Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling . |
| 2 | The villagers , tired now , were bringing their festivities to an end and streaming back across the green to the tavern or to their homes in search of other pleasures . |
| 3 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 4 | If the bonnie banks of Scotland were to open their accounts to the world , there would be a run on the pound and some of the country 's most famous clubs would collapse with embarrassment . |
| 5 | On the patio , some Italian children were rehearsing their contribution to the show being put on for parents that evening . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher confirmed in the Commons that ministers were reconsidering their opposition to a sustained campaign by an all-party group of MPs . |
| 7 | The Commission held a hearing in Brussels on 21 November last stating that , as part of their wish to harmonise copyright and neighbouring rights throughout the EC , they were turning their attention to the question of droit de suite . |
| 8 | The hill peoples were sending their representatives to a gathering at Panglong in the Shan States . |
| 9 | To the Pharisees , who were blind to the evidence before their eyes , and were postponing their hopes to the future , our Lord responded , ‘ No one will say , ‘ Look , here it is ! ’ or , ‘ There it is ! ’ because the Kingdom of God is within you ’ ( Luke 17:21 ) . |
| 10 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |
| 11 | In my compartment two Frenchmen and a Spaniard were losing their pay to a tiny Glaswegian who excelled at poker ; he had already won most of the hands and was trying to explain in broad Scottish that he was open to credit arrangements . |
| 12 | At the north end of Wenceslas Square , not far from where Palach immolated himself , a pop band and disco-dance group were doing their thing to an audience of enthusiastic youngsters . |
| 13 | All participants were demonstrating their commitment to the philosophy of Climb for the World — One World , One Family , One Nature . |
| 14 | egalitarianism and that how that increased production was seen as the you know , priority , and so perhaps they would want to just I mean it might seem appear that they were changing their policy to a more moderate land reform but this was not an end in itself it was a means to an end in order to increase production which would benefit the population as a whole , so it 's , they still had the same goal |
| 15 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |
| 16 | According to IRNA , another 1,000,000 Iraqi Kurds were making their way to the Iranian border . |
| 17 | Andy and Des were making their way to the 18th tee . |
| 18 | Wedged neatly between his route flying at this period was a rescue operation to collect Gen Sikorski 's staff who were making their way to the South of France , hotly pursued by the Germans . |
| 19 | They were to owe their appointment to the trade union 's and the owner 's representatives on the board ; and , if they could not agree , to the binding decision of an independent commission . |
| 20 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 21 | Tino Savvas said : ‘ The problems with delivery reliability were because customers were stretching our capacity to the limit . |
| 22 | His research work at the university 's petroleum warfare department led indirectly to him joining Esso , and within weeks he was faced with one of the many challenges that were to punctuate his rise to the top of the industry . |
| 23 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 24 | Grace , who was purling in the front circle , gathered he was drawing their attention to the war and the number of dead and maimed . |
| 25 | ‘ But he knew I was pledging my honour to the king 's peace . |
| 26 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 27 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 28 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 29 | She was pushing his body to the limits of its endurance to divert and ease the strain on his spirit . |
| 30 | John Weston , leader of the IAAF team of doctors , said the Kenyan star had declined a random test and he was forwarding his report to the IAAF for action . |