Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 2 | Sebastian was there in allegiance to his upbringing , too . |
| 3 | However , the coup was also in response to what leading factions within the army perceived as attempts by Chatichai to undermine their influence . |
| 4 | By the beginning of the new century some of this new ideology , with its taboos on unmanly vices was certainly for export to the working class and we see the emergence of mass youth movements such as the Scouts , and the transference to the grammar schools of many of the key characteristics of the old public schools . |
| 5 | The move was explicitly in response to the " disintegration of Yugoslavia , caused by the secession of Slovenia and Croatia " and in accordance with " the principle that all Serbs should live in one state " . |
| 6 | The reduction in borrowings , however , meant that interest charges were down from £240,000 to £86,000 , and that the group was well on course to becoming cash positive by the end of the current year . |
| 7 | She would play along , another intimacy in their relationship was always of value to her — one of the opportunities her looks alone would never yield to her . |
| 8 | but equally we now know until the Daily Telegraph published its article on the ninth of January nineteen eighty eight , some of these brochures with this representation or claim was still in circulation to the general public you know that ? |
| 9 | It was argued that the strength of these pressures was roughly in proportion to the centrality of the speaker 's position in the closeknit group . |
| 10 | The island was also of interest to geologists , botanists , zoologists and other scientists . |
| 11 | Finally at 0015 the casualty was safely under tow to Lowestoft with the master and engineer aboard and the lifeboat was able to retrieve her hard-working crew and return to station . |
| 12 | I have been told that this decision was partly in response to lobbying by feminist groups . |