Example sentences of "be [adv] to [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park . |
| 2 | Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park . |
| 3 | Labour 's shadow chancellor John Smith unveils their alternative budget promising everyone earning up to £22,000 a year they would be better Dr Ashok Kumar launched his campaign to retain Langabrugh pledging ‘ I 'm here to Opinion polls show the Tories with a three point Labour say they would scrap the City Technology Colleges if they won power . |
| 4 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 5 | ‘ There is more to Operation Blade than simply an amnesty . |
| 6 | There 's more to garden colour than flowers alone , says Robert Pearson |
| 7 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
| 8 | It is however to oil production that India is looking . |
| 9 | While the purpose of creating commodity organisations was neither to escape liability nor to create profits for the organisation itself , but to control dealings in the commodity for the benefit of member States , the consequence has been to deprive third parties who were dealing in good faith with the organisation of a domestic judicial remedy . |