Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 2 | Catholicism is unlikely to have been the key to Clovis 's success . |
| 3 | Dr George Kingsley seems to have been the key to Mary 's character — he was an inveterate traveller and his rare moments at home displayed tyrannical dominance and vanity , traits inherited by his daughter who both admired and resented him . |
| 4 | The changes that count are the ones to EC institutions and the ground rules that they play by . |
| 5 | What are the alternatives to UDC style ‘ regeneration ’ from the perspective of the political left ? |
| 6 | What are the alternatives to Gore-Tex and Sympatex membrane waterproofs , now hitting the lofty £200 mark ? |
| 7 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 8 | So this boy is looking at the irises and I 'm doing the VAT on a multiple despatch but I 'm also looking out of the corner of my eye and thinking , ‘ You 're a Monday to Friday . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And there has been no approach to Wigan over Lucas — yet ! ’ |
| 10 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 11 | There had been a trip to Yorkshire in April and another to the British Aquarist Festival in November , both of which had been enjoyed by all . |
| 12 | Indeed the whole house would have been a paradise to Mrs Mantini . |
| 13 | It had been a surprise to Loxford for ten years , previously accustomed , as rural communities are , to modesty and neatness in the pastoral dwelling-house . |
| 14 | That departure to university of a man far less intelligent than himself had been a blow to Stephen . |
| 15 | Mrs Doran 's husband had been a loser to Phipps , both at golf and in the bedroom . |
| 16 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been a shock to Miss Garland , coming so soon after her father 's death . ’ |
| 18 | It was obvious that the sight of him had been a shock to Tamar 's brother , but Davis was convinced that he had never encountered George before . |
| 19 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |
| 20 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 21 | It had been a gift to Tsar Nicholas from Queen Victoria . |
| 22 | He 'd married the widow and been a father to Rakovsky 's children . |
| 23 | Her only brush with the topic so far had been a visit to Mortimer 's Hole at Nottingham Castle . |
| 24 | The bird had been a monster to Lee . |
| 25 | If other cities are a guide to Milan then it also served as a useful quarry for the inhabitants . |
| 26 | There are no boundaries to Dalglish 's spending power . |
| 27 | ACT include two players in their squad who are no strangers to Scotland — centre Jim Swan who has returned after playing in the junior teams at Gala , and flanker Mark McInnes , who toured with the Wallabies to Canada and France in 1989 and spent some time with Peebles . |
| 28 | They are no strangers to Edinburgh and there was a good audience on Friday evening at Greyfriars Kirk to support their concert in aid of St Columba 's Hospice . |
| 29 | Clérisseau 's knowledge of the Roman baths , which he had studied with Adam , would have been an asset to Cameron , though it is not known what share Clérisseau had in the preparation of Cameron 's book , The Baths of the Romans , which , after various delays , was published in London in 1772 . |
| 30 | MISTY-EYED and shaky , the Hubble space telescope has been an embarrassment to NASA since its launch last April . |