Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other areas that I am personally responsible for are Person to Person , an ‘ in depth ’ interview with a member of staff at their home , Amicable Angus/Agnes ( getting someone to come up with an idea ) and Amicable Focus . |
| 2 | He once had the impossible job of being PA to Ted Heath in sulphurous exile . |
| 3 | Mrs. Mounce busied herself with being kind to Tessa , too . |
| 4 | If you 're the new united German diplomatic corps , the answer 's obvious — send him off to be ambassador to Austria . |
| 5 | In the absence of precise definition , 20s. might be taken as marking the dividing line between husbandmen and labourers , were it not that at Long Preston Edmund Clarke ( nil ) was stated to be servant to Thomas Squyer , who was worth only 6s. 8d . |
| 6 | Theodora knew of old the willingness of the clergy to be far ruder over the phone than they would venture to be face to face . |
| 7 | Climate is determined by all kinds of influences : distance from the equator , direction of wind ( which in general tends to be east to west around the equator , because the Earth spins from west to east ) , the distribution of the land masses and the proximity of water , and the positions and height of mountains . |
| 8 | She says it 's less noise , and traffic which used to be nose to tail now flows freely . |
| 9 | The most important factor in determining whether an accident victim obtains damages for injuries was found to be access to advice , both pre-legal and legal , which may be offered without it even being sought . |
| 10 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 11 | Princess Diana has agreed to be patron to Centrepoint , the London-based charity caring for the homeless , it was announced last night . |
| 12 | It is important to remember that there are risks attached to being kind to people in this state , and important also not to underestimate how difficult it may be for such people to reach out on their own . |
| 13 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |