Example sentences of "was [art] [noun sg] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the home-town to the Lancashire Fusiliers who , because of muddles , bickering , ill-planning and ignorance , lost 13,642 men in the Great War — 1,816 of them in the scrub and shale of Gallipoli . |
| 2 | Well , here was the evidence to the contrary , ironically thanks to last week 's international commitments . |
| 3 | That was the warning to the conference from Peter West , health economist with Touche Ross management consultants . |
| 4 | One key development was the exception to the nemo dat rule . |
| 5 | Her ritual return to Møn was the response to an undertaking , her visits to the house and the sites a reassurance . |
| 6 | He also ordered that the file should be transferred to Kingston and that meanwhile the wife ( who was the respondent to the motion ) should be granted interim custody of the child . |
| 7 | Among the ministers ' first acts on the opening day of the conference was the admission to the CSCE ( announced and welcomed by Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin ) of the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , bringing total membership to 38 . |
| 8 | One significant , though at the time little noticed , change in voting was the swing to the Democrats in the big cities . |
| 9 | Here was the gateway to the seaside , to the country , to the wider world . |
| 10 | Indeed , long before the clusters of nineteenth-century hotels arose in Interlaken , Thun was the gateway to the Oberland for the earliest alpine travellers . |
| 11 | Small pleasure craft buzzed around the square-rigged giants of the sea as they left Liverpool in scenes reminiscent of the turn of the century when the port was the gateway to the Americas . |
| 12 | Rural districts showed more support for the Polish Peasant Party , which was the successor to a party formerly allied with the Communists , than for the post-Solidarity party , Peasant Accord . |
| 13 | Certainly Chester , which was the successor to the Diocese of Lichfield as the ecclesiastical authority for Stockport , offered great opportunities . |
| 14 | To some extent , the Boilerhouse succeeded in attracting new audiences to the V&A ; at the same time its five-year relationship with an important national museum attracted invaluable coverage and prestige for the privately funded Design Museum which was the successor to the Conran Boilerhouse . |
| 15 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 16 | Most important , however , was the modification to the Rome Treaty which committed the ‘ twelve ’ to completing the internal market by the end of 1992 . |
| 17 | This he refused to accept , and in consequence was given a Form 2 , which was the equivalent to a dismissal notice , if the client was found guilty . |
| 18 | Nigel secretly wished that there was the equivalent to a girlie mag for men who wanted to be turned off . |
| 19 | When the keeper had captured the monkey in the net he led the way to a small building which he informed them was the annexe to the quarantine block . |
| 20 | Yeah although in fact the roadworks were , were not slowing us down it was , it was the approach to the M three junction was , was really very bad but the erm the road the , the roadworks at Heathrow , we just sort of breezed through that . |
| 21 | This was the Preface to a selection of the poems , which Leavis was to handle roughly , as he felt that Eliot had no business to be praising Tennyson , any more than later he had any business to be endorsing Kipling . |
| 22 | Diagonally across from where she stood was the door to the back stairs . |
| 23 | Here , too , was the door to the cellar , that awful place dropping beneath the main staircase into the very bowels of the house . |
| 24 | On the right of the window was the door to the bedroom . |
| 25 | On the far side of the pond was the old ford and Mum used to tell us that this was the route to the city taken by carts before the building of the old Harnham Bridge in the fourteenth century , although I expect it was used right up to the advent of the motor car . |
| 26 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
| 27 | Bohanna 's husband , John , was the secretary to the Trust and its public spokesperson . |
| 28 | In most of these cases the wife was the secretary to the business . |
| 29 | ‘ Positive ’ science , operating on objective and ascertained facts , connected by rigid links of cause and effect , and producing uniform , invariant general ‘ laws ’ beyond query or wilful modification , was the master-key to the universe , and the nineteenth century possessed it . |
| 30 | The cause or matter in question was the application to the court to exercise its powers under the Allied Forces Act and the order , and to deliver the appellant to the Dutch military authorities . |