Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] to [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 2 | Warning — the reference to the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin are to some two-volume American edition , not to the original English one ( which is surely accessible enough ? ) . |
| 3 | Though never a gourmet , I appreciated also the food at Ika 's home , as I found what was provided at the Cité Universitaire almost inedible , even accustomed as we in Britain were to such unappetising fare as powdered egg and cakes baked with liquid paraffin . |
| 4 | An appeal to the Swedish Supreme Court is considered unlikely , so Christer Pettersson is to all practical purposes a free man . |
| 5 | Quite hard for the grade , it follows one of the straightest cracklines in Lakeland for a full 50 metre rope length , with excellent protection ranging form RP 's to medium sized friends ! |