Example sentences of "they [be] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are letters to me , to us . |
| 2 | They are matters to which I now turn . |
| 3 | To make it worse , they feel guilty about it ; they think they are failures to themselves , traitors to their sex and threats to their babies . |
| 4 | Such crimes are , by their very nature , difficult to hide , and they are crimes to which the police will devote great effort and resources to solve and ‘ clear up ’ . |
| 5 | They are people to whom the Conservative party is meat and drink and there are few enough eccentrics among them . |
| 6 | But they are guidelines to what acting is basically about . |
| 7 | They 're people to him — not human people , but the same sort of thing , only different . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're servants to you , ’ she said quietly . |
| 9 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't know that , they were strangers to me . ’ |
| 11 | Here , she took a step back and called on Ferdinando to discuss Garibaldi and his Red Shirts and the promises of Cavour — they were names to her and nothing more . |