Example sentences of "be to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They overlap but they 're to some extent slightly different criteria . |
| 2 | We must allay those fears for both Devonport and Rossythe and Neil , can we have an update and what the G M B position will be to that response ? |
| 3 | Half-way through the twentieth century it was becoming clear to the more perceptive analysts that , whatever the political limitations might or might not be to that form of growth , there were ecological limitations looming on the horizon . |
| 4 | If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied . |
| 5 | Other publications emanating from official enquiries , such as the French National Assembly 's postwar investigation of the events of the 1930s , may without being corrupt , nevertheless reflect special interests and be to that extent unrepresentative . |
| 6 | And the angel said unto them , ‘ Fear not , for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people . |
| 7 | for behold , I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people . |
| 8 | While you have too much of a good thing , there never seem to be to many cables on a warm sweater but to prevent them becoming overwhelming , they are sometimes improved by crossing each strip over alternatively . |
| 9 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 10 | If you wish to switch to a new scheme , this could either be to another company scheme or to a personal pension . |
| 11 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 12 | It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives . |
| 13 | When you went ashore it would be to some pub . |
| 14 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |
| 15 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 16 | However distasteful it may be to some people , this does at least provide a rational explanation for the behaviour of those bystanders , even if it does not excuse them . |
| 17 | Attractive he might be to some people , but he was out of her league and anyway , she was n't interested . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A widower can become something of a ‘ cause ’ to those living in the same street or block of flats , whereas a widow , although not shunned , may be to some extent avoided by all but the most caring individuals in the early days of her bereavement . |
| 20 | Information about shape and size will of course be to some extent writer dependent . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | He acknowledges that precisely what rules of property there should be is undetermined by this ‘ general requirement of justice ’ and he also concedes that the choice of rules will be to some extent arbitrary . |
| 23 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 24 | There is some evidence ( by no means conclusive ) to indicate that the " hyper-male " situation ( XYY ) may be to some extent associated with aggressive tendencies and the XXY or XXXX situation with ultra.femininity . |
| 25 | I have just indicated one way in which criticism centred on the theory dependence of observation can be to some extent evaded by the inductivists , and I am convinced that they will be able to think of further ingenious defences . |
| 26 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 27 | ‘ I am aware of the nature of it and how offensive it would be to most MPs and most people in this country . ’ |
| 28 | Second call could be to those CHP companies prepared to offer a free initial energy analysis . |
| 29 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 30 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |