Example sentences of "was [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This effect was dur to the shorter MCTT after miglitol ( 107 ( 14 ) minutes ) as well as after acarbose ( 106 ( 13 ) ) in comparison with placebo ( 139 ( 18 ) minutes ) ( paired t =2.16 , p=0.023 and paired t =1.98 , p=0.032 respectively ) . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The last published pay figure for a governor of the Bank of England was £198,546 to Mr Leigh-Pemberton for the year ending February 28 , 1992 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nurse was link to Ward 4 deaths , says QC |
| 7 | Erm , I think it was March to about July something like that . |
| 8 | At the end of the fifteenth century , one enterprising family realised there was money to be made from all the foreign merchants , and turned their house into sort of prototype stock exchange . |
| 9 | Simply , there was money to be made in research and development ( both public and private ) in these strongly growing economies . |
| 10 | The BBC recognised early on that there was money to be made from selling archive programmes on video . |
| 11 | There was money to be made out of the destruction of pests in a country place . |
| 12 | I was a rich man now , but what use was money to me ? |
| 13 | Even when the recession hit there was money to be made from liquidations and restructurings. is Britain 's largest law firm and occupies a plush new building in the city . |
| 14 | Still , it was a growing market and there was money to be made there somewhere by somebody . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 16 | ‘ That was damage to the churn . ’ |
| 17 | This could arise if an aircraft crashed and there was damage to houses in the area . |
| 18 | Mr Mellish said it was believed relatively small explosive devices were used and the aim of the bombers was damage to property and to achieve publicity , rather than to cause injuries . |
| 19 | The storm also caused a landslide in the Tywyn and Bryncrug area of South Meirionnydd , where there was damage to property and part of the track of the narrow gauge Tal y Llyn Railway . |
| 20 | But Sylvia would be waiting for him , later , and there was Crump to be re-engaged . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 23 | It was 9in to 10in long and it had a jagged edge like a saw blade . ’ |
| 24 | Gregorio was apprentice to Bernini , and — ’ |
| 25 | What was Wroxham to me or me to Wroxham ? |
| 26 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 27 | Christina Muir : ‘ Coming from a small boarding school evacuated and decimated by the war it was paradise to be with girls with intellectual interests . |
| 28 | On the contrary , there was attempts to the life of our Emir during the Iraq/Iran war because we were taking relatively trying to be neutral there , and there was a bomb attack on him , and he personally survived it , a few others died , and it had to do directly with the Iran/Iraq war . |
| 29 | Before the law received Royal Assent there was resistance to its implementation . |
| 30 | The fact that there was resistance to these proposals was entirely predictable . |