Example sentences of "was to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first one was to the house in Colchester to ask if they 'd mind if I delayed my arrival by one more day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He got out of here , though it was to the colours . |
| 4 | In these pleasant surroundings , we ‘ bagged ’ several of the main peaks , but the most interesting and spectacular walk was to the summit of a mountain called Koh , in the far north of the range . |
| 5 | The most serious damage was to the Bank of China 's amour-propre . |
| 6 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |
| 7 | The second plea was to the regime for ‘ clear and convincing steps ’ towards putting the country on a just , democratic and socialist course . |
| 8 | The majority cited was not in fact the Belorussian Communists , since Russians predominated : the reference was to the Belorussian ethnic majority in the republic 's population . |
| 9 | Dancing was to the Johnny Howard Orchestra and to Tony Charles and his Trinidad Steel Band . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Portugal Place was to the supply of horse shit what Wimbledon ‘ insiders ’ are to Centre Court tickets on final days . |
| 12 | India , little of the capital flows took the form of a rundown of sterling balances ; ( 2 ) most of the investment flow was to the ‘ white Commonwealth ’ , especially South Africa ; and ( 3 ) the colonies saw net disinvestment . |
| 13 | In the first two years of this period President Milton Obote 's party , the United People 's Congress ( UPC ) formed a coalition with the Kabaka Yekka ( KY ) Party whose support was entirely drawn from the Buganda people , and whose ultimate loyalty was to the kabaka who was also appointed President of Uganda . |
| 14 | Eventually I reach the road and follow it to its top , surprised by how close I was to the summit of the pass . |
| 15 | The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed . |
| 16 | He knows all the villagers personally , and is as indispensable to me as he was to the previous twenty-seven Humanitarian Officers . |
| 17 | Still , some feminists believe that the article , just by raising the question , could be as devastating to feminists as Time 's infamous 1969 ‘ Is God Dead ? ’ cover story was to the clergy . |
| 18 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 19 | They were to the 1980s what F Scott Fitzgerald was to the roaring twenties . |
| 20 | Before her brief exposure to pop stardom , she served an apprenticeship to a still-life photographer , and it was to the camera that she eventually returned , specialising in record covers and rock portraits . |
| 21 | But the commitment of governments was to the gold standard and free trade and , in 1922 , Baldwin reflected that , ‘ a free trade country , such as we are still , finds it very difficult to argue with a country that has a tariff weapon in its hand . ’ |
| 22 | God 's call was to the Jew first . |
| 23 | The pulpit was to the side . |
| 24 | While there was a chancel and a holy table the chancel was not long and the table was not put against the east wall ; the pulpit was to the side , an unusual feature in Baptist Gothic buildings . |
| 25 | At the beginning of his latest resurrection , he was still insisting on wooden rackets , which , flattering though it was to the Cambridge stockists who were able to supply him , made Borg look a little like something out of an Ealing Comedy . |
| 26 | Its scientists were evacuated to Scotland on the outbreak of war , but German intelligence knew precisely how important Bawdsey still was to the defence of Britain . |
| 27 | At first his political allegiance , with several other de-recognised Maharajas and Nawabs , was to the ultra-Right Swantantra or Freedom Party . |
| 28 | Such farmers were very conscious of the impediment that their lack of knowledge and skills was to the future development of the farm . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A favourite outing was to the nearby medieval castle of Pierrefonds , which the Emperor had given his wife as a present and which was being restored by the architect Viollet-le-Duc . |