Example sentences of "be an [noun] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the First World War broke out in 1914 schools were on holiday , which proved to be an advantage to the military authorities who promptly requisitioned the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf at Doncaster and the Dundee School for the Deaf . |
| 2 | The new building will be an annexe to the existing National Library of Scotland . |
| 3 | I 've always excused myself-I 've said , I 'm kind and tolerant with everyone else , she 's the one person I ca n't be like that with , and there has to be an exception to the general rule . |
| 4 | She 's the last person that should be an exception to the general rule . |
| 5 | He 'd feel anything less than full fig would be an insult to the Old Man . ’ |
| 6 | The Portuguese Governor intervened and said such an execution on Portuguese soil would be an insult to the Portuguese Crown . |
| 7 | It would be an affront to the fundamental beliefs of many churchgoers and insensitive hypocrisy of the worst kind . |
| 8 | It applies if in all the circumstances it would be an affront to the public conscience to grant the plaintiff the relief which he seeks because the court would thereby appear to assist or encourage the plaintiff in his illegal conduct or to encourage others in similar acts : see ( 2 ) ( iii ) below . |
| 9 | Second , would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover . |
| 10 | Moreover , it should be an embarrassment to the hon. Gentlemen to be reminded that under the last Labour Government prices for domestic customers rose by 22 per cent . |
| 11 | There must surely be an end to the crazy system which pays most to those who drive the furthest , in the biggest cars . |