Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 2 | I must try to remember , Celia said to herself , that I am only a statistic to Dr Shalcross , possibly a case history she might wish to quote , anonymously , because I do n't happen to run true to form . |
| 3 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 4 | Modern methods of curtailing debate are largely a response to attempts by Irish Nationalists , seeking home rule in Victorian times , to abuse the rights of the opposition to oppose . |
| 5 | The shift of Amis 's mind , thoughtful and unphilosophical as it is , has been broadly a pattern to others of his age . |
| 6 | When Mr. Gosling picked the apples for me last month he left a few on the top branches he could n't reach , and they 're rather a temptation to boys , I expect . |
| 7 | Her mother said : ‘ Those former foster parents , who she 's been once a year to Spain with , they have been able to give her the luxuries that I could not afford to give her . ’ |
| 8 | At present doctors must prove at regular intervals that such patients are still a danger to society . |
| 9 | Portable operating systems , such as Unix , are also a threat to IBM and other companies which once prospered on proprietary ones , such as Wang and Data General . |
| 10 | The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms . |
| 11 | If I 'm just a footnote to Springsteen — that 's okay ! |
| 12 | The latter quality is expressed by the precision of the design with its almost hard , linear effects , which are quite a contrast to Ramsay 's later use of sfumato . |
| 13 | The pension was a voluntary gratuitous payment ant the words ’ except in the wool trade ’ were merely an intimation to Mr Wyatt that if he did enter the wool trade he must not expect them to continue the pension . |
| 14 | These were hardly a threat to Dyson 's rhetorical skills . |
| 15 | Almondsbury were always a problem to Banbury , both teams playing very good football and the mid-field were very dominant on both sides , therefore the amount of chances were n't that great . |
| 16 | They were also a response to demands for a form of participation . |
| 17 | The ‘ hystery of the eye ’ is presumably a reference to Bataille 's story ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ , a story of enucleation , which is , of course in Freudian terms equivalent to castration . |
| 18 | This is basically an attempt to group or to classify customers according to similar needs or purchasing characteristics . |
| 19 | ‘ It is merely a password to freedom ! ’ |
| 20 | This is only a bar to registration if the first mark is registered in respect of " the same goods or description of goods " . |
| 21 | A summer breeding visitor to most of eastern Europe , it is only a vagrant to Britain . |
| 22 | We are not convinced that the attraction of out-of-town shopping is entirely a response to consumer demand . |
| 23 | It is perhaps a tribute to Klemperer 's stature that all the recordings featured here continue to stimulate well after the CDs are returned to their place on my shelves . |
| 24 | The immediacy of the job is obviously an attraction to Simmons , born in Merton , south London , and a pupil at Dulwich college who never visualised a career with the AA . |
| 25 | 239 is thus a counterexample to assertion ( ii ) , Actually there is only one other positive integer which is not expressible as a sum of eight cubes . |
| 26 | It is thus a contribution to biography , not to criticism . |
| 27 | Prison is just a word to Robyn , a word in a book or a newspaper , a symbol of something — the law , hegemony , repression ( ‘ The prison motif in Little Dorrit is a metaphorical articulation of Dickens 's critique of Victorian culture and society ’ — Discuss ) . |
| 28 | In context this is just a reply to Pippin 's remark that the song ‘ does not sound altogether encouraging ’ . |
| 29 | Offset is usually a government to government agreement . |
| 30 | ‘ No , perhaps not , since it 's usually a response to things lost , or ended , and you still have Jones , ’ Luke conceded cynically . |