Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As sources of essential sociable interaction and ‘ informal ’ support and care , these networks are second in importance only to the nuclear family . |
| 2 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 3 | Mrs Gould who I am happy to say is quite well has been fully occupied in making drawings of the soft parts of the birds together with appropriate plants flowers berries etc. which will be introduced into my work and I trust from the fund of information I shall be enabled to add that the book will not be void of interest especially to all lovers of ornithology … |
| 4 | Some older people suffering from these and other major conditions can undergo a significant change in personality which can be distressing to people close to them . |
| 5 | Its confidence appeared to be growing , for in 1864 the tsar enacted three measures that were second in importance only to the emancipation itself . |
| 6 | In such cases it is important for food only to be given when the child is seated at the table or in the high-chair . |
| 7 | But there is another reason why communities like Belfast are difficult to deal with , and this is that the phonology of such communities is not usually adequately described and codified beforehand , whereas more information of this kind is available for varieties closer to ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 8 | Contamina-XXXX tion is highest in areas closest to the plant . |
| 9 | The outlines of his life are familiar but , because it fell into three parts separated by place as well as time , it is obscure in detail even to those who were closest to him at any given time . |