Example sentences of "[noun sg] was to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , useful as the clergy 's and particularly Winchelsey 's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297 , the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy , especially because they did not fight , should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence .
2 Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire .
3 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 .
4 Sometimes you 'd maybe not get a steamer for maybe maybe six weeks if the wind was to the South East .
5 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 .
6 The recipients ' entrance was to the left of the platform where the Queen was standing surrounded by Yeomen of the Guard and several grand-looking dignitaries .
7 Dancing was to the Johnny Howard Orchestra and to Tony Charles and his Trinidad Steel Band .
8 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 . ’
9 Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water .
10 There is a possibility that minister here refers to Ealdhun and that Offa was angered because Ealdhun had given his lands to Christ Church , Canterbury , without King Ecgberht 's permission , but even if this were the case , it is clear that Offa 's reaction was to the way in which Ecgberht also had made grants of land without his permission ; he revoked both Ealdhun 's donations and Ecgberht 's , not only to Canterbury but to Rochester .
11 I thought that Stacey 's conclusion was to the effect that the council had changed and was capable of internal reform .
12 The site was to the west of , though some way from , a residential area .
13 These curves were concave to the origin : the nearer the curve was to the origin the higher the level of social welfare .
14 Their first allegiance was to the Messiah whose embrace they eagerly awaited .
15 Certainly it was Bernard 's initial belief , in the early days of our marriage , that contraception was a sin : Papal authority held it to be so , and Bernard 's allegiance was to the Pope .
16 His back was to the window and he did not turn to spare a glance at the crush of the zeks who squirmed against the grime of the windows .
17 While he rose in stature , the Ward Development Company suffered crippling misfortunes , until now its back was to the wall , and Esther Ward was a desperate woman .
18 His back was to the waterway .
19 My back was to the wind which whistled coldly in the wire frame of my spectacles and cracked the loose folds of my robe .
20 This time it is clear that the new foundation was to the Viscount 's detriment and was expected to anger him .
21 One of the letters from the King was to the Pope , introducing an emissary who was to commit the King to abolish penal laws against Roman Catholics in England , to appoint a Roman Catholic Governor-General of Ireland and to admit Roman Catholic bishops to its Parliament .
22 Just how important the station was to the life of the community can be gauged from the numerous stretches of approach road and land that were improved at the ratepayers ' expense — widened , often given pavements which look particularly incongruous leading from nowhere today , and lit with gas lamps .
23 The tomb was to the left , embedded in the earth , the great white tablet stretching out towards its open mouth .
24 Britain 's highest profile space commitment was to the ESA L-SAT programme ( later called Olympus ) ; this was the high-power , high-science , satellite from which the French and Germans withdrew in order to prepare ( from 1979 ) to launch their own DBS satellite outside the ESA — for their TVSat and TDF-I efforts .
25 Commitment was to the job , to the living , not to the dead .
26 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 .
27 The tour was to the Worth Valley , via Blackburn , the Settle and Carlisle , Newcastle and Keighley .
28 My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round .
29 God 's call was to the Jew first .
30 My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland .
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