Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner . |
| 2 | The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time . |
| 3 | I am grateful to you for the information . |
| 4 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 5 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 6 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 7 | We too are called to exchange the things that are important to us for the sake of the transformation God wishes to work in us . |
| 8 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
| 9 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 10 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 11 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 12 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 13 | Linfield chairman , David Campbell said today : ‘ This is a fantastic capture for us — an experienced player who will be invaluable to us in the European Cup . ’ |
| 14 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 15 | There were no significant differences between the total , autonomic , and neuroglycopenic scores reported by subjects to be important to them at the beginning of a hypoglycaemic attack or later during its progression . |
| 16 | The surveyor will be responsible to you for the stated purpose of the report . |
| 17 | the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and |
| 18 | In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 19 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 20 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |
| 21 | This point should be familiar to you from the discussion of long-wave , world-system and regulationist theories in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 22 | He does n't realize it fully yet , because he 's trying to be nice to me at the moment . |
| 23 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 24 | Aspects of his work , his life style , are disagreeable to him in the extreme . |
| 25 | She smiled nervously at Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who had been kind to her at the time of their parents ' ungainly departure from life , but uncompromising . |
| 26 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 27 | Such alternative approaches were open to him at the material time . ’ |
| 28 | They were kind to her in the shops . |
| 29 | Most of the people who have been close to me over the years have been paid to be . |
| 30 | And a good many are obliged to us for the work they get here . |