Example sentences of "are to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greville at Farnham Surrey , are to the highest standard . |
| 2 | Character , personality and motives are to the forefront . |
| 3 | There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit . |
| 4 | The cylindrical rooms which are logically formed within the tower at several levels are usually of quite small diameter — indeed , decreasing diameter the nearer they are to the top of the tower . |
| 5 | About 90 per cent of exports are to the US , where Indian software systems cost half as much as American ones . |
| 6 | Our backs are to the wall and we must fight . ’ |
| 7 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 8 | We have already seen how important affection and self-respect are to the horse , and they both touch on Plutchik 's basic emotions of love and acceptance . |
| 9 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 10 | The truth is that the closer you are to the ring the worse it looks . |
| 11 | Additional excursions are to the spectacular Krimml waterfalls and Chiemsee Castle . |
| 12 | The issues addressed are those which are to the fore in the care and education of couples during pregnancy , childbirth and the neonatal period . |
| 13 | Such criticism was doubtless deserved at the time because his films were to Hollywood what some of today 's tabloids are to the newspaper industry . |
| 14 | As Building News declared in 1875 : ‘ Railway termini and hotels are to the nineteenth century what monasteries and cathedrals were to the thirteenth century . |
| 15 | Shoes are to the runner as a dog is to man . |
| 16 | Accustomed as we are to the damp rigours of most Scottish self-catering properties , the Rannoch flats and apartments seem like paradise . |
| 17 | Indeed he stated that ‘ urban units seem to be to the process of reproduction what the companies are to the production process ’ ( 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 18 | The authors ' intuitions are to the effect that in ( 12 ) , a plural continuation would be preferred , however . |
| 19 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 20 | To a high-ranking official in a planning agency , the mechanisms of informal help in house-building between rural villagers are just as much an external process as the workings of that agency are to the villagers . |
| 21 | Most sports injuries are to the mechanical structure of our bodies , the very areas that chiropractic was developed to treat . |
| 22 | What the ventriloquist 's voice and the puppeteer 's hands are to the puppet , presuppositions are to rational thought . |
| 23 | I can understand the designers ' reasoning , in that the knobs for the front pickup are to the front , and so on , but consciously or subconsciously , guitarists work from the selector switch , and my feeling is that that should point towards the pickup controls currently in use . |
| 24 | The prominence of some Lettish names in the last days of Soviet communism is a reminder of the days when the Lettish riflemen were to Lenin what the Swiss guards are to the Pope . |
| 25 | UNTIL the 21st , money matters are to the fore . |
| 26 | Section references below are to the Companies Act 1985 unless otherwise indicated . |
| 27 | All references to sections and schedules are to the VAT Act 1983 unless otherwise indicated . |
| 28 | Unless stated otherwise , all statutory references are to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 29 | The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | While all these elements are continuously present , not all are to the forefront of our consciousness . |