Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The most serious damage was to the Bank of China 's amour-propre . |
| 3 | He says that the real cost was to the public . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The small Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) — whose ideological position was to the right of the LDP — also pledged its support to the government . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This time it is clear that the new foundation was to the Viscount 's detriment and was expected to anger him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |