Example sentences of "[adv] be to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 2 | Presumably he had become as immune to disgust as he obviously was to the sweet-sour smell of his mortuary . |
| 3 | This RS1000 , he informs me , has already been to the Arctic about six times . |
| 4 | I do n't think any MP has ever been to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , actually . |
| 5 | On the other hand , they were far more sensitive than we now are to the instinctive or innate bases of human social behaviour . |
| 6 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 7 | Commentary : Here 's to the wobbly bits |
| 8 | This was known as — ‘ Here 's to the next time ’ and was followed by a man 's voice which says — ‘ Good evening ladies and gentlemen . |
| 9 | Here 's to the next five years . ’ |
| 10 | Thanks to Scottish Amicable and here 's to the next competition . |
| 11 | Thank , CCPR — and here 's to the next 50 years ! |
| 12 | Here 's to the 800th issue , due out on Monday 17th of July in the year 2000 . |
| 13 | The resemblance here is to the great nineteenth century Reviews , the Edinburgh , the Quarterly , the Westminster , and others , which did include some scientific works among their criticism but were chiefly concerned with literature , history and politics . |
| 14 | A possible place to save the contents of the program counter ( that is , the address of the instruction following the subroutine call ) is in a suitable store location in the subroutine , typically its first location ; the subroutine jump will then be to the second location of the subroutine . |
| 15 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 16 | He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all . |
| 17 | That 's not to say that it is a waste of time reading it even if you have never been to the remote geographical placement . |
| 18 | ' Well , none of it is true — I 've never been to the Royal College of Art — or any college of art for that matter . |
| 19 | In addition , he had never been to the big house and had no idea where to go , or whom to see . |
| 20 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 21 | He has actually been to the actual America — and come back . |