Example sentences of "be to [det] intents " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 2 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 3 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 4 | Throughout the world there exist diseases caused by treponemes that are to all intents and purposes identical to Treponema pallidum yet which are not transmitted sexually and , in some cases , may coexist with syphilis in the community . |
| 5 | These consultations are to all intents and purposes interviews , and should be treated as such . |
| 6 | But as these guitars are to all intents and purposes custom made , the buyer can specify virtually anything . |
| 7 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 8 | But by integrating these theories with their version of structural linguistics , they developed them in a very important direction : they placed them within a semiotic or semiological framework , semiotics and semiology being to all intents and purposes interchangeable terms . |
| 9 | If adults are not able to travel far to attend courses , any reduction in the range of courses in terms of subject content , levels ( eg HNC , degree ) and modes of study provided in a geographical area could result in some subjects being to all intents and purposes inaccessible to adults . |
| 10 | One is the private sector , at the service of the governing and dominant class , which is to all intents and purposes closed to people who do not belong to the upper class . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , and particularly south of the equator , the sea rules : north of 84° there is no land at all , and between 45°S and the Antarctic Circle there is to all intents and purposes none either ( just The Bluffs in New Zealand , a sliver of Patagonia and a few islands , unshakable relics of the British empire ) . |
| 12 | The men do what is to all intents a twenty-four-hour shift seven days a week . |
| 13 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is who he says he is , because he is who he used to be , because Dudley Moore is to all intents and purposes Dudley Moore , actor , musician , mascot , clown , then there are a few details and descriptions and facts and figures that have to be mentioned . |
| 14 | That period is to all intents and purposes part of the sentence , and he ought to know everything that is said about him before it is fixed . |
| 15 | First , spending on residential care in private sector homes for elderly people through the social security budget was rising at an exponential rate and was to all intents and purposes out of control , being demand led . |
| 16 | The office of Earl Marshal was to all intents and purposes the heritable property of the Howard family , although it was lost to them for several decades after the attainder of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in 1572 . |
| 17 | It was developed originally to promulgate priestly or legislative initiatives , and since these were collective and in some sense impersonal productions , what the writer meant was to all intents and purposes recoverable from what he wrote down . |
| 18 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 19 | It was the signature of a man who was to all intents and purposes illiterate . |