Example sentences of "is [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To read We is constantly to hive to rethink the issue . |
| 2 | Is away to work ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Central America is home to maize , tomatoes and cocoa . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The Artist 's gift is always to creation itself , to the ultimate meaning of life , to God . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It takes time for any new middle class to realise that there is more to life than the sudden enjoyment of prosperity . |
| 11 | There is more to life than the mind , young woman . ’ |
| 12 | There is more to motherhood than this , of course ; it is a source of vital feelings and responses which come about no other way . |
| 13 | However , there is more to marriage than family structure . |
| 14 | But there is more to pollution than meets the eye . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 17 | ‘ There is more to Operation Blade than simply an amnesty . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | As these examples suggest , there is more to weediness than meets the eye . |
| 20 | There is more to partnership than juxtaposition and faith . |
| 21 | There is more to training than attending courses . |
| 22 | There is more to crime and criminals than the state reveals . |
| 23 | ‘ There is more to fishing than just to fish ’ and how right he was . |
| 24 | And there is more to politics than economics . |
| 25 | But we also acknowledge that there is more to politics than choosing the next Government and what that Government attempts to do when in office . |
| 26 | Speech is , of course , in its very nature a highly organised and complex sequence of sounds , but there is more to speech and language than sequential motor activity ( Poeck and Huber , 1977 ) . |
| 27 | The next test is more to Beau 's liking — dealing with a mob that gets out of control . |
| 28 | There is more to planning than law . |
| 29 | The only way to discover what on earth this means is probably to fork out £60 for the ten-week course or £48 for the eight-week course . |
| 30 | The group is also to affiliate to Mencap , Britain 's largest voluntary organisation for mentally handicapped children and adults and their families . |