Example sentences of "be [pos pn] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And are their loyalties to their parent organisation , or to the host organisation , or to both ? |
| 2 | In the past it had been her coming to him . |
| 3 | ‘ Will you be my go-between to him ? ’ |
| 4 | That would be my question to you on that one . |
| 5 | On the Thursday night , which was to be her farewell to her public for ten days , she allowed an admirer , Frederick Calthrop to take her to supper . |
| 6 | What will be their objections to your presentation ? |
| 7 | And it should be deployed : it would be his tribute to his father ; his memorial to the reticent man he had scarcely known but deeply loved , and who had died so courageously . |
| 8 | The house would be his gift to his bride , the ultimate statement of his protection and that of his family . |
| 9 | I wonder if we could just finish with a very brief comment from you in a positive sense as to what would be your advice to somebody that 's unemployed ? |
| 10 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 11 | So far appreciation of other 's work had been his gift to us . |
| 12 | Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad . |
| 13 | Avoid his advances , is my advice to you , child . |
| 14 | I I I mean I do n't think you need to do that but er that 's my response to your question . |
| 15 | And here 's my advice to you : you must write from your brain , not your heart . |
| 16 | Such is their letter to us all . |
| 17 | yeah , erm , he 's also , what 's his attitude to what he |
| 18 | That 's his blessing to you . |
| 19 | But it 's your response to them that 's really the issue here . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's your solution to everything , is n't it ? |
| 21 | I 'm not asking for a lesson on highway modelling particularly at half past four in the afternoon but what 's your reaction to what Mr said about the way in which your model would perform in other words on an all or nothing basis , when it 's shorter it all goes that way ? |
| 22 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Here 's our present to you . ’ |
| 24 | Here 's our guide to what 's new in the undercover world . |
| 25 | What 's our duty to you ? |
| 26 | So again , it 's our thanks to you and here 's to a great 1992 for all of us . |
| 27 | But there is our responsibility to it . |
| 28 | One persistent analytical account of causal priority does seize upon an indubitable truth , that causal items stand to their effects as our means to our ends , while no effect is our means to its cause or causal circumstance . |
| 29 | What is our task to theirs ? |
| 30 | So Anthony , what are your comments to me ? |