Example sentences of "was [noun sg] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I said things I should not have done — it was over-reaction to the fact we lost two points we probably deserved , and to the manner they were lost . ’ |
| 2 | Woodville had seized £10,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 3 | Woodville had seized £1O,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 4 | ‘ That was damage to the churn . ’ |
| 5 | Duly a lease was issued to the satisfaction of the Lady of the Manor and partners John Taylor and William Richardson of Butterston in Staffordshire , who was clerk to the Grassington Mines . |
| 6 | In practice there was resistance to the levying of the first instalment and collection proved increasingly difficult . |
| 7 | It was enemy to the world , yet the world knew nothing of it ! |
| 8 | Although there was opposition to the Fiat-Alfa deal from some trade unionists who were concerned at the possible job losses caused by rationalisation after a merger , the Italian government was subjected to considerable political pressure of a nationalistic nature to support the Fiat bid — pressure similar to that which forced the British government to cancel the talks between Ford and Austin Rover — and eventually rejected the Ford overtures in favour of an ‘ all Italian solution ’ . |
| 9 | None of these companies was a natural monopoly and hence the concerns about competition , described above , did not apply , although there was opposition to the privatisation proposals from the Labour Party and the trade unions on grounds of principle . |
| 10 | There was opposition to the idea of a joint parliament , but , as a compromise , a consultative interparliamentary body was set up . |
| 11 | Hardly surprising , since one of the main components of that radicalism was opposition to the Vietnam war , and although nominally defeated at the party conference in 1967 , Wilson 's basically pro-US stand defined the party 's position in the eyes of many young radicals . |
| 12 | Another speaker replied that the existence of YTP was testament to the failure of the general education system . |
| 13 | After fifteen minutes the rudder was broken off and she was broadside to the weather . |
| 14 | He was second to the list of scholars . |
| 15 | All this and much else of a similar kind was orthodoxy to the Peripatetics . |
| 16 | He was intimate with the greatest practitioner of his day , Layton , who was not a veterinary surgeon , but was farrier to the King . |
| 17 | In Bristol , Augustine Birrell , MP for Bristol North , remembered that Henry Arnold Thomas , pastor of Highbury Congregational Chapel , which was home to the Wills family , was said to ‘ cut a greater figure on the Downs than the Bishop of the Diocese ’ . |
| 18 | And up on the hill , the castle was home to the pigeons , who would retire there to roost after a busy day 's scavenging in the town centre . |
| 19 | PODINGTON AIRFIELD , just over the Northamptonshire border near the Hinwick to Wymington road , was home to the USAAF 92nd Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) of the 8th Air Force . |
| 20 | Gloucester 's first match was home to the Wasps.It finished as it started , all square . |
| 21 | Legend has it that Rhodes , largest of the Dodecanese islands set in the blue Aegean Sea , was home to the sun god Helios … and little wonder given this island 's mild climate and long sun-drenched summer days . |
| 22 | The Doges ' Palace was home to the rulers of Venice for centuries . |
| 23 | Sulgrave Manor is a superb example of a modest manor house and garden of the time of Shakespeare , and was home to the ancestors of George Washington . |
| 24 | There was war to the south , but our sector was quiet . |
| 25 | For here , in 1366 , the future King Henry IV was born ; the son of John of gaunt who had inherited Bolingbroke Castle through his wife , who was heiress to the Lancaster estates . |
| 26 | The very effect of reading was knowledge to the girls . |
| 27 | From 1853 to 1855 he was gardener to the Earl of Southampton at Whittlebury Lodge , Towcester . |
| 28 | Indeed , so close was Mithraism to the cult of Sol Invictus that the two are often confused . |
| 29 | He was bearer to the Mamur Zapt and forgot his place because of his foolish wife . ’ |
| 30 | The wish was father to the thought . |