Example sentences of "[ex0] be [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw in the previous section that there are limits to rationality , and that thought can and does break through those limits on different levels . |
| 2 | Common sense may tell us something different : that there are limits to growth ( or more accurately , perhaps , to real disposable income ) , imposed not so much by the depletion of fossil fuels and mineral which worried the Club of Rome , but by numbers of people and the cost of a worldwide defence of the environment . |
| 3 | There are advantages to self development . |
| 4 | In addition , there are obstacles to routine antibiotic prophylaxis in Africa . |
| 5 | ‘ There are stages to technology , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Loose fit ’ , in a word , works better in poetry than ‘ tight fit ’ ; there are roads to wisdom besides the painstaking perverse originality of twentieth-century writers . |
| 7 | There are approaches to understanding and theorising self which depart radically from the humanist paradigm . |
| 8 | ‘ There are disadvantages to marriage . |
| 9 | What the team demonstrated first of all was that there are attitudes to safety such as ‘ accidents will happen ’ and , when contractors are involved , ‘ accidents will definitely happen . ’ |
| 10 | There are dangers to life . |
| 11 | There are references to madeira wine at the Courts of sixteenth-century Europe and in the works of Shakespeare . |
| 12 | There are references to mustard in Shakespeare : it is the name of one of the fairies in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Mustard-seed , and in Henry IV , Part 2 , Shakespeare refers to " Tewkesbury mustard " , Tewkesbury then being the centre for making it . |
| 13 | The evidence not surprisingly shows that there are gains to acquiree shareholders , given the need to pay a premium to persuade them to part with control . |
| 14 | There are drawbacks to injection too , Mr Hann points out . |
| 15 | As a cultural formation it was of type ( iii ) , though there were overlaps to membership of political societies , within the broad formation ( e.g. , the Revolution Society ) . |
| 16 | He looked around the carriage to see if there were reinforcements to hand , but it did not look promising . |
| 17 | If you have to test an something , then there 's economy to scale if you test the ten things instead of one . |
| 18 | The Bill will work better if it is implemented properly , if there is access to training for all who want it , if there are flexible patterns of employment to enable nurses to stay in the work force following post-basic training and if community care — where they will be doing their work — is implemented and fully funded . |
| 19 | The storm also caused a landslide in the Tywyn and Bryncrug area of South Meirionnydd , where there was damage to property and part of the track of the narrow gauge Tal y Llyn Railway . |
| 20 | Within North Yemen there was opposition to unification among some militant Moslem Brotherhood groups , on the grounds that the Islamic basis of legislation in the Moslem north could be undermined by the " pagan-dominated " Marxist southern Yemen Socialist Party ( YSP ) . |
| 21 | An informal attempt to provide more official information was begun in 1977 when following the " Croham Directive " there was encouragement to government departments to make available background material relating to policy studies and reports . |