Example sentences of "[was/were] to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stations were to the British what the motte and bailey and great stone keeps were to the Normans . |
| 2 | How valuable this Romanian channel of military information was to the Pentagon may be doubted , but it is revealing of the extent of Ceauşescu 's duplicity . |
| 3 | This was a splendid late flowering of the ‘ Orientalist ’ style , and was to the British in India what the Spanish mission-station style was to the United States . |
| 4 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 5 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 6 | Britain 's highest profile space commitment was to the ESA L-SAT programme ( later called Olympus ) ; this was the high-power , high-science , satellite from which the French and Germans withdrew in order to prepare ( from 1979 ) to launch their own DBS satellite outside the ESA — for their TVSat and TDF-I efforts . |
| 7 | Even so esteemed a Church Father as Clement of Alexandria was actually , in many respects , closer to original Nazarean doctrine than he was to the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome . |
| 8 | The last trip on Tommy 's bus was to the Lake District . |
| 9 | It was to the Carlton as well as the Whip 's Office that Robert Sanders went to hear the news and discuss political events , and it was to the Carlton too that he went for recreation when the business of the House was too tedious to be borne any longer . |
| 10 | It was to the Carlton as well as the Whip 's Office that Robert Sanders went to hear the news and discuss political events , and it was to the Carlton too that he went for recreation when the business of the House was too tedious to be borne any longer . |
| 11 | In fact , cruel strategic reality , as well as Ceauşescu 's commitment to communism , meant that Romania could never become to the United States what Cuba was to the USSR . |
| 12 | He was as inflexible in his allegiance to Amun and the old gods as Surere was to the Aten , and during the reign of Akhenaten he had fled to the oasis of Kharga to escape death . |
| 13 | Dancing was to the Johnny Howard Orchestra and to Tony Charles and his Trinidad Steel Band . |
| 14 | At the beginning of his latest resurrection , he was still insisting on wooden rackets , which , flattering though it was to the Cambridge stockists who were able to supply him , made Borg look a little like something out of an Ealing Comedy . |
| 15 | In comparative terms the Courage income was not as crucial to the leading sides as it was to the Sudburys of the set-up . |
| 16 | That was to the Arsenal . |