Example sentences of "been a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , however , there has been a reversion to analysis of pre-historic artefacts in terms of their contextual social relations , as semiotic and ideological representations , with respect both to users in the past and for us today ( e.g. Hodder ed. 1982 ; Miller and Tilley eds 1984 ) . |
| 2 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 3 | Entrusted to look after the fire or the children , let alone to go hunting , the myopic savage would have been a menace to group security . |
| 4 | There had been a trip to Yorkshire in April and another to the British Aquarist Festival in November , both of which had been enjoyed by all . |
| 5 | Indeed the whole house would have been a paradise to Mrs Mantini . |
| 6 | It had been a surprise to Loxford for ten years , previously accustomed , as rural communities are , to modesty and neatness in the pastoral dwelling-house . |
| 7 | That departure to university of a man far less intelligent than himself had been a blow to Stephen . |
| 8 | Mrs Doran 's husband had been a loser to Phipps , both at golf and in the bedroom . |
| 9 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 10 | ‘ It must have been a shock to Miss Garland , coming so soon after her father 's death . ’ |
| 11 | That must have been a shock to Place . ’ |
| 12 | It was obvious that the sight of him had been a shock to Tamar 's brother , but Davis was convinced that he had never encountered George before . |
| 13 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |
| 14 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 15 | Soviet interest in foreign technology therefore has not been a response to detente , but to perceptions of internal need , and increases in trade flows have not always coincided with greater political relaxation . |
| 16 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 17 | It could not have been easy for these men to deliver flocks and herds safely to their destination and the advent of motor transport must have been a blessing to animals . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all . |
| 19 | It had been a gift to Tsar Nicholas from Queen Victoria . |
| 20 | His passionate encounter with Tro had been a reaction to horror and danger , and they both knew it . |
| 21 | He 'd married the widow and been a father to Rakovsky 's children . |
| 22 | The electoral system has been a barrier to realignment . |
| 23 | Her only brush with the topic so far had been a visit to Mortimer 's Hole at Nottingham Castle . |
| 24 | The bird had been a monster to Lee . |
| 25 | From Rolls-Royce through BRM and on to Lotus , Tony Rudd 's colourful 53-year career has been a monument to engineering brilliance . |
| 26 | Getting readers to renew the subscription can-celled on holiday in August had long been a challenge to circulation managers . |