Example sentences of "was [noun] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 2 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 3 | Lexandro 's father was Calculator Maximus to Lord Spinoza , whose clan owned lower hab factories that built Mammoth class land-trains to traverse the ash wastes on great cleated tracks , stoutly armoured to resist assault by nomads . |
| 4 | He first saw active service under Frederick Augustus , Duke of York [ q.v. ] , in Flanders in 1794 , and in 1798 was brigade major to Major-General ( Sir ) George Nugent [ q.v. ] during the 1798 Irish rebellion . |
| 5 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 6 | By February 1764 Bach was music master to Queen Charlotte . |
| 7 | He was imported into Sweden in 1921 and was litter brother to winner Arco Torfwerk . |
| 8 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 9 | Mr. Gordon was estate agent to Sir George Phillips , the owner of Longreen Manor . |