Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a MARTYR to my responsibilities , ’ cried Dame Edna , topping up the teapot . |
| 2 | I have n't yet married and am not in a rush to do so , so I suppose that in this regard I am a disappointment to my father , though I 'm sure he understands that it would be unfair for me to marry with my present commitment to athletics . |
| 3 | I 'm a martyr to my bowels . |
| 4 | Catriona took a look at the brown liquid and thought , ‘ I 'm nineteen years old , I 've failed all my O-grades , and I 'm a disgrace to my family . |
| 5 | There was also one piece of the jigsaw that now slotted into place : before June died , he took LSD in controlled circumstances with a therapist : ‘ I became conscious of very early emotions about not being wanted — feeling that I was a problem to my family as an infant . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was a swine to my parents for years , until I realised they were only doing the best and — the shock of it ! — that they were human too ! ’ |
| 7 | For I was a son to my father , |
| 8 | ‘ from its opening pages , Jean Greenwood 's Class Readers presents alternatives which are a challenge to our perceptions of what can be done with graded readers , and of why the alternatives might be tried … |
| 9 | The Democrat Congressman Long has given full rein to his total unworthiness as a man and as a government functionary in his dealings with a country which is a friend to his government and to his nation . |
| 10 | Richard Harris and Gene Hackman have been in Westerns before but never one as good as this ( indeed , Harris ' character 's inflation of his own pompous myth relates to the sham of his A Man Called Horse ) , which is a key to their characterisations and the way they are constantly stacked up against Eastwood . |
| 11 | Which was a relief to his replacement . |
| 12 | Whether you are a visitor to our town , or indeed live nearby , you may be surprised at the many fascinating glimpses of Old Northampton which remain and can be enjoyed . |
| 13 | You are an asset to my establishment . |
| 14 | The cast of Her Benny , the dancers in their beautiful costumes , the steel band , the police and dogs , the schoolboys who were a credit to their schools showing how football used to be played just for the game . |
| 15 | Now , since her husband turned the way he did , she 's a martyr to her nerves . ’ |
| 16 | She is a mother to the nation before she is a mother to her children , one might say . |
| 17 | She is an example to her children : ‘ do n't end up like this ’ — that is , marrying just for the sake of it someone to whom you are totally unsuited . |
| 18 | Unless they were arguing , she was a prey to her senses . |
| 19 | She was a mystery to her neighbours , whose curiosity was aroused when she was found reading the New Testament in Greek . |
| 20 | She was a party to his deception , he felt certain . |
| 21 | She was an outsider to her bones : a woman , a scientist and a non-conformist in a male , humanities and soft Anglican world . |
| 22 | If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval . |
| 23 | One was a letter to his girl ; the other was a will . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yet nowhere has there been a guide to their identification . ’ |
| 25 | For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so . |
| 26 | One , that many trade unionists work at and there 's a threat to their jobs and a threat to their future careers . |
| 27 | There 's a rawness to his perfromance and a warmth the audience enjoys . |
| 28 | There 's a pattern to their thinking and I feel as if I 'm beginning to discern it . |
| 29 | There 's a pattern to his game . |
| 30 | But obviously the answer is not to keep stepping up your operation because there 's a limit to your manpower . |