Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 2 | For the southern maps , of course , everything is reversed with respect to the northern hemisphere , and in Orion we find that Rigel is to the top left of the main pattern and Betelgeux to the lower right . |
| 3 | After a discussion she and Kim 's GP decided to refer Kim 's to the social services on 7 September . |
| 4 | This last was eventually taken by four emissaries from St. Andrew 's & St. George 's to a famous book-seller in Flask Walk , Hampstead . |
| 5 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 6 | Despite these methodological difficulties , Harris was to a limited extent able to analyse this variation quantitatively , collecting tokens from 15 hours of speech by 24 speakers . |
| 7 | ‘ And bring the whole of Florian 's to a grinding halt ? |
| 8 | Commentators on the New Testament have long recognised how vital , how indispensable , Judas is to the entire mission of Jesus . |
| 9 | They were to the 1980s what F Scott Fitzgerald was to the roaring twenties . |
| 10 | He had been unopposed at Bewdley , but his two principal colleagues , the Chamberlain brothers , found their majorities uncomfortably reduced , Neville 's to the very edge of defeat . |