Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF RAGS to riches is still the American dream , William Casey lived his own version of it . |
| 2 | The problem of filling quotas to specification is probably the most severe disadvantage of a participant-observation study ; since the groups studied are self-recruited , the fieldworker by definition relinquishes control over choice of subject . |
| 3 | The summer visitors to Trebetherick were generally the families of retired headmasters of minor public schools , of ex Indian Civil servants or of Harley Street doctors . |
| 4 | My attitude to life is probably the same as most people 's . |
| 5 | This greener-than-thou attitude to nature is neither the traditional ethic of countryside husbandry , nor is it grounded in scientific ecology . |
| 6 | But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement . |
| 7 | This change of emphasis from cash to produce is probably the most difficult mental hurdle . |
| 8 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 10 | Some suggest that the value of BSRI androgyny to women is simply the value of masculinity . |
| 11 | Its position in relation to history is therefore the same as that of primitives to the eternal past : in Sartre 's system , history plays exactly the part of a myth . |
| 12 | The lords ' position was still fundamentally weak , and the shortage of labour in relation to land was now the main characteristic of the English rural economy . |
| 13 | The regime 's tendency to conservatism was all the more serious because it coincided with huge socio-economic upheavals associated with modernization and the coming to maturity of the postwar baby boom . |
| 14 | INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE , 1987 Nouvel 's greatest triumph to date was also the first of President Mitterrand 's ‘ Grands Projets ’ and subsequently became the first building in a Western country to receive an Aga Khan Award . |
| 15 | The overall low significance correlation with adherence to programme is probably the unsurprising finding that projects which are technically successful at most stages tend to slip less than those which are not . |
| 16 | A visit to Salcey is all the more rewarding and exciting if you manage to see even a few of its shy inhabitants . |