Example sentences of "[indef pn] is [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays , one thinks that if one is a peer , one is summoned to Parliament . |
| 2 | Tell me what this one is compared to Madge 's ? |
| 3 | Of the two species distinguished by zoologists , one is confined to Africa , the other to southern and south-eastern Asia , including India , Burma , Malaya , Indo-China , Sumatra and Ceylon . |
| 4 | We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them . |
| 5 | Not everyone is moved to tears by the fate of vultures and wolves , but it is possible to think that the old crops of predators and scavengers were somehow more attractive than the new lot . |
| 6 | And she reeled off several names and exact addresses and sent me on my way : Kerr ( ‘ Everyone is related to Kerrs ’ ) , MacMillan , Mackinnon , Lowe . |
| 7 | Not everyone is suited to neighbourhood policing . |
| 8 | Nothing is left to chance . |
| 9 | You get the feeling that nothing is left to chance . |
| 10 | Nothing is left to chance . |
| 11 | Inheriting the Greek love of order and logic , Islamic gardens — like their buildings — are regimented into lines of perfect symmetry ; balance and design is all ; nothing is left to impulse or chance . |