Example sentences of "[is] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the opposition to the ERA came from adherents to fundamentalist religious movements which take literally Biblical statements such as St Paul 's to the Ephesians — ‘ Wives , be subject to your husband as to the Lord ’ and ‘ As the church is subject to Christ , so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands ’ . |
| 2 | They had both lost their fathers in the same year , Preston 's having fallen victim to leukaemia , William 's to the charms of Another Woman , and this had left William 's grandad as the only adult male presence in both households . |
| 3 | Although the two men rode together to Granada , Rodrigo made the mistake of pitching his tents closer than Alfonso 's to the walls of the city . |
| 4 | A very popular day excursion is to the Isles of Scilly , either by helicopter or ferry . |
| 5 | So it is to the consequences of structural change for the economics of global competition and the adjustments of firms ' strategies that we now turn . |
| 6 | It is to the reptiles themselves one must turn to find the greatest display of armoured scales that are all-enveloping , protecting their wearers over the whole surface of the body . |
| 7 | So , it is to the critics themselves we turn next . |
| 8 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 9 | The policies of international aid , which defy rational justification on either economic or strategic grounds , are at once intelligible when viewed as a collective purgation of the fear of envy , to which the ‘ affluent society ’ — itself an envy-guilt coinage — is especially prone and which is more vivid to the donors than the imagined envy is to the recipients . |
| 10 | If this right to emit sparks is worth more to the railway than stopping the sparks is to the farmers ( because suppressing sparks is costly , say ) , then the railway will buy the right to emit sparks from the farmers , and the damage will continue . |
| 11 | It is to the processes of this second reformation that Hilton now turns in chapter seventeen onwards , likening them to the gradual progress in recovery of full health after the medicine that effects the basic cure of the disease ( spiritually speaking , penance ) . |
| 12 | Its appraisal must be made by reference to the market position and the economic and financial power of the parties ; to alternatives available to suppliers and users ; to access to suppliers or markets ; to the structure of the markets affected , to take account of international competition ; to consider legal and factual barriers to entry ; and the interests of consumers and the development of technical and economic progress ( provided that the latter is to the consumers ' advantage and does not form an obstacle to competition ) . |
| 13 | It is to the details of transport developments before 1815 that we must now turn . |
| 14 | The Escalade and the Grande Rentree are respectively for the Calvinists of Geneva and the Waldenses of Torre Pellice what the reconsecration of the Temple is to the Jews ; and they offer the same problems not only of separating facts from legends , but of grasping the meaning of the facts . |
| 15 | If you have doubts about the quality of a witness work out how important their evidence is to the issues in the case . |
| 16 | The principal excursion is to the churches and ruins of Old Goa , which in the sixteenth century had a population more than twice the size of London . |
| 17 | Nevertheless Chilperic I complained that his treasury was always empty because of the church , while one retainer of a Merovingian prince attributed this penury to St Martial and St Martin , that is to the churches of Limoges and Tours . |
| 18 | It is to the police that crimes are reported . |
| 19 | But stores like VG say their first duty is to the shoppers and they 'll make sure they keep the campaign in the headlines until they can sell the story themselves . |
| 20 | Indeed the detailed , cautious , inconclusive report of the commission is probably now of more interest to outsiders like me than it is to the Kenyans . |
| 21 | Although it is to Christianity that we owe our modern temporal orientation , it is to the Romans that we are mainly indebted for the form of our calendar and conventions of time recording . |
| 22 | But it is to the peoples of Africa that the news gave the greatest happiness . |