Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we back to the levels two years ago , with THE premier midfield , and a back four that held firm despite lots of snide comments about the apparent quality ? |
| 2 | He was to be someone acceptable to the Deanses and to Mr Moffat and Mr Johnston and a ‘ business figure of standing ’ had already been approached . |
| 3 | There may be something endemic to the more ferocious subterranean dweller about suspicion , aggression , an unquestioning pack instinct backed up by heedless hostility to all outsiders . |
| 4 | A source of tension in government was Lekhanya 's perceived conciliatory attitude towards South Africa , whereas Moshoeshoe and some officers on the Council were said to be themselves sympathetic to the South African liberation movement , the African National Congress ( ANC ) . |
| 5 | Nor are they amenable to the analysis put forward by Miller and Swift , that they somehow ‘ distort reality ’ . |
| 6 | No justification was offered for these areas ; neither are they identical to the six lines of development adopted by the Assessment of Performance Unit , which also involved HMIs . |
| 7 | In other words , are observed platelet abnormalities related to the disturbed metabolic state of diabetes or are they secondary to the presence of vascular disease ? |
| 8 | ‘ Your Grace , were you married to the Lady Eleanor ? ’ |
| 9 | Nobody can say that depressions were something peculiar to the 1930s . |
| 10 | Erm i because the people that w we were we near to the people and more accessible to them , |
| 11 | Is everyone agreeable to the recording of today 's proceedings ? |
| 12 | Publicity is nothing new to the genial Ruscoe , however , who has been the focus of considerable interest since moving to his Orkney telefarm six years ago . |
| 13 | In the end there is nothing external to the broadest and most significant institutions . |
| 14 | There is nothing derogatory to the teacher intended in such a suggestion . |
| 15 | The notion that there is nothing more to the idea of parliamentary sovereignty than that Parliament is more powerful than the Crown has a strange ring to today 's ears . |
| 16 | The Coordinator is finally responsible to the Head of Area Staff who is himself/herself responsible to the Head of UK/I for ensuring that UK/I priorities for work are pursued in Regions and Nations . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you say that the production of a novel is something akin to the process of childbirth ? ’ |
| 18 | For example , John Hull argues that " there is a theology appropriate to the concrete thinker just as there is one available to the abstract thinker " ( Hull 1991 : 13 ) . |
| 19 | However I do not favour this view as to my mind the force in this poem which awakens is one indifferent to the survival of the life it awoke . |
| 20 | ‘ Is it far to the top ? ’ |
| 21 | Is it relevant to the product ? |
| 22 | Not only is it close to the coast but also to a large river , the Kumbukan . |
| 23 | Erm is it similar to the problem you 've done ? |
| 24 | Is it five to the bus or ten to ? |
| 25 | The general point here is that ‘ class ’ as a cultural phenomenon in British society , as a form of broad and loose social collectivity , is not only quite distinct from the classical Marxist conception in which classes are defined on the basis of property relations — neither is it reducible to the sociological conception of ‘ occupational class ’ . |
| 26 | Is it opposite to the one we 've got |
| 27 | So you 'll be discussing all this tonight , and is it open to the public ? |
| 28 | Kim Il Sung presented a report in which he deplored the division of Korea , which was itself attributable to the machinations of the Americans . |
| 29 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 30 | Lowell sensed that there was something more to the question than a further sounding-out about a commercial proposition . |