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Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	When he did encounter problems , remedies were easily to hand .
2	And each work area needs careful thought to ensure that all necessary equipment and ingredients are conveniently to hand .
3	Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park .
4	Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park .
5	The young soldier and his girl were soon to part .
6	The management committee is also to beef up the criteria to be met by new members of the League .
7	How much flexibility is there to folio " a shifting target ?
8	The next test is more to Beau 's liking — dealing with a mob that gets out of control .
9	Charlton was picked up and carried to Hewett 's house where medical help was soon to hand .
10	This committee was still to report when the Council in 1958 felt it necessary to reiterate its interest in a common market .
11	‘ The Artist 's gift is always to creation itself , to the ultimate meaning of life , to God . ’
12	The group is also to affiliate to Mencap , Britain 's largest voluntary organisation for mentally handicapped children and adults and their families .
13	The founder 's desire is usually to hand on to his children a more prosperous business than he inherited , and under the latest provisions it will be extremely difficult to do so .
14	While the purpose of creating commodity organisations was neither to escape liability nor to create profits for the organisation itself , but to control dealings in the commodity for the benefit of member States , the consequence has been to deprive third parties who were dealing in good faith with the organisation of a domestic judicial remedy .
15	Poole offered in return the benevolent strength and practicality which Coleridge was soon to value so greatly .
16	The crew were here to film ’ Shadowlands ’ the life of C.S Lewis , who 's remembered at one of Oxford 's best-known poets and children 's writers .
17	The duty of the court is neither to make nor to alter nor to pass judgment on the law .
18	Today almost anything goes as long as the right jacket is there to gull the public .
19	Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week .
20	First , that the loyalty of most rural and many urban people is still to tribe rather than nation ; second , in the continuous drift towards authoritarian systems of government ; and , third , in the failure to resolve peacefully a system of succession of heads of state .
21	During a drunken scene from Alex Cox 's Straight To Hell , you can see Joe Strummer kicking a tin can and calling out the names of footie players such as David Speedle , Pat Nevin and Kerry Dixon .
22	‘ Our Love Is Here to Stay ’ played on a calliope organ .
23	Plans were underway to re-engine the Shinden with the 1,984lb thrust Ne–130 turbojet .
24	The reception office should be so organised that all sources of information necessary to answer enquiries are immediately to hand .
25	All the relevant documents will then be appended to the same computer file , so that whenever a customer rings or when a job is actioned , all pertinent information is immediately to hand — for whoever needs it .
26	Central America is home to maize , tomatoes and cocoa .
27	Proof is now to hand that some exciting airframes are still there !
28	A useful selection of stone was also to hand ; travertine , a form of hard limestone from the area near Tivoli , also tufa and peperino , both of volcanic origin .
29	A pile was already to hand and he began folding the pamphlets and inserting them into the envelopes .
30	Also , ‘ for the first time since 1906 union funds were exposed to the threat of damages claims if official support was even to action which was no longer immune ’ .