Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [be] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were to the 1980s what F Scott Fitzgerald was to the roaring twenties . |
| 2 | With these qualities , the Mughal gardens dotted around the subcontinent are as alien to the Indian environment as the Brighton Pavilion is to the English south coast , or the Chinese Pagoda to Kew . |
| 3 | They are to South African rugby what Cambridge University were to the English game in the mid-Seventies and , indeed , Llanelli were to Wales in the early Seventies . |
| 4 | Valeriy Kulishov , advisor to the Russian Minister for Culture on restitution matters and member of the Restitution Commission , told The Art Newspaper : ‘ The talk at the Dresden meeting was to a large extent about a legal basis , and the protocol of the meeting itself is a kind of ‘ framework ’ agreement . |
| 5 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 6 | She wanted harshness , remote ritual , a difficult kind of virtue ; what she got was an upholstered smile and an approach like a cosy London policeman 's to a well-bred drunk on Boat Race night . |
| 7 | This last was eventually taken by four emissaries from St. Andrew 's & St. George 's to a famous book-seller in Flask Walk , Hampstead . |