Example sentences of "[det] [be] [noun] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is thanks to the help I have received from my wife , my children , and a large number of other people and organizations . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been silent ’ ( this was news to the Lionisers ) ‘ but my lips shall be sealed no longer . |
| 3 | Mrs Thrigg ’ — Mrs Baggley had no shame in revealing her sources , all was grist to the mill . |
| 4 | In addition to the five nations that admitted , under the treaty , to the possession of nuclear weapons , no fewer than 10 others have developed or are developing the bomb , and five of those are signatories to the NPT . |
| 5 | The reasons behind playing this game were not based only on an abstract conception of duty , but also on the notions expressed in More 's conclusion to the stage managing which offered Richard III the crown : |
| 6 | ‘ It would be inconceivable , in the opinion of the Court , that Article 6(1) should describe in detail the procedural guarantees afforded to parties in a pending law suit and should not first protect that which alone makes it in fact possible to benefit from such guarantees , that is access to a court . |
| 7 | Statues were either images of deities , especially the cult-statue within a temple ; or dedications , that is gifts to the gods , set up in the temple or more often outside it in the temenos ; or they stood on graves . |
| 8 | That was music to every Englishman 's ears . |
| 9 | The likes of Polanski , Nicholson and Hopper all talked freedom — even if it was at the movies — and that was music to the ears of those who followed the anti-war , hippie-inspired trend of throwing off inhibitions , of which there were plenty of public demonstrations when the beautiful people gathered , be it Los Angeles , New York , London or Paris . |
| 10 | That was music to the ears of Tory Euro-rebels who planned to back the Labour amendment . |
| 11 | ‘ That was damage to the churn . ’ |
| 12 | They led at the interval by one goal to nil , that was thanks to an Andy Thomas goal , following a cross from Neil Waters . |
| 13 | That was Jonathan to a T. |
| 14 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |