Example sentences of "[pers pn] be to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 2 | Looking at her he thought , ‘ Do I realize how important I am to this woman ? |
| 3 | ‘ I am to some extent on home ground there , ’ she said , reluctantly and not looking at him . |
| 4 | In other words , I was to some extent leading the British public astray . |
| 5 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 6 | Had she been to these places with Chris ? |
| 7 | Have you been to that part there ? |
| 8 | Have you been to that Nettos ? |
| 9 | Have you been to that Nettos then ? |
| 10 | Have you been to that place , Holiday Inn ? |
| 11 | Although Frank has been a director of Pearson since nineteen eighty six and those of you been to this meeting in the last few years will have seen him before I 'd like to introduce , ah , Frank to you in his new capacity Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Pearson . |
| 12 | The present crop of portrait painters is uninspiring : ‘ Have you been to any degree shows ? |
| 13 | Have you been to any castles ? |
| 14 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 15 | You are to some extent unhappy about your body and your health and you want to improve . |
| 16 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 17 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 18 | For while she was to some degree confused at that precise moment about the importance of keeping a job that paid well , she knew , whatever else was hazy , that she was very much in love with him . |
| 19 | Mary is dead , he told himself , and we are to each other for ever what was bearable only in my intuition of its impermanence . |
| 20 | Whatever we were to each other , that we still are … |
| 21 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 22 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 23 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 24 | The nearer they are to each other the greater is the field . |
| 25 | Althusser 's concept of the dialectic involves various levels of social formation that have a ‘ relative autonomy ’ , that is to say , they are to some degree self-determining . |
| 26 | Well if you take the the figures that It depends where they are to some extent . |
| 27 | They overlap but they 're to some extent slightly different criteria . |
| 28 | At least she and Dionne knew how precious they were to each other . |
| 29 | To begin with , he thought I was as close to Steve and Paul as they were to each other — and they were like a single amoeba that wo n't let anyone else into its world . |
| 30 | I saw how kind they were to each other . |