Example sentences of "is to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it is to the critics themselves we turn next . |
| 2 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 3 | The Church is to the spirit as the inn is to the flesh , and , if good and well designed , they baulk the devil himself . ’ |
| 4 | The Church is to the spirit as the inn is to the flesh , and , if good and well designed , they baulk the devil himself . ’ |
| 5 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 6 | This is to the benefit of both parties . |
| 7 | The Journal 's final lament is to the grilled cheese sandwich or the croque monsieur . |
| 8 | A bicycle is to the medieval streets of Nepal what a convertible is to a California freeway : appropriate technology . |
| 9 | The addiction is to the ‘ rush ’ — an experience of great pleasure which lasts a relatively short time . |
| 10 | Our primary duty is to the travelling public . |
| 11 | Parade marshal Harry Foster is to the right of the unit . |
| 12 | The policies of international aid , which defy rational justification on either economic or strategic grounds , are at once intelligible when viewed as a collective purgation of the fear of envy , to which the ‘ affluent society ’ — itself an envy-guilt coinage — is especially prone and which is more vivid to the donors than the imagined envy is to the recipients . |
| 13 | It is to the latter process that I now turn . |
| 14 | It can accurately tell him where he is to the nearest ten metres or so . |
| 15 | My first visit is to the Red Cross , to pick up medicines requested on the previous patrol and then on to visit the Franciscan nuns , who run a school in Nicosia . |
| 16 | Its main commitment is to the north , and thus every winter the battalion trains in Norway in Arctic Warfare . |
| 17 | But it is to the peoples of Africa that the news gave the greatest happiness . |
| 18 | If this right to emit sparks is worth more to the railway than stopping the sparks is to the farmers ( because suppressing sparks is costly , say ) , then the railway will buy the right to emit sparks from the farmers , and the damage will continue . |
| 19 | And last , the closer the target bank is to the acquirer , the better the chance of value creation , because expense control is more easily managed . |
| 20 | For him , thinking is to the soul as motion , not extension , is to the body . |
| 21 | For him , thinking is to the soul as motion , not extension , is to the body . |
| 22 | It has allowed itself to be outsmarted by governments who are not afraid to bend the rules in their favour , aided and abetted by American multi-nationals whose allegiance is to the United States , naturally . |
| 23 | One might well ask how important the element of criminal damage is to the rationale of the aggravated offence . |
| 24 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 25 | There is not a suggestion that one of these missiles were returned ; there is not one suggestion which can be made by anybody , no matter how evilly disposed he is to the organizer of the procession or to the purpose of the procession , that any violence was offered by a member of that procession . |
| 26 | What the straight line is to the curve the warm tone is to the cold in the domain of colour . |
| 27 | What the straight line is to the curve the warm tone is to the cold in the domain of colour . |
| 28 | It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn . |
| 29 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
| 30 | Fourth Estate , £14.99 THE first fascination of studying history comes from seeing how similar the past is to the present : politics has always been politics , religion has always been religion , and so on . |