Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [be] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 " And one day perhaps I 'll even be mum to a boy child , like all of you .
2 Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology .
3 I wo n't be party to your bitching yourself on the sly .
4 I think that in your mind you should not be second to anyone .
5 You should never be party to making anyone else do anything they do n't want to .
6 ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other .
7 The pay was welcome and there might well be plunder to boot , not to mention the excitement .
8 There will also be opposition to the use of high quality agricultural land for golf courses .
9 The USA also has limited equity co-operatives to make housing affordable , while there can also be recourse to corporations and private foundations as possible sources of financial assistance .
10 They wo n't be interest to someone .
11 I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’
12 Tretorn , in filing its complaint , believes that the EC Commission 's lawyers may have missed the significance of the word in dispute ( ‘ type ’ ) because the LTA 's previous ball agreement , ( ie the one that the EC Commission was asked to consider ) contained no written reference to pressureless tennis balls , therefore ensuring that it could not be party to such vital information .
13 Then not ungently , ‘ I ought to tell you , they did talk to me about him , it ca n't be news to you what they are saying , that Michel has run off with your mother and that he wants to marry her .
14 I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it .
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