Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer 1992 was a good year for casual spawnings , and my smaller pond is home to countless Orfe and goldfish fry . |
| 2 | The Essex coast is home to numerous species of birds , such as the Brent Goose , Shelduck , Black-tailed Godwit and Sanderling . |
| 3 | The land of the rising sun is home to short , impassive and incredibly clever people who feed their brains with raw fish , while Flanders is full of immensely fat , stupid people who quaff beer and dunk their chips in mayonnaise . |
| 4 | Receivership is anathema to corporate financiers , who hate to see their fat fees going to those who just pick over the bones . |
| 5 | For him sex appeared to be a torture , where the only possibility of escape was marriage to unresponsive women . |
| 6 | Another organic textbook is Introduction to Organic Chemistry by Andrew Streitwieser Jr and Clayton Heathcock ( Collier Macmillan , 2nd ed 1981 ) which has an excellent approach to spectroscopy . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , associationism is anathema to representational theorists like Fodor ; and Fodor criticizes connectionism ( see Chapter 7 ) for inheriting all the problems of associationism . |
| 8 | This chestnut was second to Royal Cedar at Newbury last month . |
| 9 | In summer the water is home to huge plastic bathtubs in which unhappy families sit self-consciously picking at their dog 's dinners , or pudgy louts grow raucous on tinned beer . |
| 10 | An important aspect of such chaotic behaviour is sensitivity to initial conditions . |
| 11 | Of what use was mathematics to medieval Christianity ? |
| 12 | The lake is home to southern Africa 's largest populations of crocodile and hippo , the grasslands and dune forest are inhabited by buffalo and black rhino , and the estuary is an important site for migratory birds and nesting turtles . |
| 13 | Yet banks ' most compelling concern is access to precious capital , and mergers could prove one of the quickest ways to get it . |
| 14 | Anglesey SPA will protect tern colonies and Glannau Ynys Gybi SPA , on the western side of Holy Island , is important for its seabirds and choughs , while Traeth Lafan SPA on Conwy Bay is home to large numbers of wintering waders . |
| 15 | The 19 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to polar and grizzly bears , wolves , caribou and peregrine falcons . |
| 16 | Specialix got out , he says , when it found out that all an associate member got for its money was access to pre-published specifications . |
| 17 | Although his constitution was essentially a durable one ( he was " tough " , his sister , Ada , had said ) , from the earliest days of his marriage he had in fact been prey to various kinds of viral infection . |
| 18 | Again , such disorders can be mistaken for normal ageing , but can be readily rectified by eating liver , eggs and ‘ fatty ’ fish , although perhaps the best source is exposure to normal sunlight . |
| 19 | Jacob belongs to a society where a firstborn son is heir to immense and exclusive privileges . |