thought that death to her was not the ‘ end ’ it might be to others . |
| 9 | Malcolm Storry 's bullet-headed Aufidius is not simply a rude barbarian but an acute analyst of Coriolanus 's character : Mr Storry has the priceless gift of making the language tangible so that when he says ‘ I think he 'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish ’ the image comes resonantly alive . |
| 10 | John Lahr told me of his astonishment at how unpleasant he could be to waiters at the Indian restaurant they visited together . |
| 11 | ( An alternative toast could be to friendships which endure forever . ) |
| 12 | He was magnificent , but she must n't let the surge of unexpected excitement running through her blind her to the danger he could be to Dana . |
| 13 | and the response to such a command could be to hand up some dictionary definition of a bar as a drinking place . |
| 14 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 15 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Their services may not be essential to the ability of school teachers to combine children with employment ; they may be to business women and barristers , and more so to divorced or single working women . |
| 18 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 19 | He may be to Ally McCoist what Jimmy Millar was to Ralph Brand , he may possess the aerial threat of a Willie Thornton , a Derek Johnstone , but Hateley contributes skill where those previous Rangers centre-forwards lent mainly bravado . |
| 20 | Although there have been a number of successful experiments in providing advice to farmers at the ‘ grass roots ’ — most notably the Upland Management Scheme in the Lake District — farmers still remain suspicious of environmentalists however sympathetic they may be to environmentalism . |
| 21 | Had it been a boy , he would have been Arthur , after that toast of all good Cornishmen , the once and future king ; but as she was a girl , she was Jennifer , which was as close as need be to Guinevere . |
| 22 | Adreeja Chatterjee , an A Level student at Polam Hall , asked what Mr Milburn 's message would be to parents with children at private schools . |
| 23 | The most obvious way of obtaining these two facilities would be to keyboard the Supplement entries into the correct places as the OED text was being keyboarded . |
| 24 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 25 | If I went anywhere it would be to Florida and Las Vegas for gambling . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was not sure what the general public 's reaction would be to Swan Lake . |
| 27 | He had hoped that the new journey he had made would be to freedom , back to his beloved homesite and his parents . |
| 28 | well maybe that would be to English |
| 29 | My only hope , should I ever see the show again , would be to cling-film the whole face and fasten it below the chin with a Twist'n Seal . |
| 30 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |