Example sentences of "be [noun] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright replies that built into her schedule will be visits to a favourite retreat house in Edinburgh — ‘ to recharge my batteries ’ . |
| 2 | Because we are dealing with what purport to be exceptions to a general principle , it is sometimes argued that there is no single legal principle of justification , merely a number of disparate responses to the specific factual and legal details of a particular case.13 Alternatively , a general principle of justification is advanced and given the name of ‘ necessity ’ or ‘ privilege ’ or some kind of ‘ comprehensive justification in relation to medical procedures ’ . |
| 3 | I 'm to be governess to a little boy in Edinburgh , and you 're to take charge of an antique loony in Penzance . |
| 4 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 5 | It is the NACAB , which continues : ’ It is financially highly inefficient and imprisoning people because of their financial vulnerability should be anathema to a humane society . ’ |
| 6 | Nor , indeed is the requirement in Part I for separate disclosure of the amounts of charitable or political donations ; in view of the minimal amounts needed to trigger this requirement and the modest amounts normally donated , they would very rarely be material to a true and fair view of its financial affairs . |
| 7 | Lévi-Strauss is not interested in what it means to be party to a maternal-uncle type of kinship relationship . |
| 8 | Who would ever have believed that Lucille , Vicomtesse de Seleglise and widow of Colonel Xavier Castineau , would be mother to a half-English bastard ? |