Example sentences of "as be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Charles and his family lived in the southernmost house and shop on the east side of the street , a fact confirmed by a deed of 1783 which defined the property in question as being immediately to the north of a stable , killing house and other buildings owned by Daniel Rossiter , clothier . |
| 2 | His ethnographic boundaries can not be described as being geographically to the north of anywhere , for they are around him and within . |
| 3 | The purpose of his investigation has been widely interpreted as being partly to ‘ get to the truth ’ and partly to assuage public opinion . |
| 4 | Applied to directors , this would mean that they would be required to exercise such care and skill as is reasonably to be expected of a person occupying the relevant position . |
| 5 | Muddles in language often occur ( as is only to be expected ) in the petitioner 's question rather than in the jurist 's answer . |
| 6 | Businessmen are complaining loudly , as is only to be expected . |
| 7 | As was only to be expected , the Tory press eagerly took up the cry . |
| 8 | As was often to be the case , action by the French in lands adjoining the duchy of Aquitaine provoked the Plantagenet regime to do likewise . |