Example sentences of "is a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's played upfield and headed away by but into Shrewsbury 's possession nearside , good ball , forward down the right flank and it 's knocked back by , is the second chance , now level with the edge of the penalty area , 's available once more , is tackled and the ball is out of play despite 's rather erm annoyed look , it is a throw-in to Shrewsbury Town and of course gets booed , but then he gets booed everywhere . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The historic past is a reference to Alexander Wilson , a Paisley weaver , poet and famous ornithologist , whose statue stands in the Abbey grounds . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |
| 6 | William Rubin has suggested that the Gilles-like figure in the watercolour studies is a reference to Douanier Rousseau , clad most characteristically in his beret , and that his presence is still evoked in the left-hand side of the still life through stylistic allusions to his work in terms of insistently if softly modelled forms , smoothly rendered in nuances of Douanier-like greens . |
| 7 | The reference to ‘ the Principles ’ is a reference to statements of principle issued by S.I.B . |
| 8 | The name is a reference to Mr Donovan 's evidence that he sometimes applied lemon juice to lighten his hair , although never bleach . |
| 9 | This is a drive to loiter over , a spot or series of spots to invest a fine day in . |
| 10 | anne Henderson says her prdicament is a warning to others in her situation … |
| 11 | After the Newcastle upon Tyne hearing , Tracey — who now refuses to work for men — said : ‘ I hope this is a warning to men harassing girls at work . ’ |
| 12 | It says that health and social policies should accept that responsible drinking in pubs is a benefit to society . |
| 13 | A benefit to them is a benefit to society , and a body of students personally ‘ enriched ’ by their education is an ‘ enriched ’ society . |
| 14 | ‘ I do believe that is a signpost to Cape Town , ’ I remarked , trying hard to prevent my voice from cracking . |
| 15 | That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Finally , do n't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success . |
| 18 | To have received your training at one of these agencies is a passport to success and now many other agencies are creating planning departments . |
| 19 | Mhoira was and is a symbol to WPCs throughout the country that the ladder can be scaled . |
| 20 | Of course , this is a tribute to Muriel Spark 's novel as much as to the film ; and this is a key to the moving image portrayal of Edinburgh and its surroundings — film-makers have come to Edinburgh to produce stories which are set here already , generally well-known stories from fact or fiction . |
| 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 | It is a tribute to Masur and the players that a live performance — apparently taken from one concert and not edited from other sources , unless it was a previous rehearsal — should achieve a precision of ensemble to rival that of a studio performance . |
| 23 | This on its own is a tribute to Colnaghi and its influence on American patronage and taste . |
| 24 | The story , the most technically brilliant of all the Ransome books , is a tribute to Ransome 's best-loved boat , a thirty-foot-long , seven-ton cutter built by Hillyards of Littlehampton in 1931 . |
| 25 | Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 . |
| 26 | The apparent fragility of the bridge 's construction is a tribute to Telford 's complete mastery of working with iron . |
| 27 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |
| 28 | The song is a tribute to people , how I 'm grateful to them all and I love them and I love everyone . |
| 29 | The whole series is a tribute to Shakespeare 's dramatic imagination , but it does not inspire affection . |
| 30 | Commissioned by the National Trust ‘ No Coward Soul is Mine ’ is a tribute to Emily , Anne and Charlotte Brontë . |