Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed he stated that ‘ urban units seem to be to the process of reproduction what the companies are to the production process ’ ( 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 2 | In ( 157 ) the reference seems to be to an active or working principle whose action is represented as coinciding in time with the functioning of the sewing machine . |
| 3 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 4 | Thus the percentage of the poll gained by UUUC was again over 50% in the third election within fifteen months and the result of the election suggests again that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland will not have an institutionalised Irish dimension and that they are profoundly suspicious of any party which is prepared to share power with those whose explicit or implicit aim seems to be to " destroy the state " . |
| 5 | The point of Benjamin 's article seems to be to decentre the political , or at least to subject it to test , to remove those making claims for their political correctness from their habitual position of judge and jury : such that the art can , in principle , sort out the politics , and not just vice versa . |
| 6 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 7 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 8 | Current policy seems to be to ‘ go soft ’ on the addicts and concentrate on catching the dealers , yet without customers the dealers would go out of business . |
| 9 | Obvious song has to be to the old Guantalamera ( ? ) one , which is usually turned into the ‘ One Rodney Wallace , there 's only one etc . ’ |
| 10 | Further support for the view that there does not exist a principle such as Woolwich contend for is to be found in statutory provisions for the recovery of imposts which should not have been paid . |
| 11 | How long was Errol Flynn 's nob reputed to be to the nearest inch ? |
| 12 | Well I 'd like , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I 'd like s some recognition of West Yorkshire 's problems to be evident in er the deliberations , which er at the moment it 's it 's absent , it may it may have been taken into account but it 's absent in the exposition , and I I 'd also like some erm indication that competing development would not be massed on the boundaries of Leeds , that the scales of er the the distribution of the employment land seems to be to be biased towards those districts which which border Leeds . |