Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 2 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
| 3 | In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties . |
| 4 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 5 | The public gave it early notice : the critics were again kind to Burton . |
| 6 | Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’ |
| 7 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |