Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's rates proposals are to fairness what Henry VIII was to marital stability and what Basil Fawlty is to the art of hospital and hotel management . |
| 2 | There will be some water and debris in the bottom of the hot water tank — so make sure that buckets and cloths are to hand to catch the mess . |
| 3 | The doctors may broadcast their scripts to a drug-hungry nation like showers of autumn leaves , but they still act as an intolerable bottle-neck between manufacturers and their clients , the latter , poor sods , often not even knowing what wondrous remedies are to hand for the asking . |
| 4 | The situation in Oxbridge and London is clearly less serious , since there the copyright libraries are to hand . |
| 5 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 6 | ‘ Christenings and weddings and funerals are to life what breakfast and lunch and dinner are to the day , ’ said Lydia . |
| 7 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 8 | Aerospace chiefs are to stage ceremonies despite the government dropping its official support . |
| 9 | Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts : we supply the essential raw material for the market . |
| 10 | Lordly men are to earth o'ergiven |
| 11 | He or she must provide the Panel with all the available information , making sure the social background and other reports are to hand . |
| 12 | Once these papers are to hand there can be a proper consideration of whether or not there are good grounds for extending legal aid to cover the arguing of an appeal . |
| 13 | The starter kit , the cheapest way of buying the car , requires about 100 hours of work by the buyer , once all the parts are to hand . |
| 14 | MPs are to table Commons questions about reports that Ulster security forces allowed a top IRA volunteer to carry on terrorist activities while acting as a police informer . |