Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This effect may be to due a different RNA secondary structure affecting the accessibility of the internal AUG codons . |
| 2 | A number of respondents make the point that when the Cadbury proposals refer to NEDs bringing independent judgment to bear on board decisions , the reference should be to independent directors . |
| 3 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 4 | More than a third of sales would be to Labour voters , another third to Alliance or Tory ( 12 per cent ) , and the rest to people who could not say which party they supported . |
| 5 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 6 | Moody 's has already said it believes that an independent French central bank and more bank privatisations will make it harder to predict how helpful the French state will be to troubled banks . |
| 7 | What is remarkable is how impervious a government can be to changing public opinion when insulated from the threat of political defeat by a substantial parliamentary majority . |
| 8 | This official would be to public law rather what the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the criminal law . |
| 9 | A recent exchange between young Scottish and French women has demonstrated how adaptable SCOTVEC modules can be to European projects . |
| 10 | But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me . |
| 11 | One solution could be to double notes at the octave , but this leads to poor results , as doubled notes become too powerful and upset the chordal equilibrium . |
| 12 | The references can be to other parts of the same book , to another textbook or to your own Shelfold notes ( see chapter 4 ) . |