Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are frustrated that London Weighting has consistently been used as if it were a concession to our demands . |
| 2 | Well it 's a threat to your personal safety . |
| 3 | His parents say that it 's a tribute to their son 's popularity . |
| 4 | It 's a tribute to my step-father 's life . |
| 5 | You could say it 's a return to his earlier mode , but ramified by increased stamina . |
| 6 | The man who wrote the music and compiled the volume of verse says it 's a testament to his love affair with the area |
| 7 | It 's a danger to my men and to the public . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , it 's a reply to my fax from Beryl ! ’ she exclaimed as she scanned the first paragraph . |
| 9 | It is a tribute to their strength that after all they have been through they are both still together today . |
| 10 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 11 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 12 | Perhaps Andrew 's quirkiness preferred the persistence of the myth rather than the inside story , but with his death the truth must be told , since it is a tribute to his generous nature . |
| 13 | Aquinas is right ; and it is a credit to his genius to have put animals so neatly into a perspective consistent with Wittgenstein 's analysis . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is a challenge to our Church to be a more cross-oriented fellowship , living it , and working out what it means . |
| 15 | It is a key to our lineage , a key to unlock the door of time . |
| 16 | It is a key to his selection process , a key to the training he undertakes , a key to his overall process of management . |
| 17 | Presumably there is justification when a doctor urges his patient to give up a fixed term employment because it is a danger to his health , but what of the tutor who insists that his student give up a vacation job because it will interfere with his studies ? |
| 18 | Then he added : ‘ Perhaps it is a solution to their difficulties . ’ |
| 19 | In truth , this image was never entirely fair , but it is a testament to our ability to respond to customer demand that , today , a visit to any supermarket bakery is likely to offer you the choice and quality to rival that of any traditional bakers . |
| 20 | All sensible people must with shame agree that it is a disgrace to our nation that we Germans are trying to suppress a German , to whom foreign countries have done justice by their great admiration and even by public acknowledgments in writing . |
| 21 | Ideologically , it was a return to his roots — to his obsession with the innate hostility of what he called " les féodalités " ( political parties , trade unions , special interest groups ) towards the state . |
| 22 | They seemed to feel it was a threat to their virility . ’ |
| 23 | It was a present to your mother from my father , on the day of our wedding . |
| 24 | It was a dimension to their play Forest could never match . |
| 25 | The impact itself caused severe damage to the front of and underneath the engine , but British Rail said it was a tribute to its design that there were n't any injuries . |
| 26 | It was a testimony to her parents ' efficiency . |
| 27 | But had he not fallen in with it too readily and too rapidly simply because it was a testimony to his secure tenure , a declaration before the world that he was a king indeed , and his progeny fit mates for the royalty of Europe ? |
| 28 | It was a tranquilliser to my heart . |