Example sentences of "[be] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are dangers to life . |
| 2 | ‘ Loose fit ’ , in a word , works better in poetry than ‘ tight fit ’ ; there are roads to wisdom besides the painstaking perverse originality of twentieth-century writers . |
| 3 | What the team demonstrated first of all was that there are attitudes to safety such as ‘ accidents will happen ’ and , when contractors are involved , ‘ accidents will definitely happen . ’ |
| 4 | There 's been damage to farm machinery as well … ’ |
| 5 | Farms supply commodities which are inputs to food processing . |
| 6 | Conventions are here understood in a narrow sense in which they are solutions to co-ordination problems , i.e. to situations in which the vast majority have sufficient reason to prefer to take that action which is ( likely to be ) taken by the vast majority . |
| 7 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 8 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 9 | The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped and separated . |
| 10 | The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped not contiguous sometimes with a finely rugose distal edge . |
| 11 | The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped and separated . |
| 12 | The police report that over 40 per cent of burglaries of urban dwellings are break-ins to basement flats . |
| 13 | A well-lit position and dryish compost are keys to success with poinsettia |
| 14 | For an ascent of the Whymper Couloir of the Aiguille Verte for instance , a midnight start and a six hour target time are prerequisites to success . |
| 15 | There are advantages to self development . |
| 16 | Koepnick ( 1985 ) has demonstrated how stylolites act as migration barriers ; dense stylocumulates in particular are barriers to fluid migration . |
| 17 | ‘ T is said they 're kin to coal . ’ |
| 18 | And certainly they 're record to date has been better than ours so erm maybe we should |
| 19 | But certainly prefer to see that pensions , that encompass all working people and from the time that we 're men to work until they retire and that something is arrange for the person 's when they 're senior citizens . |
| 20 | It should not be forgotten that in general , statistical tests of this kind are aids to interpretation . |
| 21 | There are drawbacks to injection too , Mr Hann points out . |
| 22 | Walker 's Reflection 1 for MS-DOS and Reflection 1 for Windows are alternatives to HP AdvanceLink products , and are available to AdvanceLink users as trade-ins at $100 per user . |
| 23 | Other areas that I am personally responsible for are Person to Person , an ‘ in depth ’ interview with a member of staff at their home , Amicable Angus/Agnes ( getting someone to come up with an idea ) and Amicable Focus . |
| 24 | ‘ There are disadvantages to marriage . |
| 25 | The curtains — drapes — in the latest Hebridean ferries are floor to ceiling with tie-backs and the carpets are wall to wall . |
| 26 | Yet in our day-to-day lives , we are witnesses to communication breakdowns , misinterpretations and blockages , where the transmitter 's attitudes , values , experiences , language , posture , etc. do not link together in a consistent message , or where the message itself has inaccuracies , or where the receiver 's attitudes , values and perceptions cause so much filtering of the message that the intended information does not get through — what is heard is what the receiver wanted to hear , not what was said . |
| 27 | If they are witnesses to fact , you will need to know where they were when the accident occurred and how good their line of sight was . |
| 28 | Among the services offered are access to database information and details of all member firms , their work specialities and language skills . |
| 29 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |
| 30 | The music halls , professional football , the ‘ penny dreadful ’ comics and the ‘ penny bloods ’ which were said to be inducements to crime and immorality , the rowdy presence of working-class people at seaside resorts on Bank Holiday excursions , the evening promenade of young people that was ridiculed by their elders as the ‘ monkey parade ’ , the depravity and violence associated with the pub — they all came under attack at different times . |