Example sentences of "[be] [noun] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little holes are openings to the sensory pores and if you look you will see two lines of them on the sides , the lateral lines . |
| 2 | There are trips to the ancient cities of Vienna and Innsbruck . |
| 3 | Loud music , screaming and shouting are torture to the delicate hearing apparatus of the typical feline . |
| 4 | ‘ They are traitors to the Coptic cause . ’ |
| 5 | The governing principle , therefor , in Britten 's operas is the musico-dramatic thrust , and the words he set to bring the opera about are stepping-stones to the final product . |
| 6 | Lotus Development Corp yesterday began shipments of Lotus Notes 3 , which offers cross-system support and is available in a Macintosh client and a server version for Windows and MS-DOS , and there are upgrades to the existing OS/2 server and Windows and OS/2 clients ; Notes Release 3 costs $500 for any client or server implementation . |
| 7 | The forests are home to the Mentawi tribal people , who stand to lose both their livelihoods and their homes as a result of development . |
| 8 | Elsewhere these plains are home to the great grey owl and the shy brown bear . |
| 9 | Baldersdale , one of the tributary valleys of Teesdale , has been home to the various branches of the Hauxwell family for several ( maybe countless ) generations . |
| 10 | Carter are touring America in a huge tour bus , which has been home to the ten-strong crew and band for a month-and-a-half . |
| 11 | ‘ Wolves ! ’ shouted Giles drunkenly , ‘ wolves , that 's what they are , the pack of them , they 're traitors to the human race , scavengers , look at them , look at them , wolves is too good a word for them , jackals , hyenas , that 's what they are , hyenas ! ’ |
| 12 | The main impetus for change came from Gorbachev 's close colleague , Alexander Yakovlev , who was the first Politburo member to ask publicly whether there had been alternatives to the command-administrative system . |
| 13 | Both these divisions , however , appear to have been exceptions to the normal pattern , since they raised issues concerning the Union with Scotland , complex legal technicalities , as well as personal questions of sympathy for or antipathy towards the individuals concerned , all of which placed strains on the normal political sympathies of the different peers . |
| 14 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 15 | Other choices of will thus generate fields and e which are approximations to the actual values . |
| 16 | They run in the opposite direction to the positive reactions , although there is a sense in which they too are fixations to the original trauma . |
| 17 | Community nurses are witnesses to the everyday health of the population . |
| 18 | However , there are qualifications to the above legal proposition . |
| 19 | I 'm fe , I 'm seat to the bloody right ! |
| 20 | Colonial merchants might not like the English monopoly of trade , but they wanted their markets in England , so there was unlikely to be opposition to the general principles of the Acts of Trade . |
| 21 | The London Stock Exchange requires that where the authority to buy-in shares relates to specific proposals , the circular to shareholders must state the names of the shareholders who will be parties to the proposed contract , together with all other material terms of the proposal ( para 30.4 , Chapter 2 , Section 5 of the Yellow Book ) . |
| 22 | If it ever gets them , it will probably be thanks to the Geographic Targeting Taskforce , a local activists ' group that is now beginning to make an impact on the area . |
| 23 | Hullavington will be home to the new Royal Logistic Corps — these support staff are preparing to fly out to Bosnia . |
| 24 | There should be reference to the social housing and the cross subsidy housing and the hospital at in the new plan . |
| 25 | The new VAX 10000 systems , claimed to be alternatives to the conventional mainframe , have one to four CPUs , optimised input-output and battery back-up . |
| 26 | She has agreed to be patron to the London-based Centrepoint project , which helps take vulnerable young people off London streets . |
| 27 | At both national and local levels trends can be analysed not only within churches and denominations , but across denominations , to learn from those who appear to be exceptions to the general rule . |
| 28 | Most two-syllable verbs that seem to be exceptions to the above might be interpreted as being morphologically complex ( e.g. ‘ permit ’ = ‘ per ’ + ‘ mit ’ ) , or we could simply list all such verbs as exceptions . |
| 29 | Having displayed in this clear format what has been happening , you will then be able to interpret the general trend , and raise questions regarding those years which proved to be exceptions to the overall picture . |
| 30 | As noted above , there can be exceptions to the vertical aggregate supply curve when changes are unanticipated . |