Example sentences of "[is] a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll mean cleaner air and fewer road accidents , and although farmers do n't like the new law , the green lobby says it 's a chance to practice organic farming on a wide scale . |
| 2 | It 's a blow to University students who 've had to cancel performances they 've worked hard to produce . |
| 3 | No it is n't because it 's a day to day activity . |
| 4 | Er the reference to surface water presumably that 's a reference to flooding and the the need to avoid areas at risk from flooding . |
| 5 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 6 | It 's a back to front way of running an acting career . |
| 7 | Oh that one look 's a bit to bit to tight does n't it ? |
| 8 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 9 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 10 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 11 | She says that it is vital that the work is carried out as soon as possible — there 's a danger to groundwater and the environment . |
| 12 | It 's a sin to back nags says Pope |
| 13 | The inclusion of the toy theatre is a reference to childhood memory , but it is one which lacks the comfort of Boyce 's flowered lap . |
| 14 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 15 | This is a drive to loiter over , a spot or series of spots to invest a fine day in . |
| 16 | It says that health and social policies should accept that responsible drinking in pubs is a benefit to society . |
| 17 | A benefit to them is a benefit to society , and a body of students personally ‘ enriched ’ by their education is an ‘ enriched ’ society . |
| 18 | View this as a system for setting up three-dimensional banks of text and graphics , between which the ‘ reader ’ can jump at will by pressing a special key when a highlight on screen shows there is a link to material on another layer . |
| 19 | Finally , do n't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success . |
| 20 | To have received your training at one of these agencies is a passport to success and now many other agencies are creating planning departments . |
| 21 | That it is proceeding at all , despite the intense financial and media scepticism that followed last summer 's initial announcement , is a tribute to Sir Denys Henderson and his team . |
| 22 | This is a tribute to Labour 's smooth campaigning , in which the unacceptable faces of socialism have been either wreathed in benevolence or kept off the screen altogether . |
| 23 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 24 | Since being autonomous includes both freedom of choice and the capacity to reason about those choices , the impairment of either is a bar to autonomy . |
| 25 | There is a cross-reference to Rule 13 ( subjective conditions ) . |
| 26 | It is because a low tax regime is a stimulus to effort , a way of ensuring that the British economy works effectively and that people are put back to work . |
| 27 | What you really want then is a way to sort of happenings or embarrassments because you 're a bit stuck of where you want to go . |
| 28 | The idea of a payment for public exhibition was first developed in Sweden during the late 1960s and is based on the idea that the exhibition of paintings and other works of art is a service to society and , accordingly , the artist should receive some form of exhibition payment . |
| 29 | 1989 ; ‘ Mayhem Part 6 ’ by Abigail Child , is a homage to film noir , soap opera thrillers and Mexican comic books generating the action . |
| 30 | The Kirk Hammett model ( let's just call it the KH ) is a medium to heavyweight guitar with an alder body , a good straight-grained maple neck and a rosewood fingerboard , all topped off with a reverse headstock , two humbuckers , and the obligatory Floyd Rose with locking nut . |