Example sentences of "there as a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society was there as a backdrop to drama , melodrama if you like , and that drama could only be presented in terms of individual destinies which had to be resolved satisfactorily in the film itself . |
| 2 | On several occasions , according to Werner 's informants , groups of Toraja resistance fighters had been taken into the forest by the Japanese , machine-gunned , and left there as a warning to others . |
| 3 | The yellow and black police barrier was still there as a warning to other drivers coming over the crest of the hill . |
| 4 | As we have seen , this approach became less dominant in the second half of the 1980s , although it is still there as a card to be played should political problems necessitate it . |
| 5 | It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle . |