Example sentences of "be to [art] [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 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 14 | But to be paid for playing — well , that 's something that I do n't think would be to the overall benefit of the games . ’ |
| 15 | One possible application of the proposals would be to the Civil Aviation Authority , which desperately needs new capital to deal with the problems of air traffic congestion in Europe . |
| 16 | The Grand Tour of Italy was like what National Service used to be to the young men of our country . |
| 17 | Now what would that be to the nearest metre ? |
| 18 | So what would that be to the nearest metre ? |
| 19 | How long was Errol Flynn 's nob reputed to be to the nearest inch ? |
| 20 | Instead of the public sector having the advantage of free or subsidised services , the higher the charge the nearer it will be to the private alternative . |
| 21 | It had made its participation conditional on the undertaking that at least 60 per cent of the bank 's total lending should be to the private sector , with no more than 40 per cent for infrastructure projects . |
| 22 | The supply does not need to be to the ultimate consumer . |
| 23 | And I think you will agree it will be to the best advantage of all if the holidays were curtailed . |
| 24 | A possible place to save the contents of the program counter ( that is , the address of the instruction following the subroutine call ) is in a suitable store location in the subroutine , typically its first location ; the subroutine jump will then be to the second location of the subroutine . |
| 25 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 26 | If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice . |
| 27 | A puff it may be to the deposed kings of world rugby , but the Taiwanese are taking the training stint , which will be used as a build-up to September 's Asian tournament , in deadly earnest . |
| 28 | That has to be to the long-term benefit of the profession and of the wider community . |
| 29 | Such changes would be to the long-term good of the United Kingdom 's economy . |
| 30 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |