Example sentences of "be to [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wish to switch to a new scheme , this could either be to another company scheme or to a personal pension . |
| 2 | Information about shape and size will of course be to some extent writer dependent . |
| 3 | Have you ever been to that Corby market ? |
| 4 | Althusser 's concept of the dialectic involves various levels of social formation that have a ‘ relative autonomy ’ , that is to say , they are to some degree self-determining . |
| 5 | Most political philosophers — and I think most people-take the intermediate view that fairness and justice are to some degree independent of one another , so that fair institutions sometimes produce unjust decisions and unfair institutions just ones . |
| 6 | We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time . |
| 7 | These groups are to some extent welcome to the authorities , as they provide obvious and organized bodies with which negotiations and discussions can be held . |
| 8 | The paper alleged that three of Di 's secret visits were to former car dealer James Gilbey . |
| 9 | After 2200 and before 0100 , 217 ( 26.8% ) of the visits were to children aged under 5 years whereas only 110 ( 14.2% ) of the visits later in the night were to this age group ( χ 2 =37.47 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 10 | It is to such character string formats that we now turn . |
| 11 | 2 In psychology , generalisation refers to the process that occurs when one stimulus , which is to some degree equivalent to another , can substitute for the other in arousing a conditioned response ( behaviourist psychology ) . |
| 12 | Although this is to some extent part of any clinical consultation , it can be approached more quantitatively . |
| 13 | It should be emphasized that the interpretation of users ' actions is to some extent context-driven . |
| 14 | Although this is to some extent true of all financial intermediation , it is particularly relevant to the operations of pension funds . |
| 15 | In other words , each group of problems is to some extent causative of the other groups . |
| 16 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 17 | Louis was to some degree right ; since 1202 no homage had been performed to a king of France by any plantagenet king for his residual continental possessions . |
| 18 | Since what was , in fact , a remarkably brief reign as the seeming Generalmusikdirektor of Europe ( in the late 1950s Karajan held important posts simultaneously in Vienna , Berlin , Salzburg , Milan , and London ) , he was to some extent suspect in English-speaking countries , where there is a naturally healthy distrust of cultural super-heroes , of the idea of the conductor as Übermensch . |
| 19 | This criticism was to some extent pre-empted in the report by recognition of such difficulties and there has been a movement in recent years to a further disaggregation of the relevant geographical unit . |
| 20 | It was to this common-sense knowledge that Berger and Luckmann directed the sociology of knowledge . |