Example sentences of "is a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | This is a drive to loiter over , a spot or series of spots to invest a fine day in . |
| 4 | It says that health and social policies should accept that responsible drinking in pubs is a benefit to society . |
| 5 | A benefit to them is a benefit to society , and a body of students personally ‘ enriched ’ by their education is an ‘ enriched ’ society . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Finally , do n't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success . |
| 8 | To have received your training at one of these agencies is a passport to success and now many other agencies are creating planning departments . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There is a cross-reference to Rule 13 ( subjective conditions ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 1989 ; ‘ Mayhem Part 6 ’ by Abigail Child , is a homage to film noir , soap opera thrillers and Mexican comic books generating the action . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 20 | Maw 's work encompasses so much that attempting to describe it is a hindrance to understanding and enjoyment . |
| 21 | Perhaps this is a response to desiccation . |
| 22 | If there is a defence to liability for the amount determined , the party seeking the bankruptcy or winding-up order may be ordered to pay the costs of the insolvency proceedings . |
| 23 | Consent is a defence to battery . |
| 24 | Any prolonged interruption to this process is a threat to survival — brain cells become damaged after two to three minutes without oxygen . |
| 25 | Section ten of the Fire Precautions Act gives me the power to inspect any premises where we believe there is a threat to life , other than domestic premises . |
| 26 | The ‘ happy family ’ view starts from a belief in ‘ social order ’ or ‘ industrial peace ’ : conflict is a threat to stability , and must be avoided or eradicated . |
| 27 | When a child is a listener to adult conversation ( which we may call ‘ dialogue at first hand ’ ) the identity of the speakers is normally obvious . |
| 28 | Two thousand years after these words were spoken , there is a tendency to water down their meaning . |
| 29 | There is a tendency to refocus identification on the ‘ personality ’ of the star — and indeed Benjamin recognizes the appearance of ‘ false aura ’ . |
| 30 | She also postulates that there is a tendency to group ethnic minority children in studies of ‘ problem ’ topics , such as emotional disturbance , educational retardation , runaway girls and one-parent families . |