Example sentences of "to be [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are n't Time Lords supposed to be above that sort of language ? ’ |
| 2 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 3 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 4 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 5 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 6 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 7 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've had a bad start , and you 're not going to be over this illness in a couple of days , but I 'm sure you can beat it . |
| 9 | He wanted to be through this valley . |
| 10 | I prefer not to be under any obligation to you . ’ |
| 11 | He did n't look to be under any pressure at all . |
| 12 | And in a way I 'm quite glad to be outside that circuit because my existence as a an artist is in many ways more real than to be cosseted by Arts Council money . |
| 13 | Base rate can be often seen to be outside this guideline , due mainly to expectations in future movements in interest rates ( see later in chapter ) . |
| 14 | Lastly , the points used in the control group can not be regarded as suitable : electrical stimulation of needles only 2 cm from the real points is unlikely to be without some effect . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 16 | That said , no scientist , politician , or policy maker who has any interest in the future of mankind can afford to be without this book . |
| 17 | But he was not himself able to be of much help . |
| 18 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 19 | There is no copyright in a fictitious name and an action in passing-off is unlikely to be of much help if the defendant uses that name in relation to different goods or services . |
| 20 | There is thus a tendency to build up a strong personal relationship over a long time , and slick high-pressure selling techniques are unlikely to be of much help . |
| 21 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 22 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 23 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 24 | By then a complete overhaul is often too late to be of much use . |
| 25 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 26 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |
| 27 | It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa . |
| 28 | A planning process which fails to accept this … is unlikely to be of much use in the realities of business life . |
| 29 | Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime . |
| 30 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |