Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [noun sg] be to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has allowed itself to be outsmarted by governments who are not afraid to bend the rules in their favour , aided and abetted by American multi-nationals whose allegiance is to the United States , naturally . |
| 2 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |
| 3 | Here it will be the valley whose opening is to the west , of Cauterets . |
| 4 | Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water . |
| 5 | As Jonathan Culler points out , the pun is to the synchronic dimension of language what etymology is to the diachronic dimension ( 1988:2 ) , and Julia plays on this parallel by confusing the two . |