Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] to [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student who offered shopowners immunity from the activities of ragweek in return for donations to charity was held by the trial judge not to have used menaces . |
| 2 | The position was well illustrated by the ENB in their publicity about the introduction of the Central Clearing House : " The majority of recruits to nursing are girls aged 18–19 . |
| 3 | Martin Lester 's largest set of legs to date are no less than 20 metres ( 65ft ) long ! |
| 4 | The normal range of responses to testing was taken from 47 studies carried out on normal healthy volunteers . |
| 5 | The converse of barriers to entry are barriers to exit : it may cost firms more to quit than to stay in the market . |
| 6 | Social work with young people in the transition to or in search of alternatives to employment is one specific task singled out ( s. 13 ) and makes reference to material provision ( accommodation ) as well as to counselling and advice . |
| 7 | Its ratio of costs to income was a miserly 40% last year , good even for a thrift ; most banks would be proud of a figure below 60% . |
| 8 | World cotton consumption was a record 86m bales , and the ratio of stocks to consumption was at an all-time low . |
| 9 | Although the Central Authority initially resisted the more direct encroachment of Whitehall on the Area Boards ( successfully insisting that communication should normally be through the Authority ) , the semi-political process which determined the Whitehall allocation of resources to electricity was mirrored within the British Electricity Authority . |
| 10 | How far these variations affected the ability of tenants to sublet is difficult to determine in the absence of objective criteria . |
| 11 | Another reason why the relation of demes to city is now seen differently , and why demes now seem more important , is simply that more archaeological work has been done on deme sites . |
| 12 | The reintroduction of pupils to school is therefore given less emphasis in the Delphi Centre . |
| 13 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 14 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 15 | By contrast socialism reverses the priorities : control is more important than freedom ; and control extends to the whole of the economy , with concessions to freedom being minimal . |
| 16 | er to visit prison 's year after year after year er with children to prison 's er all over the country |
| 17 | Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb , but not as clever as a Tomahawk . |
| 18 | The exemption of gifts and bequests between spouses is certainly to be welcomed , and the amended regulations which provide reasonable scope for gifts to charity are a belated honouring of the promise in the White Paper that charities would be at least as well off as under the old estate duty . |
| 19 | Changes in attitudes to masturbation were manifest by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | The Tyne atmosphere , in the formation of which merchant navy officers have played a major role ( before the war transition from seamen to officer was not uncommon although it is very rare now ) , is well reproduced in a number of memoirs ( see Before the Box Boats by Captain A. W. King horn of Cullercoats , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal allowed her to see them , deciding that although the reports might contain information given in confidence , yet the public interest in parties to litigation being able fully to prove their case and so not be denied justice outweighed the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of pupil files . |
| 22 | Please do n't let the pattern of the change from O-levels to GCSE be repeated , introducing yet another mismatch , this time between school and university . |
| 23 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 24 | Evidence of the impact of taxation on incentives to work is fully reviewed by Brown ( 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Castle , who was attending Buckingham Palace with his wife Fiona and two of his four children , said the OBE for services to charity was ‘ marvellous — it 's what it says : the Old Boy 's Ego ’ . |
| 26 | Honoured with the MBE for services to athletics is Les Baldwin , 60 , of Snowdon Drive , Johnstown , Wrexham . |
| 27 | The answers given by members to date are given on pages seven and eight . |