Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 2 | The policy with respect to pay is to be about 7 percent above the national norm ( as IBM determines the norm among companies it considers comparable ) . ’ |
| 3 | Lying upon the sand at a distance of 200 yards [ 180 m ] , their bodies often seem to be a uniform dull chrome yellow , but in reality the entire upper surface of the animal from snout to tail is of a uniform olive green , mottled with the former colour . |
| 4 | From the small town of Urubamba the fifty kilometres , journey from Pisac to Ollantaytambo was in a colectivo so packed it was difficult to see anything . |
| 5 | Discussing the problem , Blackmore ( 1987 ) quotes several sources explaining why handwashing is essential if the transfer of infected material from person to person is to be restricted . |
| 6 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 7 | But what held the audience 's rapt attention from beginning to end was above all the genius of Verdi himself and the superlative grandeur of his music . |
| 8 | Their view of Karma as a life-giving force that flows from life to life is in every way like the modern physicist 's view of electrons ( electricity ) which they say is not ‘ matter ’ but a ‘ force ’ . |
| 9 | Unless there are instructions to the contrary , the transition from shot to shot is by way of a straight cut . |
| 10 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 11 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 12 | ‘ A moral life without reference to religion is like a house built on sand . |
| 13 | Learning to substantiate statements about the past by reference to evidence is of great importance . |