Example sentences of "be [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central T8-A9 step is overwound to 44° , whereas the flanking C-T and A-G steps are underwound to 28° . |
| 2 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 3 | Analysts such as Anderson ( 1984 ) , Frisby ( 1985 ) and Callinicos ( 1985 ) have thus aggressively disputed Lyotard 's famous pronouncement that the contemporary scepticism before ‘ metanarratives ’ has been midwife to the birth of the postmodern condition . |
| 4 | I am the servant of the cause I have at heart , and you and I , and Harry if need be , are coin to be spent for it . ’ |
| 5 | I am clerk to the King 's Bench of the royal court of England . |
| 6 | I am clerk to Nether Wyresdale Parish Council in Scorton and , while I can not speak on behalf of either the Parish Council or the residents of the parish , I think it would be appropriate to discuss the possibility of Nether Wyresdale becoming part of Lancaster District . |
| 7 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 8 | These quick distinctions are prologue to a crucial point . |
| 9 | There 's been damage to farm machinery as well … ’ |
| 10 | I am witness to the very hard graft of both my parents , namely fish and chips and confectionery , over many years . |
| 11 | Their different solutions to the question of marriage , neither of which was in any way adequate , are witness to another , even more serious . |
| 12 | The scraps of handwritten messages from survivors huddled in the Carpathia ( Lot 9 at Christie 's , £6,000/8,000 ) ; a letter written in the Titanic and posted at Queenstown ( Onslow 's , £1,500/2,000 ) are witness to the greatest maritime disaster of modern times . |
| 13 | We are witness to a disaster , a word which means ‘ a fault in the stars ’ ( dis-aster ) . |
| 14 | It is clear that we are witness to a deeply sardonic vision of an industry that , despite its sugar-coated exterior , is both corrupt and cannibalistic . |
| 15 | Referring to the " past tragedy of another people " as it affected the " present existence " of the Palestinians , and addressing " the Israeli people , with whom we have had a prolonged exchange of pain " , the speech noted that " the occupier can hide no secrets from the occupied and we are witness to the toll that occupation has exacted from you and yours " . |
| 16 | At Eton , he had been fag to a charmless older boy who had wasted no time in introducing Henry to the joys of homosexuality . |
| 17 | Talk to me , here are talk to me . |
| 18 | Loud music , screaming and shouting are torture to the delicate hearing apparatus of the typical feline . |
| 19 | In a number of cases there has been recourse to the courts by parents anxious to secure appropriate provision for their child in the face of local authority opposition . |
| 20 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 21 | Why had he been witness to these events ? |
| 22 | We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . |
| 23 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 24 | But there was more to it than that : as the only daughter and elder sister to Nathan and Matthew , she had become far more involved in the running of the household , and had been witness to her mother 's frequent pregnancies , miscarriages and confinements . |
| 25 | ‘ When Constanza got there she was told that her mother had made a mistake with her sleeping pills , her maid had been witness to that . |
| 26 | Both had worked closely with Laker ; been witness to — and victims of — his downfall ; both had much to say about the pitfalls Branson should , at all costs , avoid . |
| 27 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 28 | The fifty pence went unclaimed and all had been witness to the head 's control of events . |
| 29 | He too had seen Alfred departing with Beatrice , but unlike Alice he had followed them , and had been witness to Alfred 's humiliating rejection . |
| 30 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |