Example sentences of "be [det] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few other references to Drumcree in early documents and this is possibly because for certain periods it was absorbed in Kilmore . |
| 2 | ‘ Why is it , do you think , that there 's been this incredible reaction to Phar Lap 's death ? ’ asks the reporter : ‘ After all , he was just a horse . ’ |
| 3 | Since the 1972 Act , there have been many additional authorities to Brussels through European Court judgments , individual directives and the implications and effects of the Single European Act , quite apart from the effect of the treaties which we have agreed in the past two days but which have yet to be ratified by Parliament . |
| 4 | There are many incidental references to traders in Charles 's kingdom . |
| 5 | There had to be some missing piece to Jane 's story . |
| 6 | We can not expect to detect boundaries bottom-up , since there seem to be few reliable cues to word boundaries . |
| 7 | In November 1985 , when he had heard there was going to be another Israeli shipment to Iran , he called North . |
| 8 | Also from Yale will be another new contribution to Renaissance studies , William Hood 's Fra Angelico at San Marco , discussing the ideals , daily rituals and pictorial traditions of the Dominican monastery in Florence based on an itinerary through San Marco sheds new light on the frescoes and panels . |
| 9 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 10 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 11 | Books : There are several excellent guides to Crete . |
| 12 | There were few English visitors to Scotland in any case . |
| 13 | Nevertheless there were some curious aspects to Kufran and Ajdabiyan resentment . |
| 14 | The Boston Compact was essentially about employability , ( although there were some initial allusions to community regeneration ) ; the two key funding UK government departments are obviously principally about the same thing . |
| 15 | There were some brief notes to Rose — from Sheffield , Newcastle and other Northern towns . |
| 16 | We were assigned almost immediately to carry our share on such missions as , Hanover , Berlin and then there were those shallow missions to North Africa and , and of Russia . |
| 17 | The implications of the book 's theory is that Israeli claims to statehood in Palestine are founded upon a false assumption and that the Jewish homeland lies just down the road from Mecca . |
| 18 | But the most positive news is that scheduled services to London are to restart in the Spring , following British Midland 's suspension of its Heathrow service in early 1991 . |
| 19 | Presumably there is some positive response to sugar before the bloating sets in , but what might this be ? |
| 20 | One could hypothesise that there is some phonological clue to ethnicity in this speaker 's speech which is apparent to members of the black community but not to others . |
| 21 | But there is another characteristic strand to foundationalism , that of empiricism . |
| 22 | Emissions of nitrogen oxide , not mentioned in the government press release despite the fact this is another important contributor to acid rain , have continued to rise every year since 1984 , with emissions from road transport up by 73 per cent between 1981 and 1991 . |
| 23 | But yesterday 's report from the US Purchasing Managers , which put the index of export performance at its highest level since April , is another red rag to dollar bulls looking for a narrower US trade deficit . |
| 24 | If there is any true successor to Frances Hodgson Burnett in her shaping of Ruritanian adventure-romance for young readers that successor is surely Violet Needham , whose linked tales of an unlocated ‘ Empire ’ , the neighbouring kingdoms of Flavonia and Monte Lucio and the duchies of Ornovitza and Trollac , were published between 1939 and 1956 . |
| 25 | Data files included punched cards ( as data files , not just for input ) ; the computer was dated , overloaded and likely to be replaced by one from a different manufacturer ; there was little real-time access to data ; management information was scarce ; there was little in the way of computerized records for Polytechnic students on non-modular courses , and that little was unintegrated with the modular system ; there were no benefits or access to data for offices besides the registry ; the file structures could no longer cope with the then size of the course ( 1,100 students ) ; and the data structures were arcane ( for example , over-zealous use of bit-packing ) . |
| 26 | But there was another major excursion to Camber Sands for Follow That Camel . |
| 27 | Welsh Oak stayed on to finish ten lengths second and there was another six lengths to Barnbrook Again . |
| 28 | Tim the blacksmith was another true friend to Jane . |
| 29 | It was this early exposure to wheat protein which led to the allergy . |
| 30 | Why , when the opposition goalie was taking a goal-kick , did he crouch forward and remain motionless like Johnny Fartpants ? was this some attempt to psyche out the opposition ? |