Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 2 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 3 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 4 | The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight . |
| 5 | ‘ If foreign nationals in the cast were speaking to each other , we had to get them to speak English . |
| 6 | telephone conversation took place , as if two deaf people were talking to each other on a rowdy main road , but fragments of conversation filtered through as Frau Nordern repeated what Karl , presumably , was saying . |
| 7 | When the noises were recorded , it was found that much of the call was at frequencies too low for us to hear , and it seems likely that the females were responding to this infrasound . |
| 8 | And I 'm only putting Helena and Emma were talking to each other on the bus . |