Example sentences of "[be] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) How meaningful would the first statement have been to you without this additional information ? |
| 2 | But we 've got a massive sackful of stuff and no one had left us a forwarding address and the landlady had n't been to us about any of them . |
| 3 | In fact it was surprising how good they were to us on most of our official visits . |
| 4 | ‘ Fat lot of use leather gear is to you under these circumstances , ’ she mumbled , and set to with her scissors to cut away his shredded clothes . |
| 5 | However , as the month progresses , you 're likely to realise how important security is to you at this time . |
| 6 | ‘ The situation in the Far East , in Asia and the Ocean expanses adjoining it , where we are permanent inhabitants and seafarers of long standing , is to us of national , state interest . ’ |
| 7 | As you know doubt are aware of the importance that it is to us in that area of the and the current enquiry that 's going on at the moment . |
| 8 | There were statements of intent , exhortations , graphs and charts all aimed at producing improvements in what was to me at that time the nebulous concept of ‘ Quality ’ . |
| 9 | Perhaps she really did little more than lend her name , but it was to her at any rate that Queen Victoria 's secretary wrote with royal support for her venture ( the Queen had also supported the Victoria Press , named after her ) . |
| 10 | It 's hard to describe how nice everybody was to us at that school . |