Example sentences of "be to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They overlap but they 're to some extent slightly different criteria . |
| 2 | What is remarkable is how impervious a government can be to changing public opinion when insulated from the threat of political defeat by a substantial parliamentary majority . |
| 3 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 4 | More than a third of sales would be to Labour voters , another third to Alliance or Tory ( 12 per cent ) , and the rest to people who could not say which party they supported . |
| 5 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And the angel said unto them , ‘ Fear not , for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people . |
| 11 | for behold , I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people . |
| 12 | ‘ how committed will the ATB be to part-time farmers in the light of budget restrictions ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me . |
| 15 | A recent exchange between young Scottish and French women has demonstrated how adaptable SCOTVEC modules can be to European projects . |
| 16 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |
| 17 | Erm beyond two thousand and six , I would have thought the strategic guidance would be in locations other than peripheral expansion around the Greater York area , which I would have suggested would would more than likely be to new settlements . |
| 18 | This rule can not effectively be pursued if strict mens rea principles are applied , however appropriate these may be to other areas of the criminal law . |
| 19 | The references can be to other parts of the same book , to another textbook or to your own Shelfold notes ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 20 | Even if your reasoning is self-evident to you , it wo n't be to other people , who will come at the issue from a slightly ( or very ) different point of view . |
| 21 | The Georgian case was as close as could be to straight annexation , without the pretext of disorder ( although the Turkish army remained an important threat ) . |
| 22 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 23 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 24 | If you wish to switch to a new scheme , this could either be to another company scheme or to a personal pension . |
| 25 | The exportation of ‘ corporate crime ’ will normally be to Third World countries which , because they are more dependent upon capital , have fewer resources to check manufacturer 's claims or police corporate activities , and because their officials are more susceptible to corruption are less likely to circumvent corporate behaviour . |
| 26 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 27 | It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives . |
| 28 | When you went ashore it would be to some pub . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |