Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in Kings North Trust Ltd. v. Bell [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 119. ( ii ) Unless the contract is to the manifest disadvantage of the surety , equity will not grant relief : see National Westminster Bank Plc. |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The majority cited was not in fact the Belorussian Communists , since Russians predominated : the reference was to the Belorussian ethnic majority in the republic 's population . |
| 4 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |
| 5 | The room was to the left , fifty ch'i along the corridor , at the end of a cul-de-sac hewn out of the surrounding rock . |
| 6 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 7 | The process of psychology can become like a drug with the victim as addicted to their own helpless indulgence as the therapist is to the emotional charge that they get . |
| 8 | Some animals move far more efficiently than others , and in general the race is to the big . |
| 9 | As each excavator removes a layer of soil , decisions have to be constantly made : whether that soil is part of the layer which has just been removed or part of another layer ; where the boundaries to that layer are ; what the relationship of the layer is to the adjoining layers ; whether a soil sample is required ; and so on . |
| 10 | But for some strange reason , and I do n't know whether they direct it to Christian the last shot of the film , almost unnoticeable because the credits were going up she went back into church and it was a communion service and all you saw was her receiving the bread and passing the plate and the plate was to the young black lad on the farm and you thought , he 's come back ! |
| 11 | I thought I should let you know how valuable I think the analysis is to the conservation movement , and how helpful it is to be able to lend weight to a fresh strategy , such as that proposed in the paper . |
| 12 | The way is to the destructive element submit yourself , and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep , deep sea keep you up … ’ |
| 13 | As often as not , the injuries were to the right side of the body , as this was the side most usually exposed to the explosion . |
| 14 | He does not mention , however , the choices that have to be made during execution of such trials , the ultimate allegiance of the clinician being to each patient separately while that of the researcher is to the overall trial design . |
| 15 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |
| 16 | The nearer the temperature is to the freezing point , the more continuous is the network of associated water molecules . |