Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that in your mind you should not be second to anyone . |
| 2 | You should never be party to making anyone else do anything they do n't want to . |
| 3 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll still be Tony to most people . |
| 5 | " And one day perhaps I 'll even be mum to a boy child , like all of you . |
| 6 | The pay was welcome and there might well be plunder to boot , not to mention the excitement . |
| 7 | Tretorn , in filing its complaint , believes that the EC Commission 's lawyers may have missed the significance of the word in dispute ( ‘ type ’ ) because the LTA 's previous ball agreement , ( ie the one that the EC Commission was asked to consider ) contained no written reference to pressureless tennis balls , therefore ensuring that it could not be party to such vital information . |
| 8 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 9 | Fear of the idea 's theft , lack of time , or lack of incentives may also be deterrents to the idea originator . |
| 10 | Within Renaissance writing we can discover evidence which reveals that a text 's recognition that it circulates within a powerful institutional context need not be capitulation to context , but its own powerful representation of that context . |
| 11 | As Street on Torts puts it , the basis of this authority and the defence it affords to torts such as false imprisonment ‘ is the need to maintain order in the particular organisation responsible for the training of the child ’ ; parental wishes would merely be factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a punishment was reasonable . |
| 12 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , the governor of the Bank of England , in a speech in Hamburg on Jan. 22 , maintained that " the hard ecu would not be victim to the pitfalls of other parallel currency schemes because it would be defined so that it could never be devalued against other ERM currencies in a realignment " . |
| 13 | The internationalization and concentration of capital would not be material to the control and regulation of corporate crime if transnationals were well behaved . |
| 14 | The Fife MPs , Mr Brown , Rachel Squire , Henry McLeish , Lewis Mooney and Menzies Campbell , were assured by Mr Aitken that an idea by Devonport for Rosyth to refit oil tankers would not be material to his decision about the nuclear contract . |
| 15 | This item of equipment enabled the rapid assembly features of the whole range of equipment to be fully exploited , and reduced the erection times for some major bridging operations , from what would normally be months to merely a matter of days . |
| 16 | The duty operated in the real world in which there would always be obstacles to giving every shade of opinion equal air time . |
| 17 | First , that it operates in the real world where there would always be obstacles to giving every shade of opinion equal air time . |
| 18 | ‘ I shall always be McAllister to you , I think . ’ |
| 19 | Then not ungently , ‘ I ought to tell you , they did talk to me about him , it ca n't be news to you what they are saying , that Michel has run off with your mother and that he wants to marry her . |
| 20 | That ca n't be news to you , man . |
| 21 | If by some aberration … as was Jimmy Carter … the sitting President is upset , Augusta National would again be host to the chief executive . |
| 22 | I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it . |
| 23 | ‘ I know anything you discover will only be grist to your mill ! ’ |
| 24 | For this to be conceivable a specific decision must be taken by the British Government that Britain will not be party to political union in Europe . |
| 25 | But they will always be cuties to their mums — and Hello ! readers . |
| 26 | There will always be exceptions to this classification of factors influencing motivation . |
| 27 | ‘ And you hush , too , McAllister — yes , you will always be McAllister to me , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The information gathered will also be relevancy to changing other aspects of health care related to women 's sexual behaviour , such as pregnancy , cervical cancer , and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 29 | There will also be visits to Wye College 's Agricultural Museum and the Museum of Kent Rural Life at Sandling . |
| 30 | There will also be opposition to the use of high quality agricultural land for golf courses . |