Example sentences of "they are [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details held against books and the people they are on loan to are very detailed . |
| 2 | Shearer , still the Premier League 's leading scorer with 22 goals , will miss Blackburn 's bid to reach Wembley in the FA Cup — they are at home to Sheffield United in the quarter-finals — and also the bulk of England 's qualifying programme . |
| 3 | These kinds of contact are easy to make for they are of benefit to both sides . |
| 4 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 5 | Road junctions are few and they are of importance to travellers and especially to tourists on a first visit . |
| 6 | For example , I have not concentrated much on the work of Steven Jones and related experiments that claim to see neutrons at levels near to background ; if real , they are of interest to science but have nothing to offer as such solutions to the world 's energy problems , at least not in the grandiose form claimed on behalf of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 7 | Charlie , Avant-Garde stylist of the Year , holds very strong views about client relations and they are like music to the ear . |
| 8 | Use prominent and clear price tickets ( but make sure they are in proportion to the size of the goods ) . |
| 9 | We counsel people if they are in debt to other organisations as well as ourselves we offer money advice to help them to manage their debts so that they pay off all the debts at |
| 10 | In the second stage , usually identified with areas 18 and 19 ( also known as prestriate cortex ) , information about where things are on the retina is lost and replaced with information about where they are in relation to each other . |
| 11 | The further risk both the vendor and purchaser will wish to minimise is alerting the particular customer or supplier as to how significant they are in relation to the business . |
| 12 | Delusions are based on wishes too , but they are in contradiction to reality . |