Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , plus the fact that less than 24 hours later the squad for Australia and South Africa was to named , concentrated the minds of the All Blacks most effectively . |
| 2 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 3 | It has meant an ascetic existence for Wilson , who is to protest politics what the Hackney cab is to public transport . |
| 4 | He still attends Mass on Sunday although he must be , to some of the more conventional believers kneeling beside him , what Philip Roth is to orthodox Jews . |
| 5 | WHAT J.D. Salinger is to literature and Bobby Fischer was to chess , Van Cliburn is to classical music — the great success who gives it all up , without anyone understanding exactly why . |
| 6 | The reference to a Pacific pact was to developing contacts between Rhee , Chiang Kai-shek and President Quirino of the Philippines to encourage the formation of an anti-communist front to be guaranteed by the United States . |