Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morality without religion is unthinkable for religion is to morality as water is to seeds in the soil . |
| 2 | The best remedy is to counter-attack . |
| 3 | That policy is to simplicity what the Leader of the Opposition is to brevity . |
| 4 | Clearly the nearer an instrument is to maturity , the less significant is the risk of capital loss ( or gain ) should interest rates rise ( or fall ) . |
| 5 | This is left to the articles , where the almost universal practice is to vest in the board all the powers necessary for the management of the business , bar those reserved by the Act to be exercised by the shareholders in general meeting . |
| 6 | Rather the intention is to flag some of the key areas where relevant work is being carried out . |
| 7 | But whatever form a parallelism takes , its effect is to foreground the relation between parallel words and phrases which fill the variable positions . |
| 8 | It is universally applicable and it ‘ is to violence , and therefore , to all tyranny , all injustice , what light is to darkness ’ . |
| 9 | The mystic 's understanding of this joy at the heart of experience is called visionary ; it is to ordinary human perception as waking is to sleeping ; and this carol , in its excited evocation of the significance of redemption in words and images , answers to this understanding . |
| 10 | There may be less conflict for those people whose underlying commitment in marriage is to parenting rather than partnering . |
| 11 | For a medium-sized power such as Britain , the best way to maximise our influence is to pool sovereignty by combining with others . |
| 12 | A more radical proposal is to phase out the allowances over a five-year period , again with the commitment to use the increased revenue coming to the Exchequer to cover cuts in the standard rate of tax and increases in child benefit . |
| 13 | All this indicates that a positive mental attitude is as important to good health as a negative or resigned attitude is to illness and disease . |
| 14 | ‘ Sarrasine , as a title also works in the semiotic code because in French the structure of the word is feminine — the semiotic reference is to femininity . |
| 15 | Even today the Chinaman is as attached to jade as the Indian is to gold . |
| 16 | All I 'm trying to do at the moment is to sort of get |
| 17 | But 8m voters were eligible to choose members of the national assembly , a parliamentary body whose main job is to rubber-stamp decisions handed down by the ten-man Revolutionary Command Council through which Mr Hussein governs . |
| 18 | The aim is to loan more of the local history objects out to the local community . |
| 19 | Such arrangements may also be adopted as a first tentative step towards full merger ; ( 2 ) where the aim is to pool resources with a view to lowering overhead costs and achieving administrative savings . |
| 20 | The aim is to free-up housing for the needy and boost revenue from the city 's 57,000 tenants . |
| 21 | As stressed before , the potential of the land is of prime importance ; if the aim is to farm successfully , all else must take second place . |
| 22 | , the other way , the other way of , in which you can get more close to live Amnesty is to affiliate as a school group or a youth group or a religious group erm , that 's nice to see you tonight . |
| 23 | Sometimes there is no use of quotation marks , in which case the transition from author 's to character 's voice has to be deduced purely from the wording . |
| 24 | The observer is ‘ blind ’ to target location of the target and makes a forced-choice whether the initial fixation shift is to right or left . |
| 25 | This great building is to Byzantine architecture what the Parthenon is to Greek . |
| 26 | This multi- media concept is to education what a demo program is to software . |
| 27 | However , this contains an important message for lawyers sympathetic to the peace movement , since if the symbolic appeal of law for the peace movement is founded in the view that law embodies certain political and human ideals which may be interpreted as being in sympathy with the aims of the peace movement , then it is clear that the attraction is to law as an ideal rather than to lawyers and legal process . |
| 28 | ‘ My service is to mankind . |
| 29 | Separatism is to feminism what fundamentalism is to Christianity . |
| 30 | So what I 'm gon na ask you to do in a minute is to line up in threes . |