Example sentences of "be to [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I am aware of the nature of it and how offensive it would be to most MPs and most people in this country . ’ |
| 3 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 4 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 5 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 6 | For a man of my age I have n't been to many funerals , the result of belonging to a much reduced family and having a limited acquaintance . |
| 7 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 8 | Well , I do n't know cos I have n't been to any meetings for months , not |
| 9 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 10 | Have you been to any castles ? |
| 11 | Now we 've been to these meetings , and there 's a lot of airy-fairy words about yes we support parishes . |
| 12 | Had she been to these places with Chris ? |
| 13 | Saying you 've been to those destinations in the U K does n't actually hold the same appeal or esteem . |
| 14 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 15 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 16 | I have been to both places and can assure you , there is a great difference . |
| 17 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 18 | Throughout the world there exist diseases caused by treponemes that are to all intents and purposes identical to Treponema pallidum yet which are not transmitted sexually and , in some cases , may coexist with syphilis in the community . |
| 19 | These consultations are to all intents and purposes interviews , and should be treated as such . |
| 20 | But as these guitars are to all intents and purposes custom made , the buyer can specify virtually anything . |
| 21 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 22 | Disincentive effects are to many minds the limit to extensive redistributive equity . |
| 23 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 24 | Then : Hence , the four fifths of the file loaded later contains 40.458 per cent of synonyms , and 59.542 per cent of home records ; the 20 per cent of all accesses to the file that are to these records will therefore be split in this proportion . |
| 25 | But by integrating these theories with their version of structural linguistics , they developed them in a very important direction : they placed them within a semiotic or semiological framework , semiotics and semiology being to all intents and purposes interchangeable terms . |
| 26 | If adults are not able to travel far to attend courses , any reduction in the range of courses in terms of subject content , levels ( eg HNC , degree ) and modes of study provided in a geographical area could result in some subjects being to all intents and purposes inaccessible to adults . |
| 27 | So here 's to both teams and I hope the match in two year 's time is just as good as this was . |
| 28 | It also has a couple of sockets over the ears where you can plug in what is to all effects a stethoscope . ’ |
| 29 | One is the private sector , at the service of the governing and dominant class , which is to all intents and purposes closed to people who do not belong to the upper class . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , and particularly south of the equator , the sea rules : north of 84° there is no land at all , and between 45°S and the Antarctic Circle there is to all intents and purposes none either ( just The Bluffs in New Zealand , a sliver of Patagonia and a few islands , unshakable relics of the British empire ) . |