Example sentences of "be to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 2 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 3 | McQueen , a genuine Highlander , kept the inn ( such as it was ) at Anoch and he brought Johnson the closest he had yet been to the controversies of the recent Stuart cause . |
| 4 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 5 | I wonder if he 's been to the doctors with it . |
| 6 | For example , people working here in acoustics and radiation physics never know which SERC committee will finally examine their applications — some of our recent applications have been to the committees for Biology , Chemistry , Chemical Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Polymer Engineering , the joint SERC/SSRC committee or even sent off to ARC . |
| 7 | ‘ He has n't been to the baths for months . ’ |
| 8 | I reckons they 've been to the baths in Silchester Road . |
| 9 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been to the police about this and they are trying to take it further . |
| 11 | Have you ever been to the pictures in that po , in erm oh what do you call the ? |
| 12 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 13 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of my monuments are to the victims of Fascism , to the Partisan movements . |
| 15 | His hands were to the buttons of her dress . |
| 16 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 17 | They had both lost their fathers in the same year , Preston 's having fallen victim to leukaemia , William 's to the charms of Another Woman , and this had left William 's grandad as the only adult male presence in both households . |
| 18 | Although the two men rode together to Granada , Rodrigo made the mistake of pitching his tents closer than Alfonso 's to the walls of the city . |
| 19 | A very popular day excursion is to the Isles of Scilly , either by helicopter or ferry . |
| 20 | So it is to the consequences of structural change for the economics of global competition and the adjustments of firms ' strategies that we now turn . |
| 21 | It is to the processes of this second reformation that Hilton now turns in chapter seventeen onwards , likening them to the gradual progress in recovery of full health after the medicine that effects the basic cure of the disease ( spiritually speaking , penance ) . |
| 22 | It is to the details of transport developments before 1815 that we must now turn . |
| 23 | If you have doubts about the quality of a witness work out how important their evidence is to the issues in the case . |
| 24 | Nevertheless Chilperic I complained that his treasury was always empty because of the church , while one retainer of a Merovingian prince attributed this penury to St Martial and St Martin , that is to the churches of Limoges and Tours . |
| 25 | But it is to the peoples of Africa that the news gave the greatest happiness . |
| 26 | Mm , that was to the bits in the middle , do n't tell you that |
| 27 | The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed . |
| 28 | His last expedition was to the volcanoes of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 29 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 30 | The occasion for the controversy was the foundation of a central agency to produce goods for sale by Co-operative stores ; and it was to the workers in the agency 's factories that the question related . |