Example sentences of "[noun prp] was to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was as inflexible in his allegiance to Amun and the old gods as Surere was to the Aten , and during the reign of Akhenaten he had fled to the oasis of Kharga to escape death . |
| 2 | In fact , cruel strategic reality , as well as Ceauşescu 's commitment to communism , meant that Romania could never become to the United States what Cuba was to the USSR . |
| 3 | Simon was to the point : ‘ It is impossible to credit any single hairdresser , so I would like to put forward three greats — Trevor Sorbie and Anthony Mascolo ’ . |
| 4 | Portugal Place was to the supply of horse shit what Wimbledon ‘ insiders ’ are to Centre Court tickets on final days . |
| 5 | Charlie Wilson was to the fore again on the very next mission , another long haul to Sorau on April 11 . |
| 6 | The move to Bernard Ecclestone 's Brabham was to a team which had a lot going for it — it was owned by the man who was consolidating his hold on FI and had an outstanding engineer in Gordon Murray — and one serious defect . |
| 7 | What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi , the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants . |
| 8 | What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi , the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants . |
| 9 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |