Example sentences of "to be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |
| 32 | Circumstances alter cases : in deep recessions the economy is likely to be to the left of point A whereas in milder recessions the economy is more likely to be to the right of point A. |
| 33 | Would n't that need to be to the power of X ? |
| 34 | I would remind you that I am the captain of this ship and that at sea not even an admiral can take over from me or give orders which I consider to be to the detriment of this vessel . ’ |
| 35 | Indeed he stated that ‘ urban units seem to be to the process of reproduction what the companies are to the production process ’ ( 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 36 | Circumstances alter cases : in deep recessions the economy is likely to be to the left of point A whereas in milder recessions the economy is more likely to be to the right of point A. |
| 37 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 38 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 39 | One : our purpose in Christ ; to be to the praise of his glory ( 1:3–14 ) . |
| 40 | Visits to Lille and visits from such important people as the Duke of Gloucester , the C-in-C , Lord Gort , and the Divisional Commander , a little Major-General called Montgomery who did n't seem to be to the liking of the younger officers . |
| 41 | And with this interjection Aggie now beat her closed fist against the end of the settle as she added angrily , ‘ If she had acted like the friend that she was supposed to be to the mother I would n't be faced with this lot tonight . ’ |
| 42 | I think in some cases , Stanley , not only in the me , medical profession the more people are paid the less committed they seem to be to the job ! |
| 43 | ‘ Well , I can appreciate they 're not exactly going to be over the moon , but this is your life we 're talking about , not theirs . ’ |
| 44 | Surely it does n't require a degree in sociology to realise that people who invest their hard-earned cash in a quality house in a quality development are not going to be over the moon at having that kind of to-ing and fro-ing take place outside their front gates ? ’ |
| 45 | I was entrenched on the top of Eagle 's Piece , with a huge stone under my wheel and the only way out seemed to be over the edge , most humiliating . |
| 46 | In tests by Gloucester trading standards officers , more than 70 per cent of caravans were found to be over the weight limit . |
| 47 | Repayment loans — customers pay fixed monthly repayments based on what the Finance House expects the market interest rate to be over the period of the loan , and at regular interval or the end of the loan , the difference between actual and estimated interest rates is calculated , and the difference is paid or received by the customer . |
| 48 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 49 | Rendezvous point was to be over the island of Euboea . |
| 50 | On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter . |
| 51 | If a ganger was working on the track and was found to be over the limit , a director or manager could be found guilty of a criminal offence . |
| 52 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 53 | An MP is judged to be over the limit |
| 54 | You do NOT need to have had any previous experience of working with mentally handicapped people as training is given , but you do have to be over the age of 21 . |
| 55 | Miriam : It 's the same situation , the men come to feel that it is their right as male persons to be over the woman . |
| 56 | 1 The centre cross of your protractor has to be over the corner of the angle . |
| 57 | if we 're going to industrialize the way has got to be through the promotion of a rich peasant economy . |
| 58 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 59 | Although some societies allow you to open a postal account at their branch , all further dealings have to be through the post so you must be prepared for the occasional delay in getting at your cash . |
| 60 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |