Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the country got instead was the return to normality with all its faults ; and a general election . |
| 2 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 3 | The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police . |
| 4 | But , while that event was the climax to date of Richard 's career with the Palace , he has been with us since his schoolboy days , for he is one of the products of the currently highly resourceful youth development programme at Selhurst Park , and his mature performances in defence earned Richard the Palace Young Player of the Year award in 1986 . |
| 5 | But Tommaso Talvi was the type to jaw about whatever new scheme had taken his fancy and then jeopardise everybody around with his big boasting empty talk . |
| 6 | It became clear that the quality of the programme was the key to degree of success . |
| 7 | Mr. J.T. Stanley had been Head of Art since 1949 , and as Form Master of 1A for most of those thirty years , was the introduction to School for almost half the annual intake . |
| 8 | What generalized the appeal of Paisley 's critique of the unionist élites was the accession to power of Terence O'Neill . |
| 9 | First , there was the accession to power in Britain of the Labour Party , some of whom were sympathetic to the idea of ‘ sensible reform ’ ( Bew et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | The occasion for its appointment was the coming to office as Minister of Housing and Local Government of Mr Henry Brooke in January 1957 . |
| 11 | And it was a fight for the f towards the end of the week it was a fight to sort of say , Well , Sha n't be able to move it , use it until t the man comes . |
| 12 | It was a passport to success with girls in a time when discos were unknown and most couples did their courting on the back row of the pictures on Saturday night . |
| 13 | Though in a different way , what we have seen to be true of Gide was also true of Wilde : ‘ running foul of the law in his sexual life was a stimulus to thought on every subject … . |
| 14 | Its approval by parliament was a precondition to assistance from the IMF , which Bulgaria had joined in September [ see p. 37730 ] . |
| 15 | Knowing that John was alive , that fact was a spur to action of some kind . |
| 16 | There was a tendency to radicalism in the labour movement . |
| 17 | The situation in the Azerbaijan capital , Baku , remained generally quiet , however , and there was a return to work at the majority of enterprises closed since January 's general strike . |
| 18 | What was a contribution to harmony in one context could become a support for disharmony in another set of circumstances . |
| 19 | The Labour Government 's pamphlet Britain 's New Deal in Europe , issued before the 1975 referendum , stated unequivocally that ‘ there was a threat to employment in Britain from the movement in the Common Market towards an Economic and Monetary Union . |
| 20 | She was a newcomer to Parliament at the last election . |
| 21 | Here , suddenly , was a car to lust after , but also a car to strike fear into the hearts of rival companies in an industry that has struggled more than most in 1992 . |
| 22 | Similarly , although libraries were established in temples and palaces in order to conserve records of the past , there is no evidence of any interest in history , except in so far as it was a guide to action in the present . |
| 23 | There were no trades unions in those days , and there was no recourse to justice in any form . |
| 24 | There was no alternative to capitalism as a method of economic development , and at this period this implied both the realisation of the economic and institutional programme of the liberal bourgeoisie ( with local variations ) , and the crucial position in the state of that bourgeoisie itself . |
| 25 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
| 26 | Bunyan replied that he could find no justification for the Prayer Book in the Scriptures and that its use was an impediment to man in making known his condition to God . |
| 27 | Atlanta DA , Lewis Slaton , said that this was an alternative to prosecution for young , non-violent first-time offenders . |