Example sentences of "they [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study will isolate key aspects of the successful transition to democracy in Spain , and examine how important they are to contemporary |
| 2 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 3 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 4 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 5 | Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black . |
| 6 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 7 | Infact , the team display did n't match the individual effort ( make sense ? ) perhaps they were to complacent about Swindon … who knows … still 3–0 => 3 points and 2nd place . |
| 8 | It was immediately evident to the Doctor that , accustomed as they were to successful action , the Chelonians were ill prepared for such a large number of casualties . |
| 9 | I was a bit disappointed in those Laura Ashley dresses , they were to tight for a start . |