Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adj] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a ‘ grass-roots ’ level he proposed a series of common councils without statutory duties that were similar in conception to those later established in Scotland . |
| 2 | He placed regular advertisements in a trade journal , Music Hall , listing the troupes and soloists that were available with references to their most prestigious bookings . |
| 3 | Unlike advertising , however , they could be excluded from a definition of mass media because by twentieth-century standards they did not spread their messages quickly and simultaneously , nor to audiences that were large in relation to the communities within which they circulated . |
| 4 | European economies were competitive , rather than complementary , in economic terms , and were all in debt to America . |
| 5 | The march , the first ever organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ) , involved 2,500 protesters and was peaceful from start to finish . |
| 6 | It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers . |
| 7 | In commercial terms the EC accounted for over one-fifth of world trade and was comparable in importance to the USA and Japan . |
| 8 | I never opposed his will but was prompt in obedience to his orders . |