Example sentences of "be an [noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will undoubtedly be an advantage to governing bodies to have more control over the resources of their schools and greater flexibility in the deployment and use of staff , premises and materials . |
| 2 | Christians and humanists are not alone in agreeing that doubt can be an antidote to inauthentic faith or to error and falsehood . |
| 3 | In areas where the inflation of housing prices has made it impossible for many local people to obtain their own homes , the sight of outsiders purchasing houses when they already have one elsewhere can be an affront to local dignity . |
| 4 | The Treasury hoped that they would be an answer to inappropriate volume targets , and to criticisms that PESC allowed the cash content of public expenditure to rise too fast ; often even faster than the general rate of inflation , since public sector inflation usually exceeded that in the private sector . |
| 5 | Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 6 | Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 7 | More detailed research is needed to determine the principal sources of infection in Britain , but health education may be an alternative to antenatal screening in reducing maternal infection . |
| 8 | Not only are time-cost recording systems useful in measuring ultimate job profitability , they can also be an aid to mid job evaluation ( see fig. p. 95 ) . |
| 9 | Finally , with respect to language issues , a variety of debates are still in progress and it is premature to draw firm conclusions ; however , there is some evidence to suggest that bilingualism may actually enhance educational performance ( Houlton , 1986 ) , that in the case of Afro-Caribbean pupils there may well be ‘ dialect interference ’ , although it is clear too that some of the problems here may derive from the negative attitudes of teachers towards Creole ( Edwards , 1979 ) , and that in the case of some Bangladeshi pupils lack of familiarity with English may be an obstacle to academic achievement ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |