Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Over 150 states are now parties to these conventions — by far the highest number of states parties to any laws-of-war agreements .
2 Researchers are usually outsiders to the situations they study .
3 They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol .
4 This year more than a thousand kids are here thanks to members of Rotary District 1100 .
5 Chapels are not improvements to coal houses .
6 SCOTTISH salmon steaks are down £1 to £3.99 for 3lb at Asda .
7 Severn Trent Water , for example , supplies a free meter , and d-i-y costs are around £30 to £70 .
8 Individuals are neither slaves to their attitudes , nor are they necessarily masters of their own destiny .
9 Recognise that alcohol , cannabis , cocaine , LSD , heroin , Methadone , minor tranquillisers , sleeping tablets and many other mood-altering substances are all cross.addictive to sufferers from addictive disease and that all these drugs feed the disease regardless of whether they are legal , illegal or medicinally prescribed .
10 Pigs are also hosts to various parasites .
11 " Ah , no , although they do represent food and , well , family prestige , all these sacrifices are essentially offerings to the gods .
12 THE five-year-old boys and girls listen attentively as their teacher explains that men who live with men are not figures to be frightened of .
13 Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’
14 Earnings per share fell from 24.4p to 17½p but dividends are up 0.2p to 10.2p with a final of 6.2p payable June 10 .
15 North Atlantic prawns are down £1.69 to £4.29 , and breaded scampi is £1.99 for 400g , down £1 .
16 In the first attempts to write words the letters are just shapes to be copied like any other shapes .
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