Example sentences of "be [adj] to [pron] [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 | Barry Sandry … the professional says the facilities in Thamesdown for golf are first class … they are second to none in the country and they also use the facilities well by coaching youngsters from the age of five upwards … |
| 6 | The authority of the clergy had been second to none during the years of persecution and this appears to have strengthened as a direct result of Roman centralization from the 1850s onwards . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Any one network junction has topological neighbours , that is , junctions connected to it along a common chain , but it also possesses spatial neighbour junctions — junctions which may in fact be nearer to it in the continuum space but which belong to other chains . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 13 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 14 | It must be accessible to everyone at the start . |
| 15 | It must be accessible to everyone at the start . |
| 16 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 17 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The surveyor will be responsible to you for the stated purpose of the report . |
| 22 | the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |
| 26 | This point should be familiar to you from the discussion of long-wave , world-system and regulationist theories in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 27 | There was anguish in thinking of the anguish felt within the overcoats ; and in the hearts of people from the office with some substance and standing , like Gareth Holmroyd and Laurence Evenden ; and in the heart of one whose face would be well-known to anyone in the front pews from their television screens , if they happened to turn round … |
| 28 | He does n't realize it fully yet , because he 's trying to be nice to me at the moment . |
| 29 | Dance is firstly a physical activity and if it is obscured by complicated costumes , props , machinery , lighting and stage effects , it ceases to be relevant to anything but the cleverness of the producer . |
| 30 | It was Mike Nichols 's point of view that you should always be close to yourself in the most personal way to convey not only truth but humour . |