Example sentences of "be to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl . |
| 2 | He likes the blend of the two jobs , the one selfish because successful sportsmen must be to a greater or lesser degree , the other caring . |
| 3 | When I was about ten years old , a trip to the village from the South end was a bigger thrill than a trip to a big city would be to a present day child , later working in the village as a teenager , the dances every Saturday and Monday night was enjoyment never to be forgot . |
| 4 | Priced £18.95 , the book is aimed to be as useful to a PC novice as it would be to a seasoned user . |
| 5 | If that failed , the next move would probably be to a Federal penitentiary where a fight in the yard or a sudden bout of pneumonia would secure his silence for good . |
| 6 | Last-making will be to a higher standard . |
| 7 | The introduction of new technology is only one aspect of problem solving in marginal areas and the desirable overall policy package may be to a substantial degree indivisible since changing one part may affect one or all of the other parts at a local , regional , national or European Economic Community ( EEC ) level . |
| 8 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 9 | It is necessary for normal science to be to a large extent uncritical . |
| 10 | Their conclusion was that most of the road signs in such studies are in fact initially detected and that differences found between signs and the poor overall performance in the Johansson and Rumar study must be to a large extent a memory effect . |
| 11 | There is no appeal from the decision of a county court registrar to the county court judge ; the appeal must be to a single judge -of the High Court ( Re a Debtor ( No 39 of 1974 ) ( 1977 ) 3 All ER489 ) . |
| 12 | Market reports suggest that the sale will not be to a local business . |
| 13 | For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants . |
| 14 | In ( 157 ) the reference seems to be to an active or working principle whose action is represented as coinciding in time with the functioning of the sewing machine . |
| 15 | Well Michael says you have n't been to a decent service for six weeks , till back . |
| 16 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 17 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 18 | Anyone who has ever been to a similar school will know exactly what I mean . |
| 19 | I know they wo n't consider me her kind , her havin' been to a fancy school , an' the typin' stuff an' all . |
| 20 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 21 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 22 | ‘ I was with British Steel before coming here and had never been to a live theatre show before except the pantomime as a kid . |
| 23 | I 've been to a Beamish museum |
| 24 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 26 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 27 | Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night |
| 28 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 29 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 30 | I have been to a large number of conferences and met many general practitioners , including many from my hon. Friend 's district . |