Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twin counties of Suffolk and Norfolk are home to several courses in the higher reaches of the golfing firmament , but the region is not generally renowned as a popular destination for holiday golfers . |
| 2 | The Red-legged Tarantula from Mexico and the Zebra Tarantula from Costa Rica are examples to be seen here . |
| 3 | Leave 2345 Monday , land back at Gatwick 0815 Tuesday am Manchester to Dalaman , 4hr 40min Boeing 757 , Air 2000 Leave 2330 Monday , land back at Manchester 0900 Tuesday . |
| 4 | Although only Nicaragua and the United States were parties to the original litigation , the United States claimed that its actions in and against Nicaragua were justified as collective self-defence of the territorial integrity and political independence of those third States , in particular of El Salvador . |
| 5 | EI and CB were parties to an agreement — the Helsinki Agreement — that related to the acceptance by traders in France of Eurocheques drawn on foreign financial institutions . |
| 6 | Buxton is host to an annual summer arts festival . |
| 7 | This 400 acre nature reserve near Swanage is home to a tremendous variety of flora and fauna . |
| 8 | Midland , Texas is home to NDT 's headquarters and main manufacturing facility , and run by president , Being located in the heart of one of the largest oil producing regions in the United States has allowed NDT to develop products specifically designed to function in a reliable and cost-effective manner . |
| 9 | Ironically AMS was home to Neuron Data competitor Visix Software Inc until Visix was spun out as a separate concern back in 1988 . |
| 10 | Northamptonshire was home to the 8th Air Force from 1942–1945 at seven airfields in the County . |
| 11 | In 1977 , his playboy brother Nigel plunged to his death in his car on a mountain road in South of France — and David was heir to the multi-million empire then run by his father Cecil . |
| 12 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 13 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 14 | For instance , we mentioned England earlier : like it or not , England is Britain to most Americans . |
| 15 | Finally , if Bob claims that Alan was volenti to the risk . |
| 16 | She was , in fact , somewhat ashamed that Edna was witness to so many things which , coming from a large , poor but loving family , must surely be incomprehensible to the girl : Liza 's aversion to picking up her child , never attempting to play with Celia , her obvious relief when Edna performed such tasks which any normal mother might have been expected to undertake willingly . |
| 17 | Gregorio was apprentice to Bernini , and — ’ |
| 18 | The last published pay figure for a governor of the Bank of England was £198,546 to Mr Leigh-Pemberton for the year ending February 28 , 1992 . |
| 19 | They were married in July 1848 in Colwall , Hereford , and went to live in Crawley , where George Sumner was chaplain to his uncle John Bird Sumner [ q.v. ] , the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 20 | Ronan Rocks , Sean McGuckin , Damien Hasson , Louis McPeake and Colm O'Loughlin are others to whom manager John McGoldrick will be looking to spike Down 's guns . |
| 21 | Mr Pedley is chaplain to the Queen and preaches occasionally at one of the chapels Royal . |
| 22 | Astra is VHS to Marcopolo 's Beta . |
| 23 | The Birmingham Hippodrome is home to The Birmingham Royal Ballet ( formerly Sadlers Wells ) , which performs in the city for six weeks each year . |
| 24 | Little Samuel is testimony to that . |
| 25 | This autumn , the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond is host to another of the finest collections of Old Master paintings formed in recent times : ‘ Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings : the Harold Samuel Collection ’ runs from 13 October to 6 December . |
| 26 | Duncan is testament to the sturdiness of the Scots . |
| 27 | Strathclyde was home to the largest number , followed closely by Lothian and Tayside . |
| 28 | Everard Home was surgeon at St George 's Hospital , and Astley Cooper was surgeon to Guy 's hospital and teacher of anatomy and surgery . |
| 29 | Suddenly Louis was heir to a vast realm that excluded only Italy , which was to be a vassal kingdom tor Pepin 's son Bernard . |
| 30 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |