Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His statement said : ‘ I am under contract to Newcastle United until the end of this season . |
| 2 | I am in debt to you . ’ |
| 3 | " So how can I be of assistance to you ? " she asked , fixing a professional smile to her face , the same smile she used when dealing with difficult customers or when fixing the amount to paid out in bribes . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , how can I be of help to you ? ’ she said , taking her own seat behind the barrier of the desk . |
| 5 | ‘ In what particular can I be of comfort to Prince Llewelyn ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm under contract to the agency . |
| 7 | I 'm on contract to them . |
| 8 | I 'm in bondage to him to the tune of three hundred guineas which he 's squeezing me for , crushing me to death like a snake its prey . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm in chains to this place . ’ |
| 10 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 11 | I were on phone to her and Michael took the phone off and he went Shelley , she said what ? |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 13 | I told you all I was at liberty to and thought you had accepted it . ’ |
| 14 | But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others . |
| 15 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 16 | Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion , but to me Pottz looked natural , free , and potent . |
| 17 | The thought of asking one of the Royal family for money to breed owls seemed a bit out of order ; however , Suzy explained that the scheme was designed to help young people just like myself set up projects or businesses which are of benefit to the local community , as well as themselves . |
| 18 | The present discussion will highlight just one or two main conclusions which are of relevance to the main lines of argument in this book . |
| 19 | The main findings of the Scottish Office report ‘ Driver Attitudes to Speed ’ include a number of conclusions which are of relevance to local authorities : |
| 20 | It is thus the public elite which mediates across the country 's divisions inventing policies which are of advantage to itself and its clients . |
| 21 | Post Office Archives ( London ) Although the collections mainly concern the work of the General post Office , there are significant holdings of records from the late seventeenth century which are of importance to local historians researching the evolution of communication methods . |
| 22 | I can assure my hon. Friend that we shall continue to attach the greatest importance to achieving improved rules and disciplines , as we have throughout , along with better market openings , both of which are of importance to our textile industry , which wants lower tariffs on woollen textiles in the United States of America , where it already has a substantial export trade but where there is great further potential . |
| 23 | But the caves which are of interest to British cavers are inland caves — formed with the key ingredients of water , limestone and one hell of a long time . |
| 24 | The terms under which the EIB was formed prescribe that the purpose of finance provided shall be to support : projects aiding development of less advanced regions of the Community ; modernization and conversion projects in essentially declining areas ; and projects , usually large , which are of interest to several member countries or the Community as a whole . |
| 25 | Issue 1 addresses many issues which are of interest to Lothian Highways Staff . |
| 26 | Through exposure to the rich variety of skills , attitudes , gifts , life- and workstyles found in ordinary people , children can be shown that all individuals are unique and that it is their differences ( rather than their similarities ) which are of value to society . |
| 27 | Again , those elements of the house-building industry , both firms and individuals , which are at present to an alarming extent drifting into jobbing and repair work on account of the difficulty of obtaining licences , will find their way back into the housing field , and the existing danger of skilled house-building teams being broken up and not replaced will be avoided . |
| 28 | Then there is a Prado disperso , made up of works which not even the store-rooms have space for , and which are on loan to embassies , universities , provincial town halls and the like . |
| 29 | There are many issues people have to address in the aftermath of courtship which are in contrast to the wishes and hopes experienced during it . |
| 30 | Marija na Škriljna , near Beram , painted in 1471 , display a naive vitality and a medieval peasant 's sense of the harsh realities of life which are in contrast to the more cultivated products of the Italian Renaissance painters . |