Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
| 2 | With positive support from her colleagues , Lynda has been able to successfully combine a career with bringing up a family . |
| 3 | ‘ Arthritis has been good to Arthur ’ |
| 4 | I doubt that the death of your Molly fry was due to overcrowding , but through lack of water movement through the netting . |
| 5 | Marks and Spencer started being nice to its employees , customers , suppliers and neighbours decades before it was fashionable to do so . |
| 6 | According to commentators Gorbachev had been opposed to the formation of the party , for fear of allowing conservatives to create a power base and of exacerbating splits in the CPSU . |
| 7 | But Georgina had been kind to her , in her own way . |
| 8 | Provider power to shape the service also means that the NHS has been unresponsive to central policy direction and strategic planning . |
| 9 | The uniqueness of each village has affected the timing , the pace and the extent of these changes , but virtually no village in England has been immune to them . |
| 10 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |
| 11 | The Medellín drug cartel in a message broadcast on Inravision Television , Bogotá on April 27 denied responsibility for the assassination , stating that Pizarro had been opposed to the government 's current policy of extraditing drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States . |
| 12 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 13 | This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free-market measures begin to bite . |
| 14 | The AIDS Support Grant has been beneficial to Buckinghamshire SSD and its close relationship with the health authority . |
| 15 | Much of the accuracy that SPAR achieved was due to its use of a staged , score-based , processing architecture . |
| 16 | He claimed that the military significance of Porkkala for the USSR had been similar to that of Guantanamo for the United States . |
| 17 | On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been . |
| 18 | Miss Merchiston , who had refused to wear mourning up until today , was now correctly attired in black crêpe , but Theda had been obliged to content herself with her dark stuff gown and black ribbons to her cap . |
| 19 | Dertliev 's withdrawal in Zhelev 's favour indicated that the BSP and UDF had come to an agreement ( reportedly Dertliev had been unacceptable to the BSP as President ) , as did the Assembly 's election by acclamation on Aug. 1 of the BSP 's Atanas Semerdzhiev as Vice-President . |
| 20 | ‘ Even Norman Lamont has been kind to me . ’ |
| 21 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 22 | Furthermore , it ‘ will not join in and will seek to prevent efforts by others to bring about consideration of proposals which it and Israel agree are detrimental to the interests of Israel ’ . |
| 23 | Paige had been happy to house-sit for him until a relative could arrive , and in the meantime she had done a little searching around of her own in the markets . |
| 24 | Robert Fellowes , her personal private secretary and the most powerful man in the Palace , is credited with the Princess of Wales 's recent announcement that the Queen and Prince Philip had been supportive to her . |
| 25 | Senator Crowninshield had been sympathetic to the problems a child might have with a famous parent . |
| 26 | She had said that Isobel had been to see her , and that she , Anna had been horrible to her . |
| 27 | Grandmother Gertler had been grateful to her family , but she had been less unequivocal in her thankfulness to God . |
| 28 | Firms in the UK have been able to repurchase their shares since the 1981 Companies Act , provided that shareholders are willing to sell and that the firm is left with some issue of share capital following the repurchase . |
| 29 | The amount of ClO accumulating was proportional to the uptake current at different membrane potentials ( Fig. 4 f ) and was similar to the rise in [ ClO ] o predicted from the uptake current flowing ( Fig. 4 g legend ) . |
| 30 | By contrast , Malaysia has been able to be much more liberal ; there have been no restrictions on the remittance of profits abroad or on the withdrawal of capital through divestment . |