Example sentences of "they [be] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan . |
| 2 | It depends how susceptible they are to the treatment . ’ |
| 3 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 4 | The cylindrical rooms which are logically formed within the tower at several levels are usually of quite small diameter — indeed , decreasing diameter the nearer they are to the top of the tower . |
| 5 | Much depends upon the nature of the interdependencies , how critical they are to the success of SBUs and , in turn , how important those SBUs are to total group success . |
| 6 | As , of course , all novelists , however wedded they are to the idea of realism , have to do . |
| 7 | they are to the advantage of the least well off ; i.e. changes that improve the position of the least well off are to be recommended ( this is the so-called maximin rule , maximizing the position of the minimum welfare individual ) , and |
| 8 | The attainment of that general purpose and the nature of the scheme are prima facie as appropriate to the case of an unregistered company as they are to the case of a registered company . |
| 9 | They are to the effect that a refusal is reasonable if : ( i ) it is based upon the personality of the proposed assignee or upon the proposed use or occupation of the premises ; or ( ii ) it is based on the contract between lessor and lessee and it safeguards the interests granted or reserved to the lessor by the lease ; or ( iii ) it is reasonable in a general sense , taking into account the surrounding circumstances , the commercial realities of the market-place and the economic impact of an assignment on the landlord . |
| 10 | Suggestions of future disaster are never as convincing to the listener as they are to the talker . |
| 11 | The authorities ' heavy-handed intervention showed just how sensitive they were to the question of the empire 's internal diversity , for the Brotherhood 's goals were in fact much less radical than St Petersburg supposed and Shevchenko and Kulish may not even have been members . |
| 12 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 13 | However , these processes — central though they were to the success of PNP were at first given little attention in the LEA 's in-service support programme . |
| 14 | The West German Social Democrats were hostile to the whole concept , as they were to the EDC and West German rearmament , while some French Socialists were unhappy about the proposals on how the new structure would relate to Britain . |
| 15 | The American papers were an inspiration to people like John Lloyd , as they were to the group gathering 400 miles down the A1 . |