Example sentences of "is [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To read We is constantly to hive to rethink the issue . |
| 2 | The choice is upstream to Broomhill Bridge ( 1 mile ) or downstream to Grantown-on-Spey ( 3 miles ) . |
| 3 | Is away to work ? |
| 4 | United 's next game is away to Newcastle United on Wednesday , next Saturday they 're back at the Manor , where Barnsley are the visitors . |
| 5 | Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week . |
| 6 | Central America is home to maize , tomatoes and cocoa . |
| 7 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 8 | When the newspapers and television hold forth about football hooligans it is usually to members of groups like this that they are referring . |
| 9 | The founder 's desire is usually to hand on to his children a more prosperous business than he inherited , and under the latest provisions it will be extremely difficult to do so . |
| 10 | At a much simpler level , engineers being what they are , recognition of achievement is an effective motivator that is always to hand and , as long as it is ‘ felt fair ’ by peers , runs no great risks in being applied . |
| 11 | ‘ The Artist 's gift is always to creation itself , to the ultimate meaning of life , to God . ’ |
| 12 | This toy is still to Shanti a great treasure . |
| 13 | First , that the loyalty of most rural and many urban people is still to tribe rather than nation ; second , in the continuous drift towards authoritarian systems of government ; and , third , in the failure to resolve peacefully a system of succession of heads of state . |
| 14 | The only conceivable answer is that there is more to life than molecules ; that behind the sensory level of experience , we are dealing with a complex and dynamic tapestry of Mind energy . |
| 15 | It takes time for any new middle class to realise that there is more to life than the sudden enjoyment of prosperity . |
| 16 | There is more to life than the mind , young woman . ’ |
| 17 | There is more to motherhood than this , of course ; it is a source of vital feelings and responses which come about no other way . |
| 18 | There is more to Wittgenstein 's attitude here than a straightforward refusal to play the philosophical game . |
| 19 | However , there is more to marriage than family structure . |
| 20 | But there is more to pollution than meets the eye . |
| 21 | There is more to Dudley Hill 's startling success than graduate recruitment . |
| 22 | Clearly there is more to memory than the reproduction of numbers or lists and another distinction which has arisen is between episodic and semantic memory . |
| 23 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 24 | But there is more to Gassendi 's final position in his Exercises than this . |
| 25 | ‘ There is more to Operation Blade than simply an amnesty . |
| 26 | There is more to mountains than crashing down them . |
| 27 | As an exercise in questioning ‘ traditional ’ ideas regarding masculinity and femininity this work contends with basics such as there is more to femininity than putting on a skirt ! |
| 28 | As these examples suggest , there is more to weediness than meets the eye . |
| 29 | There is more to partnership than juxtaposition and faith . |
| 30 | We learn more about Tamburlaine as we get deeper into the play , and Marlowe carefully disguises the fact that there is more to Tamburlaine than meets the eye . |