Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | But there are limits to its tolerance . |
2 | Yet there are limits to their inventive adaptability , limits beyond which we often push them . |
3 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
4 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
5 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
6 | In France , as everywhere , there are limits to what is politically possible . |
7 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
8 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |
9 | There are limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits it is flexible . |
10 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
11 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
12 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |
13 | There are limits to my craziness . ’ |
14 | Like that there are limits to my self-control … ’ |
15 | So an annuity ca n't fall once you 've bought it it 's guaranteed , so you can see there are advantages to it . |
16 | But even though some of the birds we look on as ‘ ours ’ leave for more hospitable climes before the onset of winter , there are others to whom the Shetland climate is perfectly acceptable . |
17 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
18 | To have a successful outcome to this issue all parties concerned must feel there are benefits to them . |
19 | and what I want to do is to look at it er over that particular period so I can explain everything to you in full because there are benefits to you in terms of tax savings |
20 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
21 | Now he is known as The Man Who Changed the World , and there are statues to him everywhere . |
22 | They ca n't imagine that there are people to whom money is nothing . |
23 | This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters . |
24 | There are alternatives to what is called " the lecture system " — hardly an apt name , since anything less systematic or coherent than the uses made of a college lecture would be hard to find . |
25 | A lot more sort of individual builders and self-employed people like me and Chas will be more aware of things like this and that there are alternatives to it . |
26 | There were threats to his academic career , but they came from a different direction . |
27 | In addition to that great teacher of prayer , there were others to whom I owe a debt of gratitude . |
28 | He went on to say that the use of non-book resources was one aspect in which hoped-for developments had not taken place , and this is typical of the awareness that , despite general satisfaction with the project , there were limits to its success . |
29 | There were limits to what Karen would let you do . |
30 | While the USA would continue to sustain a world role , there were limits to what could be expected . |