Example sentences of "is to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these is to Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the border of Switzerland and Austria . |
| 2 | It is to Foucault and to Jameson that we now turn . |
| 3 | It 's not as far to Chester as it is to Swansea is it ? |
| 4 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |
| 5 | Reggae is to Jamaica as calypso is to Trinidad . |
| 6 | The way she 's she is to Sammy she 's , she 's awful to her ! |
| 7 | Wholegrain mustard is to Dijon what wholemeal is to brown flour . |
| 8 | This mysterious drug has not been identified by botanists , but from the time of Solon to that of Caesar it was to Cyrene what sherry is to Spain . |
| 9 | As Fazzi Brothers is to Glasgow and the west of Scotland , the magisterial Italian food and wine merchant Valvona and Crolla is to Edinburgh and the east . |
| 10 | In odd-numbered years , entry is to Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University . |
| 11 | Timber is to Sarawak what gold was to Klondike : the fast track to wealth and prosperity . |
| 12 | Apart from China , it is to Japan that we must look for the largest influence on the martial arts . |
| 13 | Bernstein 's classic , a 20th century version of the Romeo and Juliet story transferred to Manhattan , and a biting commentary on contemporary life in any big city , with its bitter gang rivalries , is just as relevant to Belfast today as it is to New York . |
| 14 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 15 | It would be an exaggeration to say that An Teallach is to Dundonnell as the Matterhorn is to Zermatt , yet mountaineers do come to Dundonnell because of An Teallach . |
| 16 | Grimbergen to Brussels is like White Waltham is to London , and I have very close connections with both . |
| 17 | It would be an exaggeration to say that An Teallach is to Dundonnell as the Matterhorn is to Zermatt , yet mountaineers do come to Dundonnell because of An Teallach . |
| 18 | ‘ Can you tell me how far it is to Karlovy Vary and Františkovy Láznë ? ’ she asked the male receptionist when she reached her hotel . |
| 19 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 20 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 21 | He said : ‘ His loyalty therefore is to Tyneside and not to Darlington . |
| 22 | It is to Bridgend 's credit , their pack and the battling scrum-half Kevin Ellis , that they did not wilt when others would have submitted . |
| 23 | Donald Gordon , when president of the Canadian National Railway , went so far as to say ‘ What Robert Burns is to Scotland , Edna Jacques is to Canada ’ . |
| 24 | This might now be more applicable to areas like southern Italy , where massive state intervention since the 1950s has resulted in a patchy , vulnerable and fragile industrial growth and in considerable changes in the political culture of the region , than it is to Scotland , the Basque Country or Northern Ireland , where , as Tom Nairn observed in the 1970s , the peripheral regions have relatively industrialised , middle-class cultures . |
| 25 | Time to reflect that the next deployment is to Denmark in the autumn , then Norway in winter , before the delights of northern Italy in spring . |
| 26 | Another trip worth taking time for is to Berchtesgaden , Hitler 's Eagle 's Nest which was his ‘ country retreat ’ when the pressures of life were getting too much for him . |
| 27 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 28 | The Red Fort is to Delhi what the Colosseum is to Rome or the Acropolis to Athens : it is the single most famous monument in the city . |
| 29 | ‘ Rodeo is to the United States what bullfight is to Europe : a ludicrous and cruel exploitation of animals which honours neither those who watch nor those who take part in such buffoonery , ’ she wrote to the mayor , Domninique Baudis. — Reuter |
| 30 | Embedded Sparc system supplier , Force Computers Inc , Campbell , California is to OEM graphics accelerators from UK firm Du Pont Pixel , Egham , Surrey . |