Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere there are just clues to former occupancy : foundations , a silted mill-race , or the remnants of a weir , as described by Edward Thomas : |
| 2 | But we 're not slaves to healthy eating — it 's all a question of moderation . ’ |
| 3 | But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way . |
| 4 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
| 5 | An order requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants , who were not parties to any Euramco transaction and who did not receive anything under any Euramco transaction , to repay the investors the money paid for the Euramco shares , is , he submits , a compensatory order , not a restitutionary one . |
| 6 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
| 7 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 8 | Section 2(3) ( a ) of the 1957 Act provides that where a person enters in the exercise of his calling , the occupier may expect that that person will appreciate and guard against risks which are ordinarily incident to that calling ( Roles v Nathan and General Cleaning Contractors v Christmas ) . |
| 9 | The Company is not party to any arrangement to enable any Director or his family to acquire benefit through the acquisition of any shares , debentures or loan stock of any other company . |
| 10 | It is not material to any issue before the court , but I should record that on 26 March 1991 the board of Lautro considered whether intervention remained justified in the light of information that had come to their knowledge since 30 October 1990 . |
| 11 | The minister in charge of the Overseas Development Administration , Mr Chris Patten , is a keen green , and helped to write Mrs Thatcher 's how-green-I-am speech to last year 's Tory party conference . |
| 12 | Among some indigenous groups there is also resistance to any kind of integration with ladino society which means denying their own culture and becoming ‘ Spanish ’ . |
| 13 | The rainforest is a tightly knit ecosystem but one that is only vaguely understood ; which is why damage to any part of it can never be exactly limited . |
| 14 | A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said on July 6 , however , that Pakistan was not party to any attempt to evade export controls . |