Example sentences of "[be] [det] [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other assessment and gatekeeper roles exist because , at least in the past , there have been few alternatives to doctors as sufficiently skilled and entrusted guardians of limited public resources . |
| 2 | Initial reports from the site indicated that there had been some damage to buildings at the camp site , some distance from the gas plant , but that the plant itself remained unscathed . |
| 3 | The circular says that ammonia , hydrocarbons and water can be used instead of CFCs for refrigeration ; carbon dioxide and pentane can be used in foams ; and there are many alternatives to CFCs in solvents . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a damned disgrace and wo n't be any help to pensioners like myself , ’ Mrs Bryce , 81 , said after watching the Chancellor 's speech at her flat in Dalry , Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Only if the lowering of production costs results in lower prices will there be any benefits to consumers . |
| 6 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
| 7 | Throughout the poem there are several references to birds . |
| 8 | there had been several accidents to conductors swinging along the open-sided cars . |
| 9 | It is only then that schools can explore whether there are any patterns to pupils ' absence . |
| 10 | All of them still possessed big overseas empires , in spite of the losses sustained by Spain and Portugal , and they were all heirs to traditions of worldwide enterprise . |
| 11 | Many of the shows were successful and there were many invitations to parties . |
| 12 | The first , emphasised in the traditional readings of , say , Schopenhauer and Regan , is that kindness to animals is only of value as a psychological cause of human fellow-feeling . |
| 13 | And there is this directive to cadres saying we are returning to land reform . |
| 14 | But for Mr Prokhorov , there is another side to things . |