Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a back to front way of running an acting career . |
| 2 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 3 | He put it away , a bit of hesitation there in the Oxford United defence , and it 's a goal to Spurs scored by Gary Mafford , in fact he 's put the ball in the net ; mistake from Andy Melville gave Spurs a corner , the ball was n't cleared , Gascoigne played a one two , was blocked by United , it came out to Mafford in the end and the goal 's in so Spurs take the lead after eight minutes . |
| 4 | The other thing is it 's a question to Councillor Poole I mean why should the people of Nottingham give any credibility to anything said by someone who is quoted in the Daily Sport of all newspapers as saying and I quote , Surely the County Council could erect something more in keeping with the City 's heritage like a little old lady in a shawl . |
| 5 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 6 | It 's a blow to University students who 've had to cancel performances they 've worked hard to produce . |
| 7 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 8 | No it is n't because it 's a day to day activity . |
| 9 | It 'll mean cleaner air and fewer road accidents , and although farmers do n't like the new law , the green lobby says it 's a chance to practice organic farming on a wide scale . |
| 10 | It 's a gift to people in this business , I 'll tell you . |
| 11 | It 's a sin to back nags says Pope |
| 12 | It is a £4bn to £5bn injection that should help . |
| 13 | It is a tribute to Masur and the players that a live performance — apparently taken from one concert and not edited from other sources , unless it was a previous rehearsal — should achieve a precision of ensemble to rival that of a studio performance . |
| 14 | Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 . |
| 15 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |
| 16 | It is a companion to SayIt which builds voice-activated macros . |
| 17 | Maw 's work encompasses so much that attempting to describe it is a hindrance to understanding and enjoyment . |
| 18 | It is a help to members of the media if they know the responsibility of the contact ( eg organiser , development officer , secretary etc ) . |
| 19 | But it is a blow to self-esteem and status that no amount of respect for the processes of democracy can remove . |
| 20 | It 's played upfield and headed away by but into Shrewsbury 's possession nearside , good ball , forward down the right flank and it 's knocked back by , is the second chance , now level with the edge of the penalty area , 's available once more , is tackled and the ball is out of play despite 's rather erm annoyed look , it is a throw-in to Shrewsbury Town and of course gets booed , but then he gets booed everywhere . |
| 21 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 22 | It is a compliment to Mr Nayanar that the central government wants to copy Kerala 's methods of using volunteer teachers by the thousand . |
| 23 | It is a testimony to Stellar 's insight that , even now , no discussion of the neural bases of motivation is complete without a discussion of the hypothalamus . |
| 24 | It is a commitment to friendship , the most intimate friendship . |
| 25 | It is a report to parents and I mean , under legislation we have to report |
| 26 | It is a means to achievement . |
| 27 | Also , it is not a regulation involving bans and prohibitions , it is a recommendation to member states to implement the aims and principles in a way appropriate to their national circumstances . |
| 28 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 29 | It is a testament to Butler 's skill that he served as Private Secretary to both Edward Heath and Harold Wilson and , even more impressively , stayed the course as Principal Private Secretary under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 30 | Rather than take it down , perhaps future generations of Kievans will blur the fact of what it stood for , with some typically romantic yarn — that it is a monument to rainbows , for example , or the antennae of a UFO-detecting device . |