Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They represent , in large part , a reaction to the fear of many , both of being the object of never-ending and useless interventions and of being a burden to others . |
| 2 | He was charged with calling an illegal demonstration , and with being a party to violence . |
| 3 | A good cichlid to start with is a small to medium sized one such as Aequidens curviceps . |
| 4 | Liam thought long afterwards of the strangeness of those few days , and how he was brought back from what was to be a trip to America , just in time to arrange his own father 's funeral . |
| 5 | Maybe I should even feel a little flattered that you consider me sufficiently important to be a threat to Rob 's engagement . ’ |
| 6 | So when the Indians used the phrase ‘ passive resistance ’ in South Africa they were immediately considered to be a threat to person and property in the same way as the suffragettes were a threat . |
| 7 | In July this year only six per cent of those surveyed considered the Soviet Union to be a threat to Australia 's security , this figure being an all-time low . |
| 8 | Clearing the house after a relative died , I came across what purports to be a passport to Hay-on-Wye . |
| 9 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based fault-tolerant Unix systems builder , Sequoia Systems Inc , has the potential to be a $300m to $400m company within five years , chairman and chief executive Gabriel Fusco believes . |
| 10 | This was seen to be a reference to Iran 's standing position calling for the death of Salman Rushdie for the anti-Islamic " blasphemies " contained in his novel , The Satanic Verses . |
| 11 | " Well , you might turn out to be a nuisance to Edward . " |
| 12 | Nothing in the prohibition set out above shall be taken to be a direction to Norwich Union to terminate the appointment of the Winchester Group or any other person as an appointed representative . |
| 13 | This was expected to be a clue to changes in stellar magnetic fields . |
| 14 | This is claimed to be a discouragement to people who eat too much . |
| 15 | This book intentionally sets out to be a companion to art history by cataloguing movements and critics rather than artists , who are included if they have written on art . |
| 16 | Freeze-marking with a number has been proved to be a deterrent to thieves , as well as making it much easier for police to identify animals . |
| 17 | When the original phase of the development of the airfield as an industrial park was revealed , the provision was for 150 acres , building was not to extend near to the valuable runway , but it was considered to be a deterrent to property sales , so the runway would be removed . |
| 18 | ‘ You can confide in me , ’ said Annie , ‘ it 's what I 'm 'ere for , to be a help to customers . |
| 19 | Deborah Cherry of the University of Manchester has written Painting Women on the subject of Victorian women artists ( £35 ) , drawing on letters , diaries , autobiographies and contemporary papers , while The Female Nude by Lynda Nead ( £35 ) promises to be a counterblast to Kenneth Clarke 's classic . |
| 20 | Lansdowne came first because he had been leader in the House of Lords since 1902 ; he was too old to be a rival to Law and he cooperated with him fully , though not without some condescension . |
| 21 | The application must be against someone who is likely to be a party to proceedings but this can extend to cases where even the bringing of these proceedings depends on what is in the documents ( Dunning v United Liverpool Hospitals ' Board of Governors [ 1973 ] 2 All ER 454 ) . |
| 22 | ( d ) Termination of party status Any person may ask the court to order that he or another person cease to be a party to proceedings ( FPCR , r7(2) ; FPR , r4.7(2) ) . |
| 23 | ‘ She happens to be a visitor to wor house an' me ma sent us to escort her home . |
| 24 | The second is that if , following the Francovich case , there was held to be a right to damages in such circumstances , the effect of requiring an undertaking from the council would be to impose liability in damages on the council instead of on the United Kingdom which , as I understand the position , would properly be the party so liable . |
| 25 | Moreover I agree with her that , if there is to be a right to recovery in respect of taxes exacted unlawfully by the revenue , it is irrelevant to consider whether the old rule barring recovery of money paid under mistake of law should be abolished , for that rule can have no application where the remedy arises not from error on the part of the taxpayer , but from the unlawful nature of the demand by the revenue . |
| 26 | But it was not meant to be a paean to Ecstasy . |
| 27 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 28 | The ruling effectively voided the British legal notion of the " discretionary " life sentence , under which the Home Office had the power to extend prisoners ' actual terms in gaol , or detain them again after an initial release ( known as " release under licence " ) if they were deemed to be a danger to society . |
| 29 | That was to be a visit to Chinchero market on my final day . |
| 30 | Since her words did n't appear to be an invitation to food , he returned his intense concentration to the man . |