Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extremely positive it sta , it clears these points up and and answers most of these questions so I would urge Mr Chairman that to on sheer education , on terms of provision of services , I 'm not party to all of the politics , I agree with what you said , absolutely crazy . |
| 2 | I 'm also godfather to one of his children . ’ |
| 3 | Well erm if , if our Carl 's coming straight home it 'll be about quarter to seven . |
| 4 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 5 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
| 6 | Section 2(3) ( a ) of the 1957 Act provides that where a person enters in the exercise of his calling , the occupier may expect that that person will appreciate and guard against risks which are ordinarily incident to that calling ( Roles v Nathan and General Cleaning Contractors v Christmas ) . |
| 7 | The Company is not party to any arrangement to enable any Director or his family to acquire benefit through the acquisition of any shares , debentures or loan stock of any other company . |
| 8 | It is not material to any issue before the court , but I should record that on 26 March 1991 the board of Lautro considered whether intervention remained justified in the light of information that had come to their knowledge since 30 October 1990 . |
| 9 | It 's not quarter to three here — it 's quarter to three at Paddington ! |
| 10 | There again erm I think there 's still on the windows here , there 's still reference to one of the coal merchants I think is n't there ? |
| 11 | The minister in charge of the Overseas Development Administration , Mr Chris Patten , is a keen green , and helped to write Mrs Thatcher 's how-green-I-am speech to last year 's Tory party conference . |
| 12 | Among some indigenous groups there is also resistance to any kind of integration with ladino society which means denying their own culture and becoming ‘ Spanish ’ . |
| 13 | Well it 's about quarter to seven so I suppose you 're soon going to be off . |
| 14 | The Moor is n't kind to those lightly clad . " |
| 15 | The rainforest is a tightly knit ecosystem but one that is only vaguely understood ; which is why damage to any part of it can never be exactly limited . |
| 16 | This is why access to safe , reliable , legal abortion is what most women want . |
| 17 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
| 18 | Nothing was omitted , no aspect of her being was not party to this miraculous moment of ultimate sharing , and in the final vibration of the after-shock set up by the last incredible convulsion of ecstasy , she heard Luke gasping her name and understood that she did n't hate him and never had . |
| 19 | A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said on July 6 , however , that Pakistan was not party to any attempt to evade export controls . |
| 20 | ‘ But he was always kind to those who were around . ’ |
| 21 | And th it was about quarter to nine . |
| 22 | It was about quarter to eight before everybody , well after that |
| 23 | She was consistently kind to faded little Miss Fogerty and very willing to show her new methods of threading beads and making plasticine crumpets , explaining patiently , as she did so , the psychological implications behind these activities in words of three or , more often , four syllables . |
| 24 | The policy they embraced was however anathema to many Conservatives , who rightly saw in it the beginning of the end of British rule in India . |
| 25 | So you see he was very happy , very flattered to be bought drinks in The Bar , and this life with hardly any money at all was why listening to other people 's classical music on their expensive sound systems was a real and true idea of luxury to him . |