Example sentences of "was a [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At McDiarmid Park on Saturday , the 22 year old made light of his excellent midweek showing for Scotland and played some football which was a delight to the eye . |
| 2 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 3 | Unusually for the Daily News there was a tailpiece to the article , set in darker type , with Toby 's name attached . |
| 4 | The essence of the proposal was a request to the ILEA for funds to second one of the school 's teaching staff for a period of seven terms , and for support in obtaining an outside consultant , secretarial assistance , and advice from various agencies including the ILEA 's Research and Statistics personnel and university researchers . |
| 5 | This was a climax to the expedition for the participants . |
| 6 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , 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 five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 7 | The tour was a shock to the system , particularly Gordon 's : back home afterwards , his doctor told him he had a damaged liver . |
| 8 | ‘ And besides it was a shock to the system — I really believed you capable of all those awful ideas ! ’ |
| 9 | It was a duel to the finish in the Fairford Duathlon this weekend . |
| 10 | Our total vote actually went down and in areas hit by high unemployment , like my own constituency in the West Midlands , there was a swing to the Alliance of David Steel and David Owen . |
| 11 | The fatal injury was a blow to the head , not a very heavy blow but the deceased had taken a substantial amount of alcohol in the hours before he suffered the injury , and the effect of alcohol is to increase the flow of blood to the brain so that , et cetera , et cetera , et cetera . |
| 12 | Some say 1972 was a fight to the death , which left Jacklin as the slain gladiator . |
| 13 | It was a fight to the death ; a fight for power , couched in stark terms of " winner takes all " . |
| 14 | There was a feel to the world unlike anything he had come across back in England . |
| 15 | That white overall was a passport to the scene of the murder . |
| 16 | He roundly condemned the Carrington Plan and stressed that a full and unconditional end to ‘ foreign interference and aggression ’ against Afghanistan was a precondition to the withdrawal of Soviet troops . |
| 17 | She said it was a year to the day since her son died . |
| 18 | As they were paid on a piece-work basis , this meant that there was a ceiling to the amount of output any one person would do . |
| 19 | But the prejudice against money-lending was a bar to the development of credit and of the money economy in general ; and it was singularly fortunate for the Europe of the eleventh and twelfth centuries that there was a substantial group of active and intelligent people who had overcome the prohibition of usury . |
| 20 | In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect . |
| 21 | Instead of bilateral employer-union agreements there developed belatedly a protective labour law which , by the very functions it fulfilled , was a hindrance to the emergence of collective bargaining ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | This was a reference to the principle of reciprocity embodied in the Yalta Repatriation agreements which will be discussed in Chapter Five . |
| 23 | This was a reference to the document , the subject of these proceedings , the status of which was , on 26 August 1988 , still undecided . |
| 24 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 25 | Not squalls yet , but armed with sufficient force to drift Golden Girl to the length of her anchor warp , and there was a change to the sound of the swell on the reef , a growing harshness . |
| 26 | There was a scramble to the table now , and when she was handed the glass , she put one hand behind Agnes 's head and raised it , then put the glass to her lips and commanded , ‘ Get that down you . |
| 27 | Er , so there was a cost to the County Council , but I 'm assuming that members would support stepping in , in these circumstances . |
| 28 | McPherson and Willms assert that ‘ comprehensive reorganisation was a precon-dition to the translation into educational gains of the potential for educational improvement of other changes , economic , social and educational , that have occurred since the mid 1960s ’ . |
| 29 | By his romantic rise to fame and fortune and his great philanthropy to those who cared for his mother , James Macrae was a credit to the land of his birth . |
| 30 | Ever constructive and logical , Wynne-Jones influenced events , and was a credit to the concept of the Life Peer I miss them all . |