Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is a challenge to our Church to be a more cross-oriented fellowship , living it , and working out what it means . |
| 3 | Then he added : ‘ Perhaps it is a solution to their difficulties . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps it was a reversion to humane behaviour after Stalin 's terror techniques . |
| 5 | So it was a shock to them when , during lunch that Thursday , Jones announced that his Brigham Young University team was preparing to publish its data and offered to let Fleischmann and Pons publish simultaneously . |
| 6 | Usually it was a relief to be free of those gentle and accusing ghosts , which in the last few months had visited her less often . |
| 7 | Often it is a response to increasing international competition and may take the form of closure of branches of multinational corporations . |
| 8 | Today it is a tribute to the French architects and craftsmen who have been restoring it so faithfully ever since . |
| 9 | Well it 's a threat to your personal safety . |
| 10 | ‘ And besides it was a shock to the system — I really believed you capable of all those awful ideas ! ’ |
| 11 | It was not in this case a call to work in a particular area of the community , but rather it was a call to intimacy . |
| 12 | MAYBE IT was a reaction to seeing too many Ford Fiestas with back window stickers pleading ‘ Save The Cairngorms ’ just above the one with a rainbow saying ‘ There Is Hope ’ . |
| 13 | Maybe it was a reaction to William 's grandad and his wicked flaunting of convention . |
| 14 | Yeah , mi mind you , though , if Pete does it with everyone , then it 's a change to what 's been going on usually , it would be nice for a change . |
| 15 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 16 | It is clear that a gift can amount to a potentially exempt transfer if it is an outright gift to an individual or it is a gift to an accumulation and maintenance trust or indeed it is a gift to a trust under which the beneficiary has an interest in possession . |
| 17 | Indeed it is a testimony to the value of computers that these poor souls still continue the struggle with the machine . |
| 18 | The Russians were determined to remove every last item of its inventory , down to the lavatory brushes and the steel tracks on which the dockyard trains ran : indeed it was a miracle to me that they did not demand the cobblestones as well . |
| 19 | Yet it is a testimony to the strength of party during this period that the Court , despite the resources of patronage at its disposal , largely failed to establish itself as an independent interest . |