Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 2 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 3 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 4 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 5 | A further deduction was to the mine club which covered the miner and his family 's medical expenses , and in the case of his death , if they were lucky … a coffin ! |
| 6 | The most serious damage was to the Bank of China 's amour-propre . |
| 7 | The second plea was to the regime for ‘ clear and convincing steps ’ towards putting the country on a just , democratic and socialist course . |
| 8 | He says that the real cost was to the public . |
| 9 | The Commonwealth became to politicians and men of affairs what Indirect Rule was to the DO — a chance to display those qualities which justified them in the possession of an empire , and thereby ensure its perpetuation . |
| 10 | Her first responsibility was to the children , she acknowledged with a sigh . |
| 11 | The alleged libel was to the effect that there was extensive bribery and corruption in three departments of the council and that the council were ‘ either parties thereto or culpably ignorant thereof . ’ |
| 12 | Their first allegiance was to the Messiah whose embrace they eagerly awaited . |
| 13 | In the first two years of this period President Milton Obote 's party , the United People 's Congress ( UPC ) formed a coalition with the Kabaka Yekka ( KY ) Party whose support was entirely drawn from the Buganda people , and whose ultimate loyalty was to the kabaka who was also appointed President of Uganda . |
| 14 | One application was to the biscuit dough mixing process , the other to the weighing of packed biscuits . |
| 15 | Alastair Croall , Earlston club secretary , said last night the SRU had informed them that the only appeal was to the union 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 16 | Alastair Croall , Earlston club secretary , said last night the SRU had informed them that the only appeal was to the union 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 17 | How valuable this Romanian channel of military information was to the Pentagon may be doubted , but it is revealing of the extent of Ceauşescu 's duplicity . |
| 18 | The small Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) — whose ideological position was to the right of the LDP — also pledged its support to the government . |
| 19 | The only possible way was to the north-east and east along Glen Spean where a level contour could be maintained for nearly twenty miles until , at Tulloch , the first opportunity of circumventing the mountain barrier was presented by the deep trench of Loch Treig to the south and reached by a steep gradient . |
| 20 | His outstanding contribution was to the Dictionary of National Biography , for which he wrote 778 biographies covering the period from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries . |
| 21 | This time it is clear that the new foundation was to the Viscount 's detriment and was expected to anger him . |
| 22 | This was a splendid late flowering of the ‘ Orientalist ’ style , and was to the British in India what the Spanish mission-station style was to the United States . |
| 23 | In these pleasant surroundings , we ‘ bagged ’ several of the main peaks , but the most interesting and spectacular walk was to the summit of a mountain called Koh , in the far north of the range . |
| 24 | Spanish hostility was obviously a handicap to it , but when the charter was declared void in 1624 it was mainly because the Company was bankrupt ; the Spanish objection was to the colony rather than to the Company , and the colony was allowed to survive . |
| 25 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 26 | His last expedition was to the volcanoes of Indonesia and the Philippines . |