Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union was not opposed to devolving school budgets , he argued , but it should be to an extent decided by each local authority . |
| 2 | There is no appeal from the decision of a county court registrar to the county court judge ; the appeal must be to a single judge -of the High Court ( Re a Debtor ( No 39 of 1974 ) ( 1977 ) 3 All ER489 ) . |
| 3 | Their conclusion was that most of the road signs in such studies are in fact initially detected and that differences found between signs and the poor overall performance in the Johansson and Rumar study must be to a large extent a memory effect . |
| 4 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 5 | He likes the blend of the two jobs , the one selfish because successful sportsmen must be to a greater or lesser degree , the other caring . |
| 6 | He must make decisions about what was historically important , not about , let us say , what was theologically or aesthetically important , significant though that might be to a believer or an artist . |
| 7 | Whatever our personal reactions might be to a production , that is the only real test . |
| 8 | The one I have chosen is this — brief , informal letters , written from time to time as our work proceeds , in a plain , straightforward style , as it might be to a friend . |
| 9 | … as it might be to a friend . |
| 10 | The introduction of new technology is only one aspect of problem solving in marginal areas and the desirable overall policy package may be to a substantial degree indivisible since changing one part may affect one or all of the other parts at a local , regional , national or European Economic Community ( EEC ) level . |
| 11 | For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants . |
| 12 | The dating of an artefact to the span of a single generation would be to a degree of accuracy which would provide a powerful tool for the study of Anglo-Saxon society . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't deny him the right to use whatever symbols he wants as an artist , but as a friend I was disappointed that he knew how inflammatory that would be to a Madness audience . |
| 14 | Technically a showing of such a film in private to members of a racist club or group would fall within the terms of the section , since the showing would be to a section of the public . |
| 15 | Because that was all she ever would be to a man like him . |
| 16 | Priced £18.95 , the book is aimed to be as useful to a PC novice as it would be to a seasoned user . |
| 17 | When I was about ten years old , a trip to the village from the South end was a bigger thrill than a trip to a big city would be to a present day child , later working in the village as a teenager , the dances every Saturday and Monday night was enjoyment never to be forgot . |
| 18 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire , but he has always been lucky . |
| 19 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire but he has always been lucky . ’ |
| 20 | Last-making will be to a higher standard . |
| 21 | And , because 400 years of Christianity have n't entirely obliterated caste , this will be to a Christian of Brahmin stock . |
| 22 | In a company , accountability will be to a Board of Directors , if it is a local authority then the Chief Executive is accountable to the full Council and the Principal of your College is accountable to the Board of Governors ( see figure 24 ) . |
| 23 | For married couples , it seems likely that it will be to an extent related to the degree of easy intimacy which they have achieved in sexual relations . |
| 24 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 25 | The perspective can be to a point at such an elevation that the projection lines appear to be parallel . |
| 26 | This lethal game is often called ‘ last across ’ , the idea being to see how close you can be to a train before it hits you or you can get out of the way . |
| 27 | Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl . |