Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 2 | Helping her to progress from the infant she was to the adult she will become is , I believe , the hardest task of parenting . |
| 3 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 4 | Philip , tetrarch of the lands of Ituraea and Trachonitis which was to the north east of the Sea of Galilee . |
| 5 | The press-book heralded Black Legion as the ‘ Truest To Life Film Ever Made ’ and if this claim was meant to refer to the actual Detroit trial it was to the settings of the film that the most audiences would have applied it . |
| 6 | When he returned to Africa to work in journalism it was to the Gold Coast he came in 1934 . |