Example sentences of "[noun] were to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His idea that the Jews were to the Syrians what the Brahmans were to the Indians gained favour ( F.Gr.H. 715 F.3 . |
| 2 | All eyes were to the front , and ears alerted to imminent commands . |
| 3 | That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor . |
| 4 | Despite its primitive agricultural methods , the peasantry was far from monolithic : above the significant numbers of outright slaves , beggars , and migrant workers , were the peasants on private and church lands suffering various degrees of bondage , military colonists on the frontiers , and peasants on the ‘ black ’ lands whose only obligations were to the State . |
| 5 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |
| 6 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |
| 7 | ( c ) La Conspiration , written in 1937 and 1938 , was produced at a moment of co-operative cultural politics when the consequences of the Popular Front experiences in both France and Spain were to the fore . |
| 8 | Stations were to the British what the motte and bailey and great stone keeps were to the Normans . |
| 9 | The toilets and urinals were to the left of this section — the urinals being roofless and thus open to the elements . |
| 10 | Now these and similar comments would require careful scrutiny if the thrust of the argument were to the effect that Parliament could not have intended to establish an inquisitorial régime of this kind in relation to serious or complex fraud alone . |
| 11 | The main labs were to the left , the voices louder now . |
| 12 | Among the non Jewish organisations responsible for hostels , the Christadelphians were to the fore . |
| 13 | After a few questions and answers swap roles , and then discuss how convincing the Christian 's answers were to the non-Christian . |
| 14 | This time local mothers were to the fore . |
| 15 | Though consequently treated with some suspicion by the Marian regime , there is no evidence that he had strong Protestant convictions : his loyalties were to the City and other members of its élite . |
| 16 | As H. M. Colvin has observed ‘ what Reims and St Denis were to the house of Capet , Westminster should be to the house of Plantagenet ’ . |
| 17 | Thus , 38% of Asahi Bank 's net new loans in the year to March were to the property sector . |
| 18 | His artistic debts were to the French Romantics and also Goya , Wiertz and Hogarth . |
| 19 | They are to South African rugby what Cambridge University were to the English game in the mid-Seventies and , indeed , Llanelli were to Wales in the early Seventies . |
| 20 | His idea that the Jews were to the Syrians what the Brahmans were to the Indians gained favour ( F.Gr.H. 715 F.3 . |
| 21 | His hands were to the buttons of her dress . |
| 22 | your Lordship 's findings were to the age of nineteen a total of nine , three , six , five , O. From the age of nineteen , six , five , two , two , one , O and from the sum of those two figures |
| 23 | most injuries were to the head or the chest , so Alan 's were unusual . |
| 24 | As often as not , the injuries were to the right side of the body , as this was the side most usually exposed to the explosion . |
| 25 | As Building News declared in 1875 : ‘ Railway termini and hotels are to the nineteenth century what monasteries and cathedrals were to the thirteenth century . |