Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’ |
| 2 | In general , although offer letters are not legally binding , the buyer 's solicitors will insist that at least those clauses discussed below are not subject to contract , but are legally binding obligations on the parties . |
| 3 | When sold later in life , they are not subject to tax again but a dealer is subject to paying 15/115ths of his profit . |
| 4 | That that seems to me to be slightly back to front as as a justification for increasing the figures . |
| 5 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 6 | Also on the surge , they were quickly face to face with Mallachy and Rory . |
| 7 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 8 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 9 | The Manager using the system is constantly face to face with data and this increases his knowledge of the company and its personnel . |
| 10 | Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on . |
| 11 | It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions . |
| 12 | Now that 's not face to face that is on the phone . |
| 13 | There is conversation which is usually face to face but may sometimes involve telecommunication . |
| 14 | But the best communication is always person to person . |
| 15 | For diehard election party-poopers , however , there is still time to book into the election-free break being offered on Lundy Island , the National Trust 's island in the Bristol Channel . |
| 16 | But that 's still face to face you mean ? |
| 17 | There is also trip to Hall , formerly the centre of the Tyrol 's salt industry ; on to the Swarovski crystal factory show rooms where you will see glass being blown and painted , as well as having the opportunity to buy anything that takes your fancy . |
| 18 | It is now time to flesh these remarks out a little more and begin to orient the discussion toward some of the themes we shall be discussing in succeeding chapters . |
| 19 | With three children there is barely time to shit , let alone read ! ’ |
| 20 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 21 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
| 22 | After ricocheting from one emotional moment to another today , she was now face to face with possible disaster . |
| 23 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |