Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | The ruling means that Newall will be a step closer to freedom when the hearing to extradite him to Jersey re-opens on Wednesday . |
| 3 | She must live with women , be a mother only to girl children . |
| 4 | Indeed , the Phillips curve did seem to conform with much of what Keynes had written on inflation in the years after the General Theory , the most illuminating example of which is the pamphlet How to Pay for the War ( 1940 ) . |
| 5 | Not only is the book up to date — it also indicates where future developments may lie . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean that 's the way back to camp ? |
| 7 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 8 | There 's a lot more to life than that . ’ |
| 9 | Some people are realising that there 's a lot more to life than paying your rent and having your American Express card , ’ says Margo , conveniently forgetting about the discreet stickers near the cash desk encouraging clients to pay by American Express and Mastercharge . |
| 10 | But for Iain there is no way back to ordinariness . |
| 11 | There is no reason not to abridge time . |
| 12 | performance also improves if the evaluation stems partly from the employee and is a prelude not to recrimination , but to further goal setting . |
| 13 | After many Christmases of justifying what I do , friends are beginning to realise that there is a lot more to sport than first meets the eye . |
| 14 | There is an arrow straight to absentee behaviour ; this says that women are more likely to be absent from work than men , regardless of the kind of job they are in . |
| 15 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 16 | There was a drift back to work . |
| 17 | But its eventual sale , in 1989 , was a jolt back to reality . |